Record Number: 20730
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'My dear Colvin, Thanks for your pencilations. One thing only, remains; how am I to call the followers of Orso and Manfredi.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:7 Jul 1875
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
county: Lothian
specific address: [Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn]
(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: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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:annotations
Genre:annotations
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter, annotations
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:20730
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:148
Additional Comments:
Letter 402, To Sidney Colvin, [7 July 1875], [Swanston]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The 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. 148, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20730, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
The reading experience is of the marked MS of RLS's story “When the Devil Was Well”. The Editors’ Note 1, on p.148,to Letter 402 reads: “In his marginal comments on the MS of ‘When the Devil Was Well’, Colvin suggested that RLS’s ‘Duke Orsino’ be renamed ‘Count Orso’ and ‘Bartolomeo della Scala’ renamed ‘’Ercole Manfredi’.”
