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“People mayn’t be like their books, they are their books”

Posted on February 23, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Edward Verrall Lucas. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2550.] To J.M. Barrie [Lucas’ Annual, 1914, pp. 155-61] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima, Samoa, April 2nd or … Continue reading →

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“Why have I allowed myself to rot so long on land?”

Posted on February 11, 2018 by mafalda

The moment of RLS’s arrival at New York was that when his reputation had first reached its height in the United States, owing to the popularity both of Treasure Island and Kidnapped, but more especially to the immense impression made … Continue reading →

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It is a strange affair to be an emigrant, as I hope you shall see in a future work

Posted on October 28, 2014 by mafalda

RLS reached the Pacific Transfer Station near Counsil Bluffs on the eastern bank of the Missouri on Thursday night, 21 August 1879. Here he joined a Union Pacific ‘emigrant train’: left on Friday evening, 22 August, and crossed the Missouri … Continue reading →

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“People mayn’t be like their books, they are their books”

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