Record Number: 28983
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I enclose another review. Fancy Eton masters setting my book as a classic to turn into Latin verse.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between May 1878 and 15 Jul 1878
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Barbizon
specific address: Chez Sion
(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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[Book review]
Genre:n/a
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Details1878
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28983
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:260
Additional Comments:
Letter 544, To his Father, Monday 15 July [1878], Chez Siron, Barbizon. 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. 260, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28983, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Note 3 to Letter 544, referring to this passage, reads: “Cf. Letter 668.” On p. 146 of the paperback edition of Claire Harman’s biography of RLS (London: Harper Perennial, 2006) , she refers without giving a reference to “the Eton schoolmaster who set part of the text to be translated into Latin elegiacs."
