Record Number: 28345
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Have signed and sent off agreement with Paul.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: Jan 1878
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Paris
specific address: 29 rue des Abbesses, Montmartre.
(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:Writer
Religion:Uncommitted
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:n/a
Genre:Agreement (document) with publisher Kegan Paul.
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter, UnknownUnknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:28345
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: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=28345, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter 498, also to Colvin, is dated 1 January 1878 by RLS, and Letter 504 to the same correspondent dated by the editors [January 1878].
Whether or not it was enclosed in Colvin’s letter to which RLS here replies, he must at this point have read the agreement in question.
