Record Number: 15147
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Mme Garschine's was rather sad and gave me the blues a bit'.
Century:1850-1899
Date:14 May 1874
Country:Scotland
Timedaytime
Place:city: Swanston (according to editors)
specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh
(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:Aspiring writer, 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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:letter
Genre:Letter received by RLS probably shortly before he wrote Letter 272.
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:15147
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:7
Additional Comments:
Co-editor Ernest Mehew
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 7, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15147, accessed: 17 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter 272, to Frances Sitwell, dated Thursday (i.e. [14 May] in letter of Wednesday-Sunday, dated by eds as [13-17 May 1874].
According to editorial note 1, this sentence refers to a 7-page letter to RLS from Mme Garschine, dated 7 May 1874. She was a Russian friend of RLS, met at Menton, and the aunt and adoptive mother of Pella, who wrote the letter quoted just before.
