Record Number: 24420

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'This [i.e. letter] had been lying a long while. I must send it off in proof I didn’t quite forget you. I saw yours to the Baronick, and was surprised at one piece of intelligence therein. Mine are always married before I begin, which simplifies things.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: Nov 1876

Country:

unknown

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

unknown

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Charles Baxter

Title:

letter

Genre:

Unknown, And personal matters concerning the addressee ("the Baronick").

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

n/a

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Source Information:

Record ID:

24420

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:

196

Additional Comments:

Letter 456, To Charles Baxter, [? November 1876] [this date has been added by the editors], 17 Heriot Row. Co-editor Ernest Mehew.

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. 196, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=24420, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

“The Baronick” (Baronet?) would appear to refer by title or nickname to a friend of RLS and Charles Baxter, to whom the latter had seemingly written a letter that RLS had had sight of (“I saw yours…”) and whose content seems to have alluded to affairs of the heart, causing RLS to remark here that his were always with married women (he being currently in transit from Mrs Frances Sitwell to Mrs Fanny Osbourne).