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“The proper handling of an author’s books as a whole is his best and really his only good advertisement”

Posted on March 7, 2023 by mafalda

[For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2555.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 326-31: http://www.hathitrust.org%5D [Vailima 16 April 1893] My dear Charles, Yours of 22nd Feb. and 16th March to hand. I seem to have … Continue reading →

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“All send me off on a month’s holiday to Sydney”

Posted on February 3, 2023 by mafalda

[For critical edition of this letter see Mehew 8, 2540.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters pp. 324-5: http://www.hathitrust.org] [Vailima, c. 17 February 1893] My dear Charles, I have had the influenza, as I believe you know; this has been followed … Continue reading →

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“You will know more about the South Seas after you have read my little tale than if you had read a library”

Posted on May 23, 2021 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2351.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp.342-8] [Vailima], Sept. 28, 1891 My dear Colvin, Since I last … Continue reading →

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“In the matter of rhyme no man can judge himself”

Posted on June 6, 2020 by mafalda

This letter is in acknowledgment of proofs received from Scribner’s of a proposed volume of verse to contain, besides “Ticonderoga: A Legend of the West Highlands” and the two ballads “The Feast of Famine: Marquesan Manners” and “The Song of … Continue reading →

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“I like myself better in the woods”

Posted on April 22, 2018 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1899.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 14-16] [Saranac Lake, Oct. 8th 1887] My dear Gosse, have just read your article twice,     with cheers of … Continue reading →

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“Like an Italian cinque-cento medallion”

Posted on February 24, 2018 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1885.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 8-9] [Hotel St. Stephen, New York, 24 September … Continue reading →

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All races are better away from their own country

Posted on January 2, 2016 by mafalda

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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A certain warmth (tepid enough) and a certain dash of the picturesque are my poor essential qualities

Posted on December 1, 2015 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 4, 1143.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 161-162] La Solitude, Hyères, 26th September 1883 My … Continue reading →

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It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable

Posted on November 22, 2014 by mafalda

The copy of the Monterey paper here mentioned is probably the Monterey Californian of 11 November 1879, containing RLS’s article ‘San Carlos Day’ signed ‘The Monterey Barbarian’, and repulished in Scribner’s Magazine, August 1920. [As usual, dots between square brackets … Continue reading →

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Kids are what is the matter with me

Posted on April 10, 2014 by mafalda

In the first week of January 1874 Sidney Colvin goes for some necessary work to Paris, with the intention of returning towards the end of the month. The following letter introduces the Russian sisters, Madame Nadia Zassetsky and Madame Sophie … Continue reading →

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