Record Number: 28567

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'My dear Father and Mother, Your letters received with thanks. My book is being printed by Thorne, Stiff, and Payne, among other people. Is that not appropriate for a neuralgic author? The pain has decamped once more and gone to my shoulder blade where it hurts worse; but is out of the way of the lungs anyway. I had another worry with the doctor today; he gives me a clean bill; but says I must take care for a little […]. What does my father mean by the "references to the book"? What book? and where? And how? And what am I to do with them? […] Do explain about the "references to the book" […].'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 15 Jan 1878 and 7 Feb 1878

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Paris
specific address: Hotel Meurice

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:

n/a

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:

Margaret Isabella; Thomas Stevenson

Title:

[letter]

Genre:

Ephemera, Personal letters from his parents to RLS.

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28567

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:

238

Additional Comments:

Letter 507, To his Parents, Thursday night [7 February 1878], Hotel Meurice, 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. 238, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28567, accessed: 14 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

RLS has read, and here is replying to health-related and other queries in, RE letters recently received from his parents.