Record Number: 28861
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I send you a characteristic letter from John Collier, which please keep for me. I suspected Pollock from the first; but did not think Collier himself had had a hand in it. Pollock, let me inform you, is the son of Lady Pollock, whoever she may be; and Collier is the son of Baron (I think they call him) Collier − no, I think it’s Sir Robert: anyway he’s a judge. Ahem.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 23 Feb 1878 and 27 Feb 1878
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Paris
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:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:n/a
Genre:Fiction, Drama, Personal letter to RLS from Collier
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28861
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:246
Additional Comments:
Letter 517, To his Mother, [27 February 1878], [Paris]. 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. 246, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28861, accessed: 19 May 2024
Additional Comments:
On p. 246, Note 3 to Letter 517, To his Mother, reads: “John Collier (1850-1934), painter and writer on art, son of the distinguished lawyer Sir Robert Porrett Collier, who did not become Baron Monkswell until 1885. In a letter to RLS of 23 February, Collier apologised for the fact that he and W.H. Pollock had written a play for family performance loosely based on ‘The Sire de Malétroit’s Door’. MIS records that she and her husband saw the play − A Romance of Venice − performed at 13 Lowndes Square on 27 March. Walter Herries Pollock (1850-1926), journalist and author, sub-editor and later (1883-94) editor of The Saturday Review. He was the son of Sir William Frederick Pollock, second baronet, another distinguished lawyer whose wife, Juliet Creed (died 1899), was deeply interested in the theatre.”
