| Evidence: | 'I have found what should interest you dear. A paper in which I had sketched out my life, before I knew you. Here is the exact copy even to spelling.[?]' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 14 Nov 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh specific address: In 1874 [17 Heriot Row]; ? in 1873 |
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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) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Title: | Desiderata |
| Genre: | A tentative project for RLS's own future. |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Sheet |
| Publication details: | Later published in "The Lark", June 1895. There is a facsimile in "The Bookman Extra Number" (1913), 56. |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 18017 | |
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| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 81 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 333, To Frances Sitwell, Saturday [14 November 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The date in square brackets has been added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 81, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18017, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Editors? Note 1, p. 81, to the words ?a paper?: "The MS of "Desiderata" is in Rosenbach [i.e. the Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia]. It was reproduced in facsimile by William Doxey of San Francisco in 1895 and published in "The Lark" June 1895.There is a facsimile in "The Bookman Extra Number" (1913), 56.? |
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