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“A prophet has certainly a devil of a lot of honour (and much coins) in another country”
[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1901.] To W.E. Henley [Colvin 1912, pp. 234-236] [Saranac Lake, c. 8 October 1887] My dear lad, I … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged abroad, articles, £, Baker's Cottage, Ballade in Hot Weather, Blue-bottle, cæsuras, cold, conveyances, Cricket, Deacon Brodie, Dobson. Pantoums, East Winds, essays, Fanny, Fons Bandusiæ, Gleeson White, Grant Allen, health, Henley, honour, Indiana, knees, Lang, Lloyd, Love in Idleness, MacDonald, magazine, Margate, money, Montreal, mother, Niagara, old age, patter ballade, Plain Women, Port Admiral, prophet, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roch, rondels, Saranac Lake, Scribner, success, Villanelles, wood
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All races are better away from their own country
Jules Simoneau (1820-1908) was the keeper of the inn and restaurant where RLS had boarded at Monterey, California, in the autumn of 1879, while waiting for his future wife’s divorce to become final. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate … Continue reading
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The bold unfearing chap / Aims at a professorial cap
Another letter referring to the candidature of RLS for the Edinburgh History Chair. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 3, 814.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin … Continue reading
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It is pleasant to be thus most at home abroad
P.G. Hamerton was an English painter, art critic, author and editor of The Portfolio periodical. The following refers to his candidature, which was not successful, for the Professorship of Fine Art at Edinburgh. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate … Continue reading
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Tagged abroad, American, book, California, clime, conveyance, countenance, damn, distant, Edinburgh, election, Essay, Essays on Art, father, friends, Hamerton, home, ill, ill-health, influence, interest, international, letter, mend, mistake, Monterey, moonlight, mossy, pale, Post Office, professors, prophet, publisher, recommendation, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, tan
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The audible haunting of an incarnate anger about the house
‘John Knox’ and ‘J.K.’ herein mentioned are the two papers on John Knox and his Relations with Women, first printed in Manmillan’s Magazine and afterwards in Familiar Studies of Men and Books. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by … Continue reading
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