| Evidence: | 'I met a rum old army doctor, called Lewins, who sent me a paper of his, full of matter that would not be very gratifying to the elect: In which paper he has the following: "Healthy sensation .. is thus our only Heaven: morbid sensation, varying as it does from ennui or general malaise to mental and corporeal agony and anguish, our only Hell".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 17 Mar 1874 | ||||||||||
| 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: | Robert Lewins |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Philosophy, Medicine |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 20398 | |
| 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: | 493 | |
| Additional comments: | additional editor Ernest Mehew. Letter to Sidney Colvin. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 493, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20398, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| It is impossible to identify the exact paper that Dr Robert Lewins had sent RLS to read and from which he quotes. |
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