| Evidence: | 'Disraeli's, Tulloch's and Greyfriars' addresses were all three excellent; Disraeli's brilliant.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 28 Nov 1873 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Mentone | ||||||||||
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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: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | newspapers |
| Genre: | Sermon, Politics, Ephemera, reports of speeches |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 17973 | |
| 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: | 383 | |
| Additional comments: | additional editor Ernest Mehew. letter to mother, Margaret Stevenson. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 383, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17973, accessed: 16 April 2024 | |
| Mrs Stevenson had sent RLS some newspapers with passages marked in them. RLS here referring to reports of speeches made by Benjamin Disraeli and John Tulloch, and sermons given by the Edinburgh magistrates and Council at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. |
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