| Evidence: | 'This is E. A. Poe:
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
Therefore by that dear name I long have called you-
You who are [italics]more than mother unto me,
And fill my heart of hearts.[end italics] [?]'
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 11 Jan 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh specific address: [17 Heriot Row] |
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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: | Uncommitted. |
| 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: | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Title: | To my Mother. |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | In Poe's Works, edited by J.H. Ingram (1874)? |
| Provenance: | unknown Perhaps a review copy. |
| Record ID: | 18143 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 102 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 350, To Frances Sitwell, Monday [11 January 1875]. 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. 102, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18143, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| p. 102, Editors? Note 1 to Letter 350 reads: ?Poe?s ?To my Mother? (addressed in fact to his mother-in-law).? RLS quotes the first part of the sonnet, written in 1849. On p. 83, part of Editors? Note 10 reads: ?RLS reviewed the first two volumes of J.H. Ingram?s edition of Poe?s Works containing "The Tales" (1874) in "The Academy", 2 January 1875.?. For RLS and Poe?s poetry see also Letters 334 and 361. |
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