| Evidence: | 'I read the preface once a day about, tell Nestor so much.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | From: 15 Jan 1878 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Paris | ||||||||||
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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: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | Letter 501, also To his Mother, is dated by the editors [?15 or 17 January 1878]. |
| Author: | Thomas Stevenson |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Ephemera, Technology |
| Form of Text: | |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 28341 | |
| 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: | 236 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 502, To his Mother, [January 1878], [Paris]. 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. 236, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28341, accessed: 31 March 2023 | |
| For the preface, see Letter 499 and ID 28283. Editors’ Note 2 to Letter 502 reads: “In his essay on his father RLS notes that ‘in Germany he had been called “the Nestor of lighthouse illuminations”’. |
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