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You know what a lazy rascal I am

Posted on June 11, 2015 by

Alison Cunningham, daughter of a weaver of Torryburn, Fife, became RLS’s ‘good nurse’ when he was 18 months old. He was highly influenced by her in his childhood and remained devoted to her, all his life. [As usual, dots between … Continue reading →

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You have no idea what it costs me to wring out my work now

Posted on June 5, 2015 by

In the early months of the year 1882 RLS was kept indoors at Davos by a “knee tied up”, with a “slight displacement”, and “chronic inflammation”. His essay ‘A Gossip on Romance’ was published in the first number of Longman’s … Continue reading →

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Not Kamschatka this trip, only the top of the Alps

Posted on February 14, 2015 by

RLS, Fanny and her son Lloyd left Edinburgh for London on 7 October 1880: here Dr. Andrew Clark confirmed the advice already given by Dr. George Balfour that he should spend the winter in the High Alps. They travelled by … Continue reading →

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