Record Number: 27421
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'His Majesty, once more disobeying the Dook's orders, had granted to some creature an Irish peerage. 'I observe' wrote Arthur (I quote from memory), that your Majesty has been misinformed. I shall reserve the patent until I have an opportunity of learning your Majesty's pleasure upon it!!' O the groans of George, who knew his man, and whimpered under the rod.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:8 Feb 1882
Country:Switzerland
Timen/a
Place:specific address: Hotel and Pension Buol
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:atheist
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Switzerland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Life of George IV
Genre:Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailspublished 1881
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:27421
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford Booth
Title:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:3
Page:279
Additional Comments:
additional editor Ernest Mehew. letter to W E Henley.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, (New Haven and London, 1994), 3, p. 279, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27421, accessed: 03 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Footnote Booth/ Mehew, p 279, suggests that RLS was evidently reading Fitzgerald's biography in which the anecdote is recorded.
