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“My name is worth something, if only as an advertisement”

Posted on March 9, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, for full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2556.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Baxter Letters, p. 331; http://www.hathitrust.org] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima, 16 April 1893 My dear Burlingame, You must have expected me to be … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged account, Baxter, Burlingame, business, Canada, Cassells, copies, copyright, David Balfour, Edinburgh, England, Island Nights Entertainments, legality, offers, payment, Robert Louie Stevenson, royalties, sale, Samoa, Scribner's, States, Vailima, Wrecker | Leave a comment

“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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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged 17th century, accounts, Across the Plains, Americans, Balfour, Barclay, barons, Baxter, Belle, Berwick, Burlingame, business, Canada, charts, Child's Garden of Verses, Clan, codicil, Colvin, copies, copyright, copyright bill, correspondence, council of war, Dance of Death, David Balfour, death, Decisions, descent, dinner, domicile, editor, Family History, Fountainhall, genealogies, Harper, Hartford, Hirdmanshiels, honour, income, Justice Clerk, Kidnapped, Lain, letters, Macgregor Stevenson, MacSteen, Mary Stewart, McClure, Memorials, music, North Ayrshire, overproduction, people, Perth, Pinkerton, Pitcairn, pounds, proofs, proscription, publishers, Robert Louis Stevenson, royalty, Samoa, Scotland, Scribner's Sons, series, short story, States, Stevensons, syntax, Thurston, Twain, Vailima, Weir of Hermiston, Western Pacific, Westlothian, will | Leave a comment

“From a congenital defect, I must suppose, I am unable to write the word OR – wherever I write it the printer unerringly puts AS”

Posted on October 29, 2022 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 7, 2484.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 4, 146-7] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima, Plantation, Nov. 2nd, 1892 … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged $, Adams, as, Baxter, Beach of Falesá, Burlingame, cheque, Colonies, correspondence, dictionaries, editing, Footnote to History, galley, Hawaii, My Grandfather, or, Post Office, proofs, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Scott's Voyage, Stoddard, Vailima, writers | Leave a comment

“I was inclined to fancy it was the fault of the Post Office”

Posted on October 1, 2022 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 7, 2473.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 134-5] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima Plantation, Samoan Islands, Oct. 10th, 1892 My dear Burlingame, It is now, as … Continue reading →

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“It was that old gentleman’s blood that brought me to Samoa”

Posted on April 2, 2022 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, 2442.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 90-1] Vailima, Upolu, August 1st, ’92 My dear … Continue reading →

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“I am greatly overdone with literature and affairs”

Posted on December 12, 2021 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 7, 2398.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, 295-6; http://www.hathitrust.org] [Vailima, 30 March 1892] My dear Charles, Herewith the documents signed. Do I understand our paper properly? It means that of … Continue reading →

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“Pray for those that go down to the sea in ships”

Posted on December 4, 2021 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2396.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 38-9] [Vailima, 30 March 1892] My dear Burlingame, Herewith Chapters IX and … Continue reading →

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“There is perhaps more art than you think for in the peccant chapter”

Posted on September 26, 2021 by mafalda

[For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2381.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 4-5] [Vailima] Jan. 2nd, ’92 My dear Burlingame, Overjoyed you were pleased with The Wrecker, and shall consider your protests. … Continue reading →

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“I would tell you more of it, but I think I’m going to use it in a tale”

Posted on September 12, 2021 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2378.] To Sidney Colvin (continued) [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 378-92] Thursday [17 December] – Yesterday the same expedition set forth … Continue reading →

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“I have never heard of greater insolence than to attempt such a subject”

Posted on July 25, 2021 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2367.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 374-6] [Vailima, Late November 1891] My dear Burlingame, The end of The … Continue reading →

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“My name is worth something, if only as an advertisement”

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

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“From a congenital defect, I must suppose, I am unable to write the word OR – wherever I write it the printer unerringly puts AS”

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“I was inclined to fancy it was the fault of the Post Office”

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“It was that old gentleman’s blood that brought me to Samoa”

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“I am greatly overdone with literature and affairs”

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“Pray for those that go down to the sea in ships”

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“There is perhaps more art than you think for in the peccant chapter”

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“I would tell you more of it, but I think I’m going to use it in a tale”

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“I have never heard of greater insolence than to attempt such a subject”

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