Tag Archives: Apemama

“Shall I become a midnight twitterer like my neighbours?”

Posted on August 19, 2020 by mafalda

Continuing from the previous letter. [As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2266.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 224-42] Tuesday, 4th [November 1890] I begin to see the whole scheme of letter-writing; you … Continue reading →

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“My report would be – no connection between standing stones and sepulture”

Posted on June 20, 2020 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2247.] To Andrew Lang [Colvin 1911, 3, 209-10] Union Club, Sydney [late August 1890] My dear Lang, I observed … Continue reading →

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“Since my dear wild noble father died no head on earth is more precious to my thoughts than yours”

Posted on May 30, 2020 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, 2240.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin, Memories and Notes, 1922, 146-7] Union Club, Sydney [August 1890] […] We … Continue reading →

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“Sail today, I don’t know where”

Posted on April 12, 2020 by mafalda

[For critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2227.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters p. 267; http://www.hathitrust.org%5D [Sydney, 10 April 1890] My dear Charles, I have been quite knocked over; go back islands four months, pick up again; sail … Continue reading →

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“There is no postal service; and schooners must take it, how they may and when”

Posted on March 3, 2020 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, 2206.] To E.L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 181-5] S.S. Lübeck [between Apia and Sydney] [February] 1890 … Continue reading →

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“As I write, the breeze is brisking up, doors are beginning to slam and shutters”

Posted on January 22, 2020 by mafalda

The following was written soon after the termination of the voyage of the Equator and RLS’s first landing in Samoa, where he was engaged in collecting materials for the account (then intended to be the concluding part of his great … Continue reading →

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“We are now about to rise, like whales, from this long dive”

Posted on January 10, 2020 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, 2192.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 169-71] Schooner Equator, at sea, Wednesday, 4th … Continue reading →

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