Record Number: 28282
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Yes, I think David Douglas would be all right; so Massons, Frasers, Skeltons and Coggie Ferrier. I’ll see if I can think of any others;[…].'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 22 Dec 1877 and Jan 1878
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: [Dieppe or 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: Title:n/a
Genre:Ephemera, Personal letter from his mother to RLS.
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28282
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:234
Additional Comments:
Letter 499, To his Mother, [Early January 1878], [Dieppe or 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. 234, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28282, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
Acc. to Note 1 to Letter 496, RLS's mother recorded that he was to leave home for London on 22 December [1877] at night.
RLS seems to be answering an RE, a recent letter from his mother in which she consults him about the composition of a list of friends/acquaintances (guest list? Names of suitable recipients of author’s copies, RLS’s or his father’s?).
