Record Number: 13596
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
"Do you think Job's birthday was the 29th of February 'As for that night let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.' [....] 'Where wast though when I laid the foundations of the earth? ... Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?' And so on to the end:'Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty answer him? He that reproveth God, let him answer it.'"
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Sep 1868 and 30 Sep 1868
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Wick
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:13 Nov 1850
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:student
Religion:Church of Scotland
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Letter to Bob Stevenson
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Bible
Genre:Bible
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:13596
Source: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:1
Page:152
Additional Comments:
Additional editor Ernest Mehew
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 152, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=13596, accessed: 18 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Presumably RLS was reading from copy of Bible, Book of Job (3:6, 38:4, 40:2), as he wrote out the quotations.
