| Evidence: | 'His Majesty, once more disobeying the Dook's orders, had granted to some creature an Irish peerage. 'I observe' wrote Arthur (I quote from memory), that your Majesty has been misinformed. I shall reserve the patent until I have an opportunity of learning your Majesty's pleasure upon it!!' O the groans of George, who knew his man, and whimpered under the rod.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 8 Feb 1882 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Switzerland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: Hotel and Pension Buol | ||||||||||
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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: | Switzerland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald |
| Title: | Life of George IV |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | published 1881 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 27421 | |
| 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: | 3 | |
| Page: | 279 | |
| Additional comments: | additional editor Ernest Mehew. letter to W E Henley. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 3, p. 279, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27421, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Footnote Booth/ Mehew, p 279, suggests that RLS was evidently reading Fitzgerald's biography in which the anecdote is recorded. |
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