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“I felt myself about 17 again, a pleasant experience”

Posted on May 17, 2024 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2767.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, 1912, pp. 261-3] [Vailima] Aug. 7th [1894] My dear Colvin, This is to inform you, sir, that on Sunday last (and this is Tuesday) I … Continue reading →

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“I have in view a sort of child’s party for grown-up persons with kissing games, etc., here at Vailima”

Posted on April 6, 2024 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2762.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 327-30] [Vailima, 17 July, 1894] My dear Colvin, I have to thank … Continue reading →

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“It is only a question of time and prayer and ink, and should leave something, no, not good, but not all bad”

Posted on January 26, 2024 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2733.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, pp. 253-5] [Beginning dictated to Belle] Vailima, May 18th, 1894. My dear … Continue reading →

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And I have been a Scotchman all my life, and denied my native land!

Posted on February 8, 2015 by mafalda

‘Away with your gardens of roses’: first line of Byron’s ‘Lachin y Gair’ (‘Lochnagar’) in praise of the Highlands. The volume of essays must be Virginihus Puerisque, published the following spring, 1881. The first poem enclosed by RLS will be … Continue reading →

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‘Vixerunt nonnulli in agris, delectati re sua familiari’

Posted on February 5, 2015 by mafalda

RLS and Fanny were married on 19 May 1880 by the Revd William Anderson Scott, a Scots Presbyterian minister, at his home in Post Street, San Francisco. After staying 3 days at the Palace Hotel, they left San Francisco. on … Continue reading →

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I was near the other side of Jordan

Posted on January 12, 2015 by mafalda

By mid-March 1880 RLS had moved to East Oakland, CA, at first at the Tubbs Hotel, on (East) 12th Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues. It was apparently there that he had a relapse and a first hemorrhage. Fanny moved … Continue reading →

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Can I make some one happier this day before I lie down to sleep?

Posted on January 7, 2015 by mafalda

The Amateur Emigrant, an account of RLS’s journey to California, was then in draft. The novel A Vendetta in the West was eventually abandoned and apparently destroyed. The Pavilion on the Links had just then been accepted for the Cornhill … Continue reading →

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And then, I’ll stick to stories. I am not frightened. I know my mind is changing

Posted on December 30, 2014 by mafalda

The first draft of the first part of the Amateur Emigrant, when it reached Colvin about Christmas 1879, had seemed to him, compared to RLS’s previous travel papers, “a somewhat wordy and spiritless record of squalid experiences, little likely to … Continue reading →

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You know I was a story-teller ingrain; did not that reassure you?

Posted on December 26, 2014 by mafalda

The volume of studies was eventually called Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882), and the one of the essays Virginibus Puerisque (1881). The essays here mentioned on Benjamin Franklin and William Penn were projects long cherished but in … Continue reading →

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To the folks that mind o’ me when I’m awa’

Posted on December 16, 2014 by mafalda

The Dook de Karneel (= Duke of Cornhill) and Marky de Stephen is Leslie Stephen, the editor of Cornill Magazine. The “blood and thunder” is RLS’s story, The Pavilion on the Links, just then accepted for the Cornhill. The Deacon … Continue reading →

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“I felt myself about 17 again, a pleasant experience”

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“I have in view a sort of child’s party for grown-up persons with kissing games, etc., here at Vailima”

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“It is only a question of time and prayer and ink, and should leave something, no, not good, but not all bad”

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And I have been a Scotchman all my life, and denied my native land!

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‘Vixerunt nonnulli in agris, delectati re sua familiari’

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I was near the other side of Jordan

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Can I make some one happier this day before I lie down to sleep?

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And then, I’ll stick to stories. I am not frightened. I know my mind is changing

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You know I was a story-teller ingrain; did not that reassure you?

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To the folks that mind o’ me when I’m awa’

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