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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899?Goodbye. I am at "Knox and the Women", which seems good stuff when I come to put it down; but the arrangement cost me some trouble.?Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson[material on John Knox]Print: Book, Presumably numerous works by, and of general and specific reference to, Knox
1850-1899'Many thanks. I have received the 15 quid, and the "Portfolio" proof.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonNotes on the Movements of Young Children.Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay
1850-1899'I have another letter from Groves [sic] about my ?John Knox?, which is flattering in its way: he is a very gushing and spontaneous person.'Charles Grove Robert Louis StevensonJohn KnoxManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have the "PTFL" proof; and it is very fourth rate, I am afraid; not quite [italics] dead [end italics] you know, but ailing − very ailing.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson"On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places"Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay.
1850-1899'I found the proof of ?John Knox? waiting me here, and have despatched it.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson?John Knox and his Relations with Women??Print: Proof copy.
1850-1899'Piano again disentangled; and some hope, not for it only, but for the tale. I have read it to my mother, who thought it was the only one of mine she had ever heard, that...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevensonunknown "Tale"Manuscript: Unknown, Seems to refer to one of a set of stories that RLS had at various stages of planning and completion, see Letter 329.
1850-1899'I have found what should interest you dear. A paper in which I had sketched out my life, before I knew you. Here is the exact copy even to spelling.[?]'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonDesiderataManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Well, I was at the annual dinner of my old Academy schoolfellows last night. We sat down ten, out of seventy-two.[?] I read them some verses. It is great fun: I always r...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson[unknown verses]Manuscript: Unknown, Probably sheets of paper or pages from a notebook.
1850-1899'I have been working all the morning at my second ?John Knox? proof, and got it pretty right, I fancy.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonJohn Knox and the Controversy about Female RulePrint: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay.
1850-1899'I have also got ?An Autumn Effect? in proof: I shall send it to you to read, I think.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonAn Autumn Effect.Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay.
1850-1899'And now I have taken up an old story, begun years ago; and I have now rewritten all I had written of it then and mean to finish it. What I have lost and gained is odd. A...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonA Country DanceManuscript: Earlier draft of one of his stories.
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Robert Louis StevensonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of whic...Mary Augusta Ward Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
1850-1899'My discouragement is from many causes: among others the re-reading of my Italian story. Forgive me, Colvin, but I cannot agree with you; it seems green fruit to me, if n...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonWhen the Devil Was Well. Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's "Treasure Isl...Charles Causley Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Unknown
1900-1945'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read by H. R. Smith & a critical appreciation of the works...Members of the XII Book ClubRobert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
1900-1945'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read by H. R. Smith & a critical appreciation of the works...John Ridges Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Alfred and Janet RawlingsRobert Louis StevensonApology for IdlersPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Louis Stevenson'Christmas at Sea'Print: Book


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