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“You cannot change ancestral feelings of right and wrong without what is practically soul-murder”

Posted on March 25, 2024 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, 2755.] To Adelaide Boodle [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 323-6] Vailima, July 14, 1894 My dear Adelaide, […] … Continue reading →

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“Whenever you wish to enjoy any cosmic or epochal emotion… write to the Hermit of Samoa”

Posted on July 24, 2022 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2455.] To Elizabeth Fairchild [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 113-6] [Vailima, Early September 1892] My dear Mrs. Fairchild, Thank you a thousand times for your letter. You are the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged adventures, Amelia, amusement, atheism, Balfour, belief, Belle, Chinamen, civilisation, conservatives, conspiration, deportation, Dissolution, Europe, experiments, Fairchild, funk, glamour, Government, Hermit of Samoa, human nature, humanity, Ibsen, inexperience, information, joys, Lady Jersey, life, machinery, Mataafa, melody, messengers, New Youth, Ouida, reactionaries, rebels, risks, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roman Empire, Samoa, sermon, sociology, stars, teeth, terror, theory of life, timidity, Vailima, youth | Leave a comment

“You will know more about the South Seas after you have read my little tale than if you had read a library”

Posted on May 23, 2021 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, 2351.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp.342-8] [Vailima], Sept. 28, 1891 My dear Colvin, Since I last … Continue reading →

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“All my other women have been as ugly as sin”

Posted on February 21, 2021 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, 2317.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 308-14] [Vailima] April 29th, ’91 My dear Colvin, I begin … Continue reading →

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“I am a real employer of labour now, and have much of the ship captain when aroused”

Posted on January 16, 2021 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2309.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 296-9] [Vailima] Saturday, April 18th [1891] My dear Colvin, I got … Continue reading →

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“I was never fond of towns, houses, society, or (it seems) civilisation”

Posted on May 23, 2020 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2239.] To Henry James [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 204-6] Union Club, Sydney [19 August 1890] My dear Henry … Continue reading →

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“His body’s under hatches, – his soul, if there is any hell to go to, gone to hell”

Posted on November 19, 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, 2172.] To Will H. Low [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 142-3] […] Honolulu, (about) 20th May ’89 … Continue reading →

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“I’m direckit at space”

Posted on October 18, 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, 2158.] To Charles Baxter [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 138-9] Honolulu, [postmark 12] April 1889 My dear Charles, As … Continue reading →

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“My 19th century strikes here, and lies alongside of something beautiful and ancient”

Posted on September 21, 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, 2151.] To Herny James [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 127-9] Honolulu [towards the end of March 1889] My dear … Continue reading →

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“The children beat their parents here; it does not make their parents any better”

Posted on May 16, 2019 by mafalda

RLS addressed a part of this letter to William Archer’s son, ‘Tomarcher’, then aged three. [As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2119] To William and Thomas Archer [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 85-6] Taiti, … Continue reading →

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“You cannot change ancestral feelings of right and wrong without what is practically soul-murder”

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“Whenever you wish to enjoy any cosmic or epochal emotion… write to the Hermit of Samoa”

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“You will know more about the South Seas after you have read my little tale than if you had read a library”

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“All my other women have been as ugly as sin”

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“I am a real employer of labour now, and have much of the ship captain when aroused”

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“I was never fond of towns, houses, society, or (it seems) civilisation”

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“His body’s under hatches, – his soul, if there is any hell to go to, gone to hell”

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“I’m direckit at space”

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“My 19th century strikes here, and lies alongside of something beautiful and ancient”

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“The children beat their parents here; it does not make their parents any better”

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