Record Number: 17257
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I can?t be more satisfactory [= about his travel plans]. I think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near here "[italics] D.V. Thomas [end italics], Purveyor of pure new milk?. Imagine anyone trusting to a man with so conditional a name for anything under heaven!'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 16 Jun 1874 and 7 Jul 1874
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Hampstead
county: London
(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:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:advertisement
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture, Tradesman's advertisement.
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:17257
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:28
Additional Comments:
Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Letter 290, To his Mother, Friday [? 7 July 1874], [Hampstead]. Details in square brackets have been added 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. 28, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17257, accessed: 23 April 2024
Additional Comments:
A joke: the implication of uncertainty suggested to RLS by Mr Thomas's two initials -- D(eo) V(olente) = God Willing -- applies to his own reference in this letter to his unsettled travel plans.
