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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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My heart and all my interest are with the dweller, that ancient of days and day-old infant, man

Posted on November 22, 2016 by mafalda

The paper referred to in this letter is one which William Archer wrote over his own signature (‘RLS: His Style and his Thought’) in the November number of Time, a magazine already extinct at the time of Colvin’s edition of … Continue reading →

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“Like an Italian cinque-cento medallion”

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