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“This Braille writing is a kind of consecration”

Posted on September 8, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letters, see Mehew 8, 2661.] To Harriet Baker [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 269-70] [Vailima, ? 5 December 1893] Dear Madam, There is no trouble, and I wish I could help instead. As … Continue reading →

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“If I possibly can draw up another story, I will”

Posted on January 14, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2514.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 166-73] [Vailima, ? 28 December 1892] My dear Colvin, You are … Continue reading →

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“To the merry note of the carpenter’s hammer, in an upper room of the New House”

Posted on January 7, 2023 by mafalda

[A usual, for critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2513.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 317-9: http://www.hathitrust.org%5D [Vailima,] 28 December 1892 My dear Charles, Your really decent letter to hand. And here I am answering it, to the … Continue reading →

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“And when I remember that I once seriously dreamed of marrying that underhand virago…”

Posted on May 1, 2022 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2445.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 301-4] [Dictated to Belle Strong.] Vailima, 11 August 1892 My dear Charles, Herewith please receive a considerable portion of David … 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 do not think I can be accused of idleness. This is my season”

Posted on August 1, 2021 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2368.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 365-72] [Vailima] Nov. 25th, 1891 My dear Colvin, My dear Colvin, I wonder … Continue reading →

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“I send you herewith a story: The Beach of Falesá”

Posted on June 12, 2021 by mafalda

[For critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2359.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 286-7; http://www.hathitrust.org] [Vailima, ? 13 October 1891] My dear Charles, This is painful-doery with a warrant. I send you herewith a story: The Beach of … Continue reading →

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“Do you wish to illustrate My Grandfather?”

Posted on May 30, 2021 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2354.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 350-1] [Vailima,] October 8th, 1891 My dear Burlingame, All right, you … Continue reading →

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“Bating bad memory and self-deception”

Posted on July 13, 2018 by mafalda

As already said, RLS was managing all his publishing arrangements himself, and an occasional lapse of memory or attention betrayed him into misunderstandings and conflicting agreements with two different publishers, both his friends, Charles Scribner and Samuel Sidney McClure. He … Continue reading →

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And if that is not health, it is the nearest I am like to have

Posted on July 10, 2016 by mafalda

RLS and his wife were still busy on More New Arabian Nights (the romance of the Great North Road having been begun and postponed). The question here touched is, to what publishers should they be offered. [Dots between square brackets … Continue reading →

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