| Evidence: | 'Also I have been hearing ?Adelaide? many times; O! That is all I can say..' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 16 Jul 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Listener: | 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: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Friedrich von Matthisson |
| Title: | Adelaide |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | Beethoven's very popular setting of the German words by Matthisson (1761-1831) had first appeared as Opus 46 in 1796. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17360 | |
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| 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: | 31 | |
| Additional comments: | Section dated Thursday [16 July 1874] of Letter 294, To Frances Sitwell. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Date in square brackets has 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. 31, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17360, accessed: 02 May 2024 | |
| RLS is lost for words, seemingly overwhelmed by the thought of the passionate love-song?s musical beauty and/or the application of the sense of its German and/or English WORDS to his feelings for Mrs Sitwell. |
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