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

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Katharine de Mattos : unknown

'?Miss Griffin? is capital stuff; not the least dull, a little ragged and loquacious, of course. Go on. Give me more types in the same style; and when I have the lot , I?ll tell you about the?[end of extract]'.

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

Katharine de Mattos : Included "Miss Griffin"?

'My dear Katharine, I have gone over your paper at last (I would have done it sooner, had I found the time) [?].'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Sheet, RLS calls it "your paper".

Katharine de Mattos : unknown

'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and that sentence begins admirably, although its feet are of clay.'

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

Katharine de Mattos : unknown

'[?] it was that paper of yours that made me think of the book[Baudelaire's "Petits Poemes en Prose"]' (see RED ID18015)

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Sheet, Referred to here by RLS as "that paper of yours".

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