Record Number: 28343

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am so sorry to hear you have trouble too; fortunately there is no need to bother about Paris, things having been comfortably arranged without. And indeed F. is too unwell to bear a visitor at all, even her; so it would have had to be given up at any rate. Thanks all the same. Please send me the specimen page. I am afraid to write to Paul myself lest I should spoil the bargain. But money I must have, as soon as may be; if you like I will write to him and take the bother off your shoulders; yes, I will; I ought.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

From: 1 Jan 1878

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Paris

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:

Sidney Colvin

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Fiction, Ephemera, Personal and business letter to RLS from Colvin.

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28343

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:

237

Additional Comments:

Letter 504, To Sidney Colvin, [January 1878], [Paris]. 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. 237, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28343, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Letter 498, also to Colvin, is dated 1 January 1878 by RLS.
RLS is evidently replying here to points raised in a personal and business letter recently received from Colvin. He refers to arrangements for the publication by Kegan Paul of his An Inland Voyage, as already mentioned in Letter 498 to Colvin, dated 1 January 1878 by RLS. “F.” is Fanny Osbourne.