Record Number: 28344

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Received. The book. Have signed and sent off agreement with Paul. Thanks a million times for your ten pounds. There was absolutely not a penny going.[…] I hope to God the proofs will come soon.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: Jan 1878

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Paris
specific address: 29 rue des Abbesses, Montmartre.

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:

28344

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 505, To Sidney Colvin, [Late anuary 1878], 29 Rue des Abbesses, Montmartre, Paris - My own address. 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=28344, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Letter 498, also to Colvin, is dated 1 January 1878 by RLS, and Letter 504 to the same correspondent, [January 1878].
RLS is evidently replying here to a communication recently received from Colvin, containing a book, ten pounds and possibly the agreement with Kegan Paul about the publication of his An Inland Voyage. As the context suggests that the proofs he is anxiously awaiting are those of that work, it would seem that “the book” refers to something else.