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“There will be a meeting of the twa Hoasting Scots Makers in spite of fate, fortune and the Devil”

Posted on March 17, 2024 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2754.] To J.M. Barrie [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 330-7; 1899, 2, pp. 349-50] [Beginning dictated to Belle] Vailima, July … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged 1871, Archer, Balfour, Barriéer, Barrie, Belle, breakfast, Burns, Carnegie Arbuthnott of Balnamoon, climate, conscience, cough, Crockett, devil, Dundee, egg, fever, fishing, Free Kirk, French, Germans, Glenogil, health, History of Indostan, Kirriemuir, Lang, Latin, Loia, Magiagi, Mary Queen of Scots, mother, Mother Hubbard's dog, Mrs. Barrie, Orme, Palema, Paper Chase, photographs, poem, Queen's River, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Scotland, Sunday Schule, Tamaitai, Tamaitai Matua, tea, teetotaller, Teuila, Upolu, Vailima, verses, William-Black | Leave a comment

“February or March – bad months. From April on it is delightful”

Posted on January 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 7, 2505.] To Ann Jenkin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 154-5] [Vailima,] December 5th, 1892 My dear Mrs Jenkin, […] […] … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged climate, comfort, eloquence, Jenkin, Liverpool, lunch bell, mail, months, new world, politics, Robert Louis Stevenson, San Francisco, travelling, Vailima | Leave a comment

“The actual is not the true”

Posted on December 4, 2022 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, 2501.] To J.M. Barrie [Colvin 1899, 2, pp. 331-4] [Vailima, Early December 1892] Dear J.M. Barrrie, You will … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged amanuensis, Andersen, artist, Barrie, beauty, bell, Belle, birds, Burial, burn, chatterbox, climate, critics, Dutchwoman, Edinburgh Eleven, English tourist, forests, genius, glove, Haggard, health, Highlanders, house, influenza, Jess, journalist, Little Minister, national pride, natives, noise, Ogilvy, parody, pleasure, Prophet's chamber, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Scotch blood, Scotchmen, Scott, sea, Shirra, silence, tale, temperature, The Bell, Tibbie Birse, Vailima, visitors, wife, Window in Thrums | Leave a comment

“I hope you will remember to register your letters, or I may never receive them”

Posted on January 10, 2021 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 7, 2308.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, 278-9; http://www.hathitrust.org] [Tutuila, Late March / Early April 1891] My dear Charles, I have had to draw a bill on you for … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged American consul, Apia, Baxter, climate, copyright bill, dance, feast, funds, Manu'a, rain, Ronert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, South Seas, Tutuila, weather | Leave a comment

“But I know pleasure still; pleasure with a thousand faces, and none perfect”

Posted on December 27, 2020 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 7, 2307.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters I, 1895, pp. 102-9] [Vailima] Friday 19 [actually 20] March [1891] My dear S.C., You probably expect that now I am back at Vailima … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged American Consulate, birds, candles, carpenters, climate, clouds, Colvin, conch-shell, Dean Swift, diary, dreams, Dryden, eggs, envy, Fanny, Flaubert, forest, French, furniture, happiness, health, heat, horror, Hyères, indiscretion, ink, inspiration, letters, life, meals, money, moon, mosquitos, nature, Pacific, pipe, pleasure, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoan, South Seas, style, Sydney, Vailima, Van John, weeding, work | 1 Comment

“Strange things are readers”

Posted on July 24, 2020 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2257.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 243-5] Vailima, Apia, Samoa [? 7 October 1890] […] … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged birds, bookshelves, Burlingame, children, climate, correction, dialogue, Dodd, envy, epilogue, estate, frogs, German, Havers, health, Highland Widow, lamp, Low, Mount Vaea, mountain, pleasure, Pope, prologue, proofs, rain, readers, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saint-Gaudens, Samoa, schooners, Scott, Scribner, Scribner's Magazine, sea, shower, sleigh-bell, South Sea Islander, South Seas, squall, Sullivan, Tai-o-hae, tapa, Vailima, veranda, Wrecker | 2 Comments

“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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“Ay, ay, it is sad to sell 17; sad and fine were the old days”

Posted on February 26, 2020 by mafalda

RLS took steamer again, this time for Sydney, where he had ordered his letters to await him. This was written during the passage. The set of verses were posthumously published in Songs of Travel, XXXV (1896), under the title “To … Continue reading →

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“The whole tale of my life is better to me than any poem”

Posted on December 14, 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, 2180.] To James Payn [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 154-6] Honolulu, H.I., June 13th, 1889 My dear James Payn, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged beachcombers, climate, Courage, dawn, deafness, diet, disabilities, Dutton, fate, Father Damien, fortune, Gilbert Islands, happiness, harbours, health, helpers, honesty, Honolulu, hospital, investigation, islands, kindness, landfalls, leprosy, life, Marshalls, Molokai, natives, Patience, patients, Payn, Robert Louis Stevenson, schooner, South Sea, squalls, suffering, surf, Sydney, sympathy, Towns & Co., virtues, voyage | 1 Comment

“It is always darkest before dawn”

Posted on October 5, 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, 2153.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 132-4] [Honolulu, c. 2 April 1889] My dear Burlingame, … Continue reading →

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“There will be a meeting of the twa Hoasting Scots Makers in spite of fate, fortune and the Devil”

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“February or March – bad months. From April on it is delightful”

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“The actual is not the true”

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“I hope you will remember to register your letters, or I may never receive them”

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“But I know pleasure still; pleasure with a thousand faces, and none perfect”

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“Strange things are readers”

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

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“Ay, ay, it is sad to sell 17; sad and fine were the old days”

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“The whole tale of my life is better to me than any poem”

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“It is always darkest before dawn”

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