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“Do not suppose from this that I am ill in body; it is the numskull that I complain of”

Posted on March 2, 2024 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2748.] To Henry James [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 317-21] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima, July 7th, 1894 Dear Henry James, I am going to try and dictate to you a letter … Continue reading →

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“Could we ever stand Europe again?”

Posted on August 5, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2651.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, pp. 235-9] [Vailima, Late November 1893] My dear Colvin, This is disgraceful. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Apia, ava, Balfour, barbarism, beef, Belle, birthday, Britain, bush, Butler, captain, carriage, chamberlain, Chief Justice, chiefs, civilisations, Colvin, cook, daily errand man, David Balfour, diarrhoea, driving, Eliga, Europe, family, Fanny, feast, Feiloa'i, Fighting Gladiator, filigree, fono, food, fruit, gardener, gate paddock, groom, guests, hall, health, horse-posts, house boys, humbug, interpreter, Iopu, Lang, Leuelu, libation, Lloyd, London, Lū, Master of Ballantrae, May day, Misifolo, mountain road, outside boys, overseer, pigs, pork, prayer, prison, prisoners, Protestant boys, provost, Pulu, riding, road, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoan, Semelé, Seumanu, shoes, smiling, society, soft feet, Sosimo, spit-ava, stockings, Tali, talking-man, Talolo, Tama-ona, Tasi Sele, Ti'a, tobacco, Turkey, uniforms, Vailima, Vaisigano, valet, visitors, wages, washman, women, Wrecker, Wurmbrand | 1 Comment

“I like more and more naked writing; and yet sometimes one has a longing for full colour…”

Posted on March 16, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2563.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, pp. 198-204] [Vailima,] April 25th [1893] My dear Colvin, Today early … Continue reading →

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“All send me off on a month’s holiday to Sydney”

Posted on February 3, 2023 by mafalda

[For critical edition of this letter see Mehew 8, 2540.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters pp. 324-5: http://www.hathitrust.org] [Vailima, c. 17 February 1893] My dear Charles, I have had the influenza, as I believe you know; this has been followed … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Americans, Apia, Baxter, Bloodie Jack, Britishers, captain, conversion, doctor, Ebb-Tide, fefe, German Firm, harbour, holiday, influenza, Jekyll and Hyde, Jersey, Kidnapped, Ledgerites, McClure, money, New York Ledger, Pearl Fisher, Pinkerton, rights, Robert Louis Stevenson, sailors, Samoa, Samoan, Schooner Farallone, superstition, Sydney, Treasure Island, Vailima, womans, womenkind, words, Wrecker | Leave a comment

“What a tongue it would be to write, if one only knew it – and there were only readers!”

Posted on November 20, 2020 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, 2295.] This is the first appearance in RLS’s letters of the Swedish Chief Justice of Samoa, Conrad … Continue reading →

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“Barquentin R.L.S., nine hundred and odd days out from the port of Bournemouth”

Posted on February 19, 2020 by mafalda

RLS left Apia on board the German mail steamer Lübeck on 4 February and reached Sydney on 13 February. You may read about this ship on a Melbourne newspaper, 30 August 1886, here: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11570935 [As usual, for correct and critical … Continue reading →

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“I think it needful to warn you not to be in a hurry to suppose us dead”

Posted on November 10, 2019 by mafalda

The reference in the first paragraph is to the publication in the press, which Baxter had permitted, of one of RLS’s letters written during the earlier part of his voyage. RLS had remonstrated, always greatly disliking the publication of private … Continue reading →

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“I never knew the world was so amusing”

Posted on August 25, 2019 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2137.] To Bob Stevenson [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 114-8] Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, February 1889 My dear Bob, My … Continue reading →

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“I could bear to go down myself, but not to have much MS go down with me”

Posted on May 10, 2019 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, 2118.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 82-4] Taiti, October 16th, 1888 My dear Colvin, … Continue reading →

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“I like myself better in the woods”

Posted on April 22, 2018 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1899.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 14-16] [Saranac Lake, Oct. 8th 1887] My dear Gosse, have just read your article twice, with cheers of … Continue reading →

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“Do not suppose from this that I am ill in body; it is the numskull that I complain of”

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“Could we ever stand Europe again?”

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“I like more and more naked writing; and yet sometimes one has a longing for full colour…”

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“All send me off on a month’s holiday to Sydney”

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“What a tongue it would be to write, if one only knew it – and there were only readers!”

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“Barquentin R.L.S., nine hundred and odd days out from the port of Bournemouth”

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“I think it needful to warn you not to be in a hurry to suppose us dead”

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“I never knew the world was so amusing”

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“I could bear to go down myself, but not to have much MS go down with me”

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“I like myself better in the woods”

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