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Monthly Archives: September 2014
You must not expect to hear much from me for the next two weeks
This letter tells of the progress of the Portfolio papers called Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh; and of preparations for the walking tour narrated in Travels with a Donkey. Philip Gilbert Hamerton, editor of the Portfolio and author of many well-known … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged Alais, book, brandy, Calton Hill, companions, Conductor of Roads and Bridges, consolation, dinner party, donkey, Edinburgh Picturesque Notes, engineer, feature of the place, First Clerk of Excise, francs, French, Gard, government official, Greyfriars, Hamerton, Inland Voyage, journey, Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille, love, Marseilles, mildly cheery, mother, Parliament Close, Pentland Hills, Perceiver of the Impost, Poste Restante, price, read, Receiver of Registrations, reviewers, Robert Louis Stevenson, route, rubbish, sea, strained, thin, Villa Quarters, visit, Winter and New Year, young
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A darling, mouse-colour, … costing 65 francs and a glass of brandy
Getting ready for his journey through the Cévennes (22 September – 3 October, 1878), during which … he will write no letter! The engineer is an acquaintance made in Monastier: according to RLS’s notebook, his name was Charles Goguelat (1822-1879, … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged address, afraid, Alais, ânesse, baggage, brandy, cash, Charles Baxter, coin, darling, devil, donkey, driving, Edinburgh Picturesque Notes, enclosures, engineer, francs, free, Gard, Gévaudan, glad, Goguelat, health, jolly, Latin, Lud, lunch, Monastier-sur-Gazeille, Morel’s, mountains, mouse-colour, New Arabian Nights, Newfoundland dog, Poste Restante, postmark, Puy-en-Velay, Robert Louis Stevenson, spirits, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, useful, work
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It is a new form of excess for me; but I think it pays less than any of them
This letter tells of preparations for RLS’s walking tour in the Cevennes (South-Central France), narrated in Travels with a Donkey. He compared Le Monastier, a town of lace-makers, with Scotland, in terms of habits and accent. About the modern ‘Randonnée … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged Alais, biscuits, breakfast, Cevennes, crayfish, excess, extravagant, filet, fleshly tabernacle, France, francs, French Highlands, Gard, Gargantuan, green peas, gudgeons, ham and jelly, Henley, inexpensive, letters, macaroons, meal, melon, Monastier-sur-Gazeille, Mont d’Or cheese, Morel’s, partridge, peach, Poste Restante, Puy-en-Velay, Randonnée Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey
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If they liked that so much, I ought to have given them something better
RLS left for Paris on June 7, 1878, and stayed at a hotel, 304 rue Saint-Jacques, ‘coin de la rue Val-de-Grace’. The following refers to the newspaper criticisms on the Inland Voyage, just then published. [As usual, for correct and … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged An Inland Voyage, better, criticisms, critics, Hôtel du Val de Grâce, mother, odd, Paris, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rue St. Jacques, sell, shame, surprised, vogue
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This little book would never have been written
[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 2, 526.] To Alison Cunningham [Simpson 1898, p. 110] inscription in her copy of An Inland Voyage [Swanston, May 1878.] My dear Cummy, If you had not taken so much … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged Alison Cunningham, An Inland Voyage, author, childhood, Cummy, dedication, evening, ill, little book, night, return, Robert Louis Stevenson, trouble
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If people would remember that all religions are no more than representations of life…
Sidney Colvin had had business in Edinburgh, and had stayed with RLS’s parents in his absence (he was staying in Paris with Fanny Osbourne). RLS’s Inland Voyage was at this time just put into the publisher’s hands. The ‘Crane sketch’ … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged 19th century, An Inland Voyage, cheese, comedies, Crane, cruel, De Musset, Edinburgh, Fall, France, gossip, Greek, Hebrew, inconceivable, kindly, lewd, life, London, luminous, myth, Pan, Paris, religion, representations, river, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shakespeare, Sidney Colvin, sketch
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I wonder if it’s old age?
The Way of the World is a slip by RLS for Anthony Trollope’s novel, The Way we live now, inspired by the financial scandals of the early 1870s. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. … Continue reading
Posted in Senza categoria
Tagged 44 Bd. Haussmann, author, cowardliness, cynical, dissipated, Dolly, fine, genuine, ghastly, heroes, heroines, Hotel Canterbury, Lady Carbury, Lord Nidderdale, meanness, old age, parents, Paris, pen, readable, Robert Louis Stevenson, spoiled, Trollope, Way of the World, Way we live now, wild, young men
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People must be themselves, I suppose
In 1875, Frances (Fanny) Van de Grift Osbourne (1840-1914), estranged from her American husband, had taken her children to France, where she and her daughter Belle would be pursuing their art studies. RLS met Fanny at Grez-sur-Loing in 1876, and … Continue reading
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Tagged asceticism, Bd. St. Michel, believe, Bible, busy, café, Café de la Source, Christ, Christianity, close, cornered, desire, doctors, doctrine, end, event, fellow-men, fortunes, god, good, Gospels, gravely, grow, heart, hope, inch, interest, interests, intimate, knocks, lessons, letters, life, little, lonely, Lord, means, miles, moment, myself, old man, others, ourselves, Paris, Paul, people, pleasure, relations, religion, revenge, reverse, Robert Louis Stevenson, rough-and-tumble, sad, seas, seven-and-twenty, sharp, ship, sick, sickbed, solemn, sufferings, surroundings, Thomas Stevenson, unfriendly, wisdom, world, worst, write, years
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This to be read with a big voice
RLS was staying at Dieppe (Haute-Normandie) with Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, whom he was in love with. RLS’s Inland Voyage was at this time just put into the publisher’s hands (C. Kegan Paul & Co., London): a travelogue about … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged artistic, boards, circulating libraries, coin, conscience, Dieppe, French, Hotel des Étrangers, Inland Voyage digression, New Year’s Day, Paul Charles Kegan, Preface, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sidney Colvin, ticket, tramps, voice, weather, work
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