Record Number: 14585

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have been reading...Calvin.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

4 May 1874

Country:

Scotland

Time

morning

Place:

city: Swanston
specific address: Swanston Cottage, Swanston, Lothianburn, Edinburgh

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:

Aspiring writer, intermittent law student

Religion:

(Wavering) Church of Scotland

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Calvin

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

14585

Source:

Print

Author:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Editor:

Bradford A. Booth

Title:

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume Two, April 1874- July 1879

Place of Publication:

New Haven and London

Date of Publication:

1994

Vol:

2

Page:

3

Additional Comments:

Additional editor: Ernest Mehew Letter 268, [29 April-4 May 1874], from RLS to Frances Sitwell

Citation:

Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume Two, April 1874- July 1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 3, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14585, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Letter 268 consists of 6 parts, the day of the week or the time of day of writing being given by RLS, the date, month and year conjectured by the editors. The editors ascribe this part of the letter to Monday [4 May]