Evidence: | 'Herewith you receive the rest of Henley’s hospital work. He was much pleased by what you said of him, and asked me to forward these to you for your opinion; the pencil marks are principally Payne’s. One poem at least, the “Spring Sorrow”, which seems to me the most beautiful, I hope you will communicate to Madame. I thank God for this [italics]petit bout de consolation[end italics], that by Henley’s own account, this one more lovely thing in the world is not altogether without some trace of my influence: let me say that I have been something sympathetic which the mother found and contemplated while she yet carried it in her womb. This, in my profound discouragement, is a great thing for me; if I cannot do good work myself, at least, it seems, I can help others better inspired; I am at least a skilful accoucheur.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between Feb 1875 and 19 Jul 1875 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Edinburgh county: Lothian |
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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 (he has now passed his law exams and can devote himself to writing). |
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: | [second series of] Hospital Poems |
Genre: | Poetry, Arts / architecture |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | See 11, Additional Comments. |
Provenance: | borrowed (private library) Entrusted to RLS for his good offices re possible publication. |
Record ID: | 20732 | |
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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: | 150, 152 | |
Additional comments: | Letter 406, To Sidney Colvin, [c. 19 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. 150, 152, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20732, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
On p.150, the Editors’ Note 1 reads: “The MS of the second series of Henley’s Hospital Poems was among Colvin’s papers at the time of his death [which took place in 1927]. According to Anderson, 7 May 1928 (214),” [this reference does not seem to tally with the dates of the “Anderson I-III” item in the Short Titles part of the Sources list of the Booth-Mehew edition of the Correspondence] “ it contains eighteen poems, only nine of which have been published. ‘Spring Sorrow’ eventually became ‘pastoral’(No. XXII in the ‘In Hospital’ section of "A Book of Verses", 1888.” |
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