Evidence: | 'I can?t be more satisfactory [= about his travel plans]. I think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near here "[italics] D.V. Thomas [end italics], Purveyor of pure new milk?. Imagine anyone trusting to a man with so conditional a name for anything under heaven!' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 16 Jun 1874 and 7 Jul 1874 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Hampstead county: London |
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Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
Religion: | Church of Scotland (wavering) |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | D.V. Thomas |
Title: | advertisement |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture, Tradesman's advertisement. |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 17257 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
Title: | Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 28 | |
Additional comments: | Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Letter 290, To his Mother, Friday [? 7 July 1874], [Hampstead]. Details in square brackets have been added by the editors. |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 28, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17257, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
A joke: the implication of uncertainty suggested to RLS by Mr Thomas's two initials -- D(eo) V(olente) = God Willing -- applies to his own reference in this letter to his unsettled travel plans. |
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