Record Number: 17360
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Also I have been hearing ?Adelaide? many times; O! That is all I can say..'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 16 Jul 1874
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Listener: 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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Adelaide
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication DetailsBeethoven's very popular setting of the German words by Matthisson (1761-1831) had first appeared as Opus 46 in 1796.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17360
Source: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:31
Additional Comments:
Section dated Thursday [16 July 1874] of Letter 294, To Frances Sitwell. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Date in square brackets has been added 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. 31, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17360, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
RLS is lost for words, seemingly overwhelmed by the thought of the passionate love-song?s musical beauty and/or the application of the sense of its German and/or English WORDS to his feelings for Mrs Sitwell.
