Record Number: 30398
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Let me say that I have read several of your letters published in the Courant, and found them competently done.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: Feb 1879
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Type of Experience(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
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[See below, Additional Comments.]
Genre:History, Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsProbably in the Edinburgh Courant, autumn and winter 1878 (see below, Additional Comments.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:30398
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:296
Additional Comments:
Letter 594, To Charles Robertson, [? Late 1878/early 1879]. [? Edinburgh]. 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. 296, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30398, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Editors’ Note 2 on p. 296 reads: “In the autumn and winter of 1878 the Edinburgh Courant had published reports ‘From the Afghan Frontier’ by a ‘Special Correspondent’. In 1881 Robertson published Kurum, Kabul and Kandahar, being a brief Record of Impressions in Three Campaigns under General Roberts.”
