Record Number: 28997

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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

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Monastier
county: Haute Loire
specific address: Chez Morel

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:

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Howie

Title:

The Scots Worthies

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1775; second edition 1781.

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28997

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:

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: 12 May 2024

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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.”