Record Number: 21492
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'From time to time, Lang writes charming articles in the "Daily News": witness one, a week or so past, on Montaigne: it was a little gem.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 23 Sep 1875 and 15 Oct 1875
Country:Scotland?
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh?
Type of Experience(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:Writer
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:[article on Montaigne]
Genre:Ephemera, Newspaper editorial occasioned by the sale of Montaigne's library.
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Details23 September 1875 in the "Daily News".
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:21492
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:161
Additional Comments:
Letter 419, To Alfred Dowson, [Early October 1875], 17 Heriot Row. 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. 161, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21492, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
The text was published 23 September 1875 and read by RLS on or soon after that date (i.e between 23 Sept 75 and [early October 75]. The Editors' Note 2 to "a little gem" in Letter 419 reads:"An unsigned editorial in the "Daily News" of 23 September occasioned by the sale of Montaigne's library."
