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“I find few greater pleasures than reading my own works, but I never, O I never read The Black Arrow”

Posted on December 20, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2716.] To William Archer [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 291-3] [Beginning dictated to Belle] Vailima, Samoa, March 27th, 1894 My dear Archer, Many thanks for your Theatrical World. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged amanuensis, Archer, Bauble Shop, Becket, Belle, Black Arrow, Child's Garden of Verses, Europe, Fleming, Hazlitt, Lysaght, Meredith, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Scottish, shelf, Tennyson, Theatrical World for 1893, Tomarcher, Vailima | 3 Comments

“I am delighted with your idea”

Posted on October 12, 2023 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2686.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters pp. 342-5; http://www.hathitrust.org] Dictated [to Belle] Vailima, 1 January 1894 My dear Charles, I am delighted with your idea, and first I will … Continue reading →

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“If you would but take a fancy to translate a book of mine that I myself admired…”

Posted on May 15, 2020 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2238.] To Marcel Schwob [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 206-9] Union Club, Sydney, August 19th 1890 My dear Mr. Schwob, Mais, alors, vous avez tous les bonheurs, vous! … Continue reading →

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“I am like to be a millionaire if this goes on, and be publicly hanged at the social revolution”

Posted on April 29, 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, 1907.] To William Archer [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 18-19] Saranac Lake, [Mid-]October 1887 Dear Archer, Many … Continue reading →

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Bewildering and childering are enough for me

Posted on January 6, 2016 by mafalda

The following is in answer to a letter containing remarks on the proofs of A Child’s Garden of Verses, then going round among some of his friends with the name of Penny Whistles, and on the instalments of Silverado Squatters … Continue reading →

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A great variety of small ships launched or still upon the stocks

Posted on December 13, 2015 by mafalda

Of the ‘small ships’ here mentioned, A Misadventure in France was probably a draft of the Epilogue to an Inland Voyage, not published till five years later in Scribner’s for Aug 1888, while The Travelling Companion (of which Colvin remembered … Continue reading →

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I will now make a confession

Posted on November 3, 2015 by mafalda

‘Tushery’ had been a name in use between RLS and Henley for romances of the Ivanhoe type. He now applies it to his own tale of the Wars of the Roses, The Black Arrow, written for Young Folks. RLS began … Continue reading →

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“I find few greater pleasures than reading my own works, but I never, O I never read The Black Arrow”

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“I am delighted with your idea”

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“If you would but take a fancy to translate a book of mine that I myself admired…”

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“I am like to be a millionaire if this goes on, and be publicly hanged at the social revolution”

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Bewildering and childering are enough for me

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A great variety of small ships launched or still upon the stocks

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I will now make a confession

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