Record Number: 17572
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 9 Sep 1874 and 13 Sep 1874
Country:North Wales
Timedaytime
Place:city: Barmouth
county: Gwynedd
specific address: Cors y Gedol Arms
other location: Garden
(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:North Wales
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Unknown
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsquarto
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17572
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:52
Additional Comments:
Letter 313, To Sidney Colvin, [13 September 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-July 1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 52, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17572, accessed: 03 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Identity of the ?aged quartos? not indicated in text or footnotes. Perhaps they were just "old books"? related to RLS's current writings and/or his law studies.