| Evidence: | I don?t know whether I imagined it, but I thought there seemed something wrong between us this afternoon.[?] Perhaps, however, you may think I have behaved nastily to you; and it just occurs to me that I have never explained how I did not answer your proposal about B. of A. I did not get your letter, until the Sunday; I then wrote immediately but, as it was so much too late, didn?t say anything about it. This was rude; and I am sorry, I did so; it shall not occur again.
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 29 Jun 1874 and 31 Jul 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Swanston specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh |
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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: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Bob Stevenson |
| Title: | letter |
| Genre: | Personal letter |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 17377 | |
| 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: | 34-5 | |
| Additional comments: | Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Letter 297, Monday [? July 1874],To Bob Stevenson. The 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. 34-5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17377, accessed: 21 March 2023 | |
| Note 1 on p. 34 says that the editors? conjectural date for Letter 297 ?fits the fact that Bob, convalescing at Bridge of Allan, wrote on 29 June 1874 asking RLS to join him there?. The note adds that ?the handwriting and notepaper also fit?. |
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