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The optimistic Stevenson
As a young art student, Arthur Trevor Haddon (1864-1941), English portrait painter, had won a scholarship at the Slade School in 1883. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition … Continue reading
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Many a long hour we passed in graveyards, the man who has gone and I
Miss Ferrier’s brother, Walter, one of RLS’s oldest and most intimate friends of Edinburgh days, had lately died of alcoholism, at the same age as RLS. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and … Continue reading
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Our little lives are moments in the wake of the eternal silence: but how crowded while they last
In memory of one of the oldest and most intimate of his friends of Edinburgh days, James Walter Ferrier, who died of alcoholism three weeks before, at the same age as RLS, 33. The reference to a Mrs. Leslie is … Continue reading
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Tagged affection, angel, blind, companion, crowd, death, Ferrier, friends, Gladstone Terrace, Grant, Henley, Hyères, life, loss, love, mourn, Mrs Leslie, peace, portrait, regret, religion, Robert Louis Stevenson, sharpness, silence, sorrow, suffer, wake, wife, wild, wisdom, work
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I do not think many wives are better loved than mine will be
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 3, 682.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1912, pp. 132-135] 608 Bush Street, San Francisco, California, Jan. 23, … Continue reading
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