| Evidence: | 'My dear Colvin, Thanks for your pencilations. One thing only, remains; how am I to call the followers of Orso and Manfredi.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 7 Jul 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh county: Lothian specific address: [Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn] |
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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: | Sidney Colvin |
| Title: | annotations |
| Genre: | annotations |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter, annotations |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 20730 | |
| 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: | 148 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 402, To Sidney Colvin, [7 July 1875], [Swanston]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The material 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. 148, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20730, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| The reading experience is of the marked MS of RLS's story “When the Devil Was Well”. The Editors’ Note 1, on p.148,to Letter 402 reads: “In his marginal comments on the MS of ‘When the Devil Was Well’, Colvin suggested that RLS’s ‘Duke Orsino’ be renamed ‘Count Orso’ and ‘Bartolomeo della Scala’ renamed ‘’Ercole Manfredi’.” |
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