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Record Number: 27589

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'"The Omadhaun" was very funny by the Lord; I saw Constable who said both Payn and Kegan Paul had very highly lauded you.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: Dec 1877

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edinburgh
county: Lothian

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Robert Louis Stevenson

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:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Ernest Henley

Title:

'The Omadhaun at the Queen's'.

Genre:

Drama, Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical, Account of an Irish melodrama by H.P. Grattan.

Publication Details

In "London", 1 Dec., 1877.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27589

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

227

Additional Comments:

Letter 491, To W.E. Henley, [December 1877], 17 Heriot Row. 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. 227, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27589, accessed: 05 February 2026

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Additional Comments:

Editors� Note 4 to Letter 491 reads: ��The Omadhaun at the Queen�s�, Henley�s amusing account in "London" (1 December 1877) of the absurdities and complexities of the Irish melodrama by H.P. Grattan, which opened on 24 November 1877.� James Payn (1830-98) was a novelist, editor (1859-74) of [italics]Chambers Journal[end talics] and (1882-96) of the [italics]Cornhill[end italics].. Charles Kegan Paul (1828-1902), author and publisher; published [italics]An Inland Voyage[end italics], [italics]Travels with a Donkey[end italics] and [italics]Virginibus Puerisque[end italics].