Record Number: 15960

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

?You can tell Lang this. I heard from him, and will answer soon.?

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 17 May 1874

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Swanston (according to editors)
specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

13 Nov 1850

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Aspiring writer, 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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Andrew Lang

Title:

letter

Genre:

Letter received by RLS on or before 17 May 1874

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

15960

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

10

Additional Comments:

Co-editor Ernest Mehew. From Letter 273, pp 10-11, to Sidney Colvin, dated by editors [17 May 1874]

Citation:

Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 10, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15960, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None