Record Number: 28568
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'My dear Mother, Many thanks for your last kind letter. I am very much better [�]. My book is almost through the press.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 12 Feb 1878 and 13 Feb 1878
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Paris
specific address: Hotel Canterbury, 44 Boulevard Haussmann
(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:[letter]
Genre:Personal letters from his mother to RLS.
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28568
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:239
Additional Comments:
Letter 509, To his Mother, [13 February 1878], Hotel Canterbury, 44 Boulevard Haussmann, [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. 239, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28568, accessed: 06 February 2026
Additional Comments:
RLS has read, and here is replying to a letter apparently received from his mother on 12 or 13 February (see mentions of his states of health in Letters 506, 507 and 508.) �My book� is An Inland Voyage.
