the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

Margaret Isabella; Thomas Stevenson : [letter]

'My dear Father and Mother, Your letters received with thanks. My book is being printed by Thorne, Stiff, and Payne, among other people. Is that not appropriate for a neuralgic author? The pain has decamped once more and gone to my shoulder blade where it hurts worse; but is out of the way of the lungs anyway. I had another worry with the doctor today; he gives me a clean bill; but says I must take care for a little […]. What does my father mean by the "references to the book"? What book? and where? And how? And what am I to do with them? […] Do explain about the "references to the book" […].'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

Click check box to select all entries on this page: