Record Number: 27947

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as you ought: verse five is surely not [italics]quite melodious[end italics]. I confess I like the Sonnet in the last number of the "Review"− the ‘Sonnet to England’.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between Jun 1877 and Dec 1877

Country:

Probably Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Probably Edinburgh
county: Lothian

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:

Writer

Religion:

Uncommitted

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Probably Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Arthur Patchett Martin

Title:

'Noll and Nell'; 'England - 1877'.

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Both (2 poems, one in a book, one in a periodical).

Publication Details

See 11, Additional Comments.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27947

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

228

Additional Comments:

Letter 492, To Arthur Patchett Martin, [December 1877], 17 Heriot Row. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The foregoing 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. 228, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27947, accessed: 18 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Editors’ Note 3 to Letter 492 reads: “Martin’s poem ‘Noll and Nell’ was collected in his "Lays of Today" (Melbourne, 1878); he must have sent RLS an (untraced) periodical publication. Editors’ Note 4 to Letter 492 reads: “‘England − 1877’ in "The Melbourne Review", October 1877.”