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Record Number: 17422


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have written a review of Lauder?s "Scottish Rivers" for the "Academy" which I think you will like; I should not have done it just now, but I was in the humour ? and I did eat...'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 21 Jul 1874

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: 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


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 and intermittent law student

Religion:

Church of Scotland

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:

Thomas Dick Lauder

Title:

Scottish Rivers

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Scottish Rivers, with Illustrations by the author and a preface by John Brown,M.D., LL.D. Edinburgh: 1874.

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

17422

Source:

Print

Author:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Editor:

Bradford A. Booth

Title:

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879

Place of Publication:

New Haven and London

Date of Publication:

1994

Vol:

2

Page:

36

Additional Comments:

p. 36, Letter 299, To Sidney Colvin, [21 July 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The date 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-July1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 36, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17422, accessed: 17 June 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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