| Evidence: | 'I have received such a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen today; about my ?V. Hugo?. It is accepted.? |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 16 May 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Swanston specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh |
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| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
| Religion: | Church of Scotland (wavering) |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Leslie Stephen |
| Title: | letter |
| Genre: | letter |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 15361 | |
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| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 8 | |
| Additional comments: | Co-editor Ernest Mehew. From Letter 272, Wednesday-Sunday [13-17 May 1874], pp. 7-9, to Frances Sitwell; Saturday [16 May 1874].. (I give the Editors' presumed dates in square brackets). The Day-number, Month and Year of the Date of Reading below are also added to the text by the editors). |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 8, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15361, accessed: 19 June 2013 | |
| Editors? note 3 to page 8 says that Leslie Stephen?s letter mentioned here is reproduced in facsimile in Beinecke IV [presumably the RLS Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and MS Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut] was dated 15 May. |
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