Record Number: 18143

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'This is E. A. Poe: Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of "Mother," Therefore by that dear name I long have called you- You who are [italics]more than mother unto me, And fill my heart of hearts.[end italics] [?]'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 11 Jan 1875

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edinburgh
specific address: [17 Heriot Row]

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 and intermittent law student

Religion:

Uncommitted.

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:

Edgar Allan Poe

Title:

To my Mother.

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

In Poe's Works, edited by J.H. Ingram (1874)?

Provenance

unknown
Perhaps a review copy.

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18143

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:

102

Additional Comments:

Letter 350, To Frances Sitwell, Monday [11 January 1875]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The date 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. 102, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18143, accessed: 21 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

p. 102, Editors? Note 1 to Letter 350 reads: ?Poe?s ?To my Mother? (addressed in fact to his mother-in-law).? RLS quotes the first part of the sonnet, written in 1849. On p. 83, part of Editors? Note 10 reads: ?RLS reviewed the first two volumes of J.H. Ingram?s edition of Poe?s Works containing "The Tales" (1874) in "The Academy", 2 January 1875.?. For RLS and Poe?s poetry see also Letters 334 and 361.