Record Number: 28281

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am at the Inland Voyage again [...] The Preface shall stand over, as you suggest, until the last and then, sir, we shall see.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between Dec 1877 and 1 Jan 1878

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Dieppe?
Hötel des Étrangers

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:

France

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Sidney Colvin

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel, Personal and business letter to RLS from Colvin.

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

See Additional Comments.

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28281

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:

233

Additional Comments:

Letter 498, To Sidney Colvin, 1 January 1878, Hötel des Étrangers, Dieppe. Co-editor Ernest Mehew.

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. 233, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28281, accessed: 17 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Letters 494 and 495, to Colvin, are dated [December 1877] in the Booth and Mehew edition.
The implication here is that RLS is responding to a point concerning An Inland Voyage raised by Colvin in a letter recently received.
According to the Editors' heading and Note to Letter 498,the text published here is taken from Colvin's Galleys, Silverado and was published (with expurgations) in Colvin's 5-volume The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, vol. II, 39-40 (1924), of the Tusitala edition of RLS's works.