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“A holiday is required”

Posted on October 24, 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, 2287.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 256-67] [Vailima] Monday, twenty-somethingth [22] of December 1890 My … Continue reading →

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“So long as I cruise in the South Seas, I shall be well and happy”

Posted on April 21, 2020 by mafalda

The S.S. Janet Nicoll took RLS, Fanny and Lloyd by a long and devious course among many groups of islands that he had not yet visited. Out of Auckland harbour the voyage nearly came to a premature end through the … Continue reading →

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“Clambering down cliffs to get photographs like a man of iron”

Posted on April 17, 2020 by mafalda

[As usual, for critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2230.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters pp. 267-8; http://www.hathitrust.org] Janet Nicoll, at sea, off Upolu [30 April 1890] My dear Charles, This is to let you to wit that … Continue reading →

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Just got a servant !!!!!!

Posted on August 27, 2015 by mafalda

The expression “a muckle hash of a weedy” (Scots) stay for something like “a large agglomeration of a scrawny person”. In a postscript Fanny described her new servant as ‘a most competent large middle-aged servant’, and an expert cook. [As … Continue reading →

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I vote for separations

Posted on August 20, 2015 by mafalda

As the ways and restrictions of a settled invalid were repugnant to RLS’s character and instincts, so were the life and society of a regular invalid station depressing and uncongenial to him. He determined, accordingly, to avoid settling in one … Continue reading →

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Bare, grey shores, grim grey houses, grim grey sea

Posted on January 25, 2014 by mafalda

In the summer of 1868 RLS is practising in the family firm, learning the engineering business. He goes to watch the works in progress first at Anstruther on the coast of Fife, and afterwards at Wick: the breakwater built there … Continue reading →

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