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“Vailima is beautiful and my home and tomb that is to be; though it’s a wrench not to be planted in Scotland”

Posted on June 3, 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, 2624.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, pp. 227-33] [Vailima,] 23rd August [1893] My dear Colvin, Your pleasing letter, … Continue reading →

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“I like biography far better than fiction myself: fiction is too free”

Posted on April 8, 2023 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 8, 2585.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 208-12] [Vailima,] June 10th, 1893 My dear Gosse, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Béte Humaine, biography, Browning, characters, Débâcle, death, demi-divinities, dialogue, drink, Ebb-Tide, Fanny, Father and Son, fiction, flesh, Gosse, grandfather, health, In Memoriam, James, Lang, letters, lewdness, mail, Montépin, mother, Napoleon, narrative, novels, obituary, Origines, politics, Renan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robespierre, Samoa, Saturday, Sedan, smoking-cap, Symonds, Taine, temporal order, Tennyson, tobacco, Vailima, wine, Zola | Leave a comment

“The ever-to-be-execrated ‘Ebb Tide’, or Stevenson’s Blooming Error”

Posted on March 29, 2023 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, 2577.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, 1912, pp. 205-12] […] [Vailima] 29th May [1893] My dear Colvin, … Continue reading →

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“I shall never see Auld Reekie. I shall never set my foot again upon the heather”

Posted on March 22, 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, 2568.] To Samuel Rutherford Crockett [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 195-8] Vailima, Samoa, May 17th, 1893 Dear Mr Crockett, … Continue reading →

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“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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“If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning”

Posted on October 22, 2022 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 7, 2479.] To J.M. Barrie [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 143-5] [The beginning dictated to Belle] Vailima Plantation, November 1st, … Continue reading →

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“A fellow cannot stand aside and look on at such an exhibition as our government”

Posted on February 17, 2022 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2416.] To Andrew Lang [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 91-3] [Vailima, Late May – Early June 1892] My dear Lang, I knew you would prove a trusty purveyor. The … Continue reading →

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“I could live and die with Adela – die, rather the better of the two”

Posted on January 28, 2022 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2411.] To Henry James [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 348-50] [Vailima, ? 25 May 1892] My dear Henry James, From this perturbed and hunted being expect but a line, … Continue reading →

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“This is a poison bad world for the romancer, this Anglo-Saxon world”

Posted on October 9, 2021 by mafalda

The South Sea novel here mentioned, Sophia Scarlet, never got beyond the planning stage. A 15-page outline dictated to Belle giving a detailed summary of the first ten chapters survives at the Free Library of Philadelphia. [For full, correct and … 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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“Vailima is beautiful and my home and tomb that is to be; though it’s a wrench not to be planted in Scotland”

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“I like biography far better than fiction myself: fiction is too free”

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“The ever-to-be-execrated ‘Ebb Tide’, or Stevenson’s Blooming Error”

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“I shall never see Auld Reekie. I shall never set my foot again upon the heather”

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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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“If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning”

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“A fellow cannot stand aside and look on at such an exhibition as our government”

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“I could live and die with Adela – die, rather the better of the two”

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“This is a poison bad world for the romancer, this Anglo-Saxon world”

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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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