Record Number: 28997
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Received Scots Worthies, without notes. However, ‘tis a rotten book, and not worth a rush at best.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Sep 1878 and 8 Sep 1878
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Monastier
county: Haute Loire
specific address: Chez Morel
(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:The Scots Worthies
Genre:History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1775; second edition 1781.
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28997
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:267
Additional Comments:
Letter 554, To his Mother, Sunday [8 September 1878], Monastier. 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. 267, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28997, accessed: 10 October 2024
Additional Comments:
I have sent to the Allusion database an entry re a passage in Letter 547, To his Mother, Letters 2, p.264 [Late August 1878], [Montargis], asking her to send him at once a copy of “Howie’s Worthies ‘of which there are many editions. Send me one with most notes”. Note 4 on p.264 explains: “John Howie, The Scots Worthies (1775, second edition 1781), a collection of biographies mainly of Covenanters.”