Record Number: 17613
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I found the proof of ?John Knox? waiting me here, and have despatched it.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:18 Oct 1874
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
specific address: 17 Heriot Row
(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 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:?John Knox and his Relations with Women??
Genre:Other religious, Biography
Form of Text:Print: Proof copy.
Publication DetailsThe first of RLS?s 2 essays on the subject of John Knox and women, which would be published in Macmillan?s Magazine in September and October 1875.
Provenanceborrowed (other)
Source Information:
Record ID:17613
Source: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:61
Additional Comments:
Letter 322, To Sidney Colvin, Monday [19 October 1874]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The date 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. 61, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17613, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
P 60, note 1, says that RLS arrived home on Sunday 18 October.
