Record Number: 17528

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'?Miss Griffin? is capital stuff; not the least dull, a little ragged and loquacious, of course. Go on. Give me more types in the same style; and when I have the lot , I?ll tell you about the?[end of extract]'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 30 Sep 1874

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Swanston
specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh and 17 Heriot Row

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 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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Katharine de Mattos

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Unknown, Apparently a draft of a piece of her writing communicated to RLS by his cousin K. de Mattos, born Stevenson.

Form of Text:

Manuscript: UnknownUnknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown
Probably lent for him to give his opinion of her work.

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17528

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:

44

Additional Comments:

Letter 308, To Katharine de Mattos, [Early September 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The date in square brackets has been added by the editors. There is more criticism of Katharine de Mattos?s writing on pp. 61-3, Letter 323, [? October 1874] to the same correspondent.

Citation:

Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 44, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17528, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None