| Evidence: | 'Received Scots Worthies, without notes. However, ‘tis a rotten book, and not worth a rush at best.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Sep 1878 and 8 Sep 1878 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Monastier county: Haute Loire specific address: Chez Morel |
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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: | Writer |
| Religion: | Uncommitted |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | John Howie |
| Title: | The Scots Worthies |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1775; second edition 1781. |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 28997 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 267 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 554, To his Mother, Sunday [8 September 1878], Monastier. 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. 267, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28997, accessed: 19 June 2013 | |
| I have sent to the Allusion database an entry re a passage in Letter 547, To his Mother, Letters 2, p.264 [Late August 1878], [Montargis], asking her to send him at once a copy of “Howie’s Worthies ‘of which there are many editions. Send me one with most notes”. Note 4 on p.264 explains: “John Howie, The Scots Worthies (1775, second edition 1781), a collection of biographies mainly of Covenanters.” |
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