Record Number: 18017
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have found what should interest you dear. A paper in which I had sketched out my life, before I knew you. Here is the exact copy even to spelling.[?]'
Century:1850-1899
Date:14 Nov 1874
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
specific address: In 1874 [17 Heriot Row]; ? in 1873
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(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Desiderata
Genre:A tentative project for RLS's own future.
Form of Text:Manuscript: Sheet
Publication DetailsLater published in "The Lark", June 1895. There is a facsimile in "The Bookman Extra Number" (1913), 56.
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:18017
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:81
Additional Comments:
Letter 333, To Frances Sitwell, Saturday [14 November 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. 81, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18017, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
Editors? Note 1, p. 81, to the words ?a paper?: "The MS of "Desiderata" is in Rosenbach [i.e. the Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia]. It was reproduced in facsimile by William Doxey of San Francisco in 1895 and published in "The Lark" June 1895.There is a facsimile in "The Bookman Extra Number" (1913), 56.?
