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“No man is a master of the influenza”

Posted on April 30, 2023 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2609.] To Clement K. Shorter [Shorter, Letters to an Editor, p. 4] Vailima, 18 July 1893 Clement Shorter, Esq. Dear Mr Shorter, Herewith I send you a short paper … Continue reading →

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“The other day in Sydney… I was sculpt a second time”

Posted on April 2, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Meehew 8, 2578.] To Augustus Saint-Gaudens [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 198-200] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima, Samoa, May 29th, 1893 My … Continue reading →

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“I could not eat a penny roll that piece of bludgeoning had gained for me”

Posted on July 10, 2020 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2251.] To Andrew Chatto [Baxter Letters, pp. 271-2: http://www.hathitrust.org%5D Union Club, Sydney [September 1890] Dear Mr. Chatto, The letter to Dr Hyde is yours, or any man’s, I will never … Continue reading →

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“To other lands and nights my fancy turned”

Posted on January 5, 2020 by mafalda

The following, written in the last days of the sail southwards from the Gilberts to Samoa, contains the full plan of the South Sea book as it had then been conceived. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney … Continue reading →

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“Today I lunch with Richmond, and meet Burne-Jones; tonight Browning dines with us”

Posted on July 13, 2017 by mafalda

Having given up going to Scotland for a summer change, RLS had started on the ‘outing’ which took the shape of a ten days’ visit to Sidney Colvin’s house at the British Museum, followed by another made in the company … Continue reading →

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