| Evidence: | 'Translation enclosed, very literal, for the fun’s sake.
I have taken stock/made acquaintance of the ["Treatise of Marine Works" which you have published in 1874 […] Kindly accept, Mister and dear colleague, the expression of my sentiments of perfect estime. (signed) Fred Andre'.
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between Apr 1877 and May 1877 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | n/a |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| 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: | Frederic Andre |
| Title: | letter |
| Genre: | Technology |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 26678 | |
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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: | 207 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 469, To his Father, [? Late April or early May 1877], [Edinburgh]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The foregoing 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. 207, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26678, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| The text read is a fairly lengthy letter in French from a French engineer, Frederic Andre, thanking Thomas Stevenson for a copy of his "A Treatise of Marine Works", published in 1874, which he praises and offers to translate into French. RLS has read and translated the letter and encloses a copy of this translation in Letter 469. I haven’t found anything corresponding exactly to the title of the publication in question as given in Letter 469. An article on “The Design and Construction of Harbours” by a Thomas Stevenson was published in Edinburgh in 1874, reprinted and enlarged from the article “Harbours” in the eighth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica |
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