Record Number: 28857
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'My dear people, I shall tell you as soon as I am able to come over: and I can say no more. How can I? I hope it will be very soon, but it cannot be immediately. I did not answer my father’s proposal by return of post, as he asked, because I hoped I should be able to give a more definite and satisfactory answer; but I cannot yet.
I am so glad to hear that Janie is better. What a pitiful thing about Chalmers! The bulletin looks bad. I hope he will pull round; for he is one of the best people going.'
1850-1899
Date:Between 17 Feb 1878 and 22 Feb 1878
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Paris
Hotel Canterbury, 44 Boulevard Haussmann
(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:Margaret Isabella and Thomas Stevenson
Title:[letter]
Genre:Ephemera, Personal letter or letters from his parents to RLS.
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28857
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:244
Additional Comments:
Letter 515, To his Parents, Friday [22 February 1878], [Hotel Canterbury], 44 Boulevard Haussmann [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. 244, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28857, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
RLS is referring to points raised in a letter or letters recently received by him from his parents. Editors’ Note 2 to Letter 515 reads: “On 1 February MIS [Margaret Isabella Stevenson] recorded: ‘Janey Mackintosh has inflammation of the lungs’; on 16 February she wrote: ‘Janey better.’” Jane Mackintosh, born Stevenson, was RLS’s cousin, married to William Mackintosh, later Lord Kyllachy. Editors’ Note 3 to Letter 515 reads: George Paul Chalmers (see Letter 467, n.2) was attacked and robbed when leaving a dinner of the Scottish Academy on 15 February, and died of his injuries on the 20th. TS [Thomas Stevenson] went to the funeral.” According to the brief Note 2 to Letter 467 George Paul Chalmers (1836-78) was a Scottish painter.