Record Number: 27584
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Sunday morning, as I was out getting chocolate, I found two new manifestoes on the walls. One from a private person, editor of a Radical journal, calling on the people to be calm, and rest on the weight of their majority. The other, a declaration of the President�s, which made me so mad that I could have broken his head if he had been within my reach. It was written, I firmly believe, with the intention of driving on the Republicans to extremities, and shook the cat in the air with a sort of paternal menace, that must have been maddening to the Opposition.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:14 Oct 1877
Country:France
Timemorning
Place:city: Paris
Type of Experience(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:Writer
Religion:Uncommitted
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author:By or on behalf of Edme-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon
Title:[political manifesto]
Genre:Politics
Form of Text:Print: Poster, election posters.
Publication Details14 October 1877
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:27584
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:224
Additional Comments:
Letter 486, To his Parents, [15 October 1877], [Paris]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The foregoing material 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. 224, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27584, accessed: 05 February 2026
Additional Comments:
Evidence passage refers to posters sighted by RLS in the morning of the day of the first round of the 1877 French legislative election. See Letter 485 and ID 27500.
