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Assoc for Scottish Literature on Nostr: As a student at Edinburgh University, Robert Louis Stevenson was arrested for taking ...

As a student at Edinburgh University, Robert Louis Stevenson was arrested for taking part in a two-day snowball riot between the university & Surgeons’ Hall… although as he was only a spectator (he claimed, successfully) he was let off with a warning

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🎨 : “Snowballing Outside Edinburgh University”, by Samuel Bough (1822–1878). Watercolour on paper, 1853

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/20538

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