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Record 20278

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 1 Feb 1874
Country: France
Time: n/a
Place: city: Mentone
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Hay Athole Macdonald
Title: election speech
Genre: Politics, election speech
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20278  
Source - Print  
  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: 471
  Additional comments: additional editor Ernest Mehew. letter to father, Thomas Stevenson.

Citation: Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 471, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20278, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

RLS does not specify where the speech was published, possibly in a newspaper or periodical.

 

 

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