Record Number: 15361
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have received such a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen today; about my ?V. Hugo?. It is accepted.?
Century:1850-1899
Date:16 May 1874
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Swanston
specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh
(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:Aspiring writer and intermittent law student
Religion:Church of Scotland (wavering)
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:letter
Genre:letter
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication DetailsProvenance
owned
Source Information:
Record ID:15361
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:8
Additional Comments:
Co-editor Ernest Mehew. From Letter 272, Wednesday-Sunday [13-17 May 1874], pp. 7-9, to Frances Sitwell; Saturday [16 May 1874].. (I give the Editors' presumed dates in square brackets). The Day-number, Month and Year of the Date of Reading below are also added to the text by the editors).
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 8, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15361, accessed: 04 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Editors? note 3 to page 8 says that Leslie Stephen?s letter mentioned here is reproduced in facsimile in Beinecke IV [presumably the RLS Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and MS Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut] was dated 15 May.
