| Evidence: | 'I have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 26 Sep 1873 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland/England/Europe | ||||||||||
| Time: | afternoon: 4.50 | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: 17 Heriot Row, 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: | writer |
| Religion: | atheist |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland/England/Europe |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Henry Hallam |
| Title: | Constitutional History of England [?] |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17715 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 319 | |
| Additional comments: | additional editor Ernest Mehew. letter to Frances Sitwell. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 319, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17715, accessed: 08 June 2023 | |
| Footnote p 319 Booth/Mehew says 'Probably Henry Hallam's Constitutional History of England (1827) from which RLS quotes in his essay on Knox (Familiar Studies).' |
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