| Evidence: | 'This [i.e. letter] had been lying a long while. I must send it off in proof I didn’t quite forget you. I saw yours to the Baronick, and was surprised at one piece of intelligence therein. Mine are always married before I begin, which simplifies things.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: Nov 1876 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Uncommitted |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Charles Baxter |
| Title: | letter |
| Genre: | Unknown, And personal matters concerning the addressee ("the Baronick"). |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 24420 | |
| 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: | 196 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 456, To Charles Baxter, [? November 1876] [this date has been added by the editors], 17 Heriot Row. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. |
| 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. 196, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24420, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| “The Baronick” (Baronet?) would appear to refer by title or nickname to a friend of RLS and Charles Baxter, to whom the latter had seemingly written a letter that RLS had had sight of (“I saw yours…”) and whose content seems to have alluded to affairs of the heart, causing RLS to remark here that his were always with married women (he being currently in transit from Mrs Frances Sitwell to Mrs Fanny Osbourne). |
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