Tag Archives: Cummy

“Well, laigh i’ your lug, sir, the clue was found. My style is from the Covenanting writers”

Posted on September 19, 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, 2666.] To J.M. Barrie [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 264-7] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima, Samoa, December 7th, 1893 … Continue reading →

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“We are in that part of the year which I like the best – the Rainy or Hurricane Season”

Posted on September 11, 2023 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letters, see Mehew 8, 2663.] To Alison Cunningham [Colvin 1911,  4, pp. 261-2] Vailima, December 5, 1893 My dearest Cummy, This goes to you with a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The Happy … Continue reading →

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Some day climb as high as Halkerside for me, and sprinkle some of the well water on the turf

Posted on December 29, 2017 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1795.] To Alison Cunningham [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 368-370] Skerryvore, April 16th, 1887 My dearest Cummy, As usual, … Continue reading →

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“I am so well that I am afraid to speak of it, being a coward as to boasting”

Posted on July 22, 2017 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1684.] To Alison Cunningham [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 348-349] [Skerryvore, Bournemouth, Late August 1886] My dear Cummy, I am home from a long holiday, vastly better in … Continue reading →

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“Don’t you remember the poisoning with mushrooms?”

Posted on June 18, 2017 by mafalda

Anticipating the gift of a cupboard from his old nurse Cummy and answering the questions set on his last letter to her. [As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1670.] To Alison Cunningham [Colvin … Continue reading →

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“I warn you, you will have to cast back your eyes a good long way, close upon thirty years”

Posted on June 4, 2017 by mafalda

RLS was always interested by his own retentiveness of memory for childish things, and here asks her old nurse, Cummy, some questions to test the quality of hers. [For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1661.] … Continue reading →

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“Herewith goes my new book, … I hope you will like it: I do”

Posted on May 27, 2017 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1654.] To Alison Cunningham [Colvin 1912, p. 216] [Bournemouth, 16 July, 1886] My dear Cummy, Herewith goes my new book, in which you will find some places that you … Continue reading →

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Whether on the first of January or the thirty-first of December, faith is a good word to end on

Posted on January 21, 2017 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1508.] To Alison Cunningham [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 305-306] [Skerryvore, Bournemouth] Jan. 1st, 1886 My dear Kinnicum,   I am a very bad dog, but not for … Continue reading →

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On winter afternoons, late, when the window was blue and spotted with rare rain drops

Posted on May 1, 2016 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 4, 1285.] To his parents [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 222-223] Hotel Chabassière, Royat [June 1884] My dear … Continue reading →

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Keep the jelly for the last

Posted on January 31, 2016 by mafalda

The persons mentioned below in the third paragraph are cousins of the writer and playmates of his childhood; two of them, christened Lewis like himself after their Balfour grandfather, had been nicknamed after their birthplaces ‘Delhi’ and ‘Cramond’ to avoid … Continue reading →

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