Record Number: 20506
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I say, how nice S.C.’s ‘Walker’ is.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 29 Jun 1875
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
county: Lothian
specific address: [Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn] ?
(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:Uncommitted.
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: Title:Frederick Walker. In Memoriam.
Genre:Biography, Obituary article.
Form of Text:Print: Given the date of the letter, RLS may have read the article in proof.
Publication DetailsJuly 1875, Cornhill Magazine.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:20506
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:145
Additional Comments:
Letter 398, To Frances Sitwell, Tuesday [29 June 1875], [Swanston]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew, The material 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. 145, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20506, accessed: 19 May 2024
Additional Comments:
On p.145, the Editors’ Note 2 to this letter reads: “Colvin’s article, ‘Frederick Walker. In Memoriam’ in the July Cornhill. Frederich Walker (1840-750, painter and prolific book-illustrator.”
