Evidence: | 'My dear Henley,
Sketches
III line 11. More laughter comes from them than moan.
IV As a whole.
VII Both quatrains.
VIII line 2. Extemporising a becoming gloom.
IX Well, I don’t like it.
Portraits
I The sestett[sic] is not up to the mark, I think, but I don’t press this.
IV Is a little broken, and the phrasing is a little imbecile.
VII I don’t like.
IX The first quatrain, and the words "does not feel his place" in the second.
There is positively all I find….'
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 May 1875 and 31 May 1875 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Edinburgh county: Lothian specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | William Ernest Henley |
Title: | Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Probably proof. |
Publication details: | 1875, Cornhill Magazine. |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) Probably a proof copy to be returned (with the letter?) to the poet. |
Record ID: | 20134 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 137 | |
Additional comments: | Letter 390, To W.E. Henley, [May 1875], Swanston Cottage. 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-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 137, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20134, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Editors’ Note 1 to the heading “Sketches” on p. 137 reads: “RLS is commenting on Henley’s ‘Hospital Outlines’ but since these were accepted by the "Cornhill" in April and RLS did not go to Swanston until May, he is presumably commenting on the proof.” Editors’ Note 2 to the end of the text given for Letter 390 reads: “The MS was pasted down and framed by Lord Guthrie, and the rest cannot be read.” |
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