Record Number: 28342
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'We have had no cold weather yet for me to take care in. I am well; I am a kind of tea-totaler[sic] and often take nothing but chocolate at night. [...]I have written to Mrs Nisbet; I did so at once. I never heard about the Melvilles; but you did right.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:From: 15 Jan 1878
Country:France
Timen/a
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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:n/a
Genre:Ephemera
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28342
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:236
Additional Comments:
Letter 503, To his Mother, [January 1878], [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. 236, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28342, accessed: 15 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter 501, also To his Mother, is dated by the editors [?15 or 17 January 1878].
RLS is evidently replying here to solicitous inquiries and other points in a personal letter recently received from his mother.
