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“I protest wholly against any idea of a biography”

Posted on January 24, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, for critical edition of this letter see Mehew 8, 2524.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 321-4: http://www.hathitrust.org] Private and confidential!!! [Dictated to Belle Strong] Vailima, 8 January 1893 My dear Charles, I have just had a turn … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged adverisement, Aunt Alan, Balfour, Baxter, biography, Bob, Boodle, Colvin, correspondence, De Mattos, death, extracts, Fairchild, family, Fanny, French, friends, Gosse, health, heirs, Henley, influenza, introduction, letters, list, Low, Meredith, money, Monkhouse, mother, property, reflections, reminescences, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, selection, Simpson, Sitwell, Taylor, Vailima, Williams | 2 Comments

“But I am an outsider, and I have a certain liking for a light unto my path”

Posted on July 18, 2021 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2364.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter, Letters, pp. 288-90: http://www.hathitrust.org] [Vailima, 9 or 10 November 1891] 3 encl. – by George there’s going to be 4! Dear Charles, I have just … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged 19th century, 24 Carlyle Mansions, anti-Germanism, £, balance, Baxter, bill, Book of Verses, bookkeeper, bookseller, Chelsea, Cheyne Walk, child's history, clarionet, co-trustees, De Mattos, England, father, Ferriers, Fowke, France, fun, grandfather, Hayhurst, Hayhurst Gurr & Co., Henley, Jones, justice, L.J.R., liberty, Lloyd, London, Lothian Road, Masonry, McClure, money, mother, novelists, Old Bailey Papers, outsider, Pearl Fisher, realism, Records of a family of Engineers, Reverence, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoans, stories, The Beach of Falesá, trust, Vailima, Wigans, Wrecker | 2 Comments

“I so well that I do not know myself”

Posted on August 3, 2019 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2133.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 240-1: http://www.hathitrust.org%5D [Honolulu,] 8 February 1889 My dear Charles, Here we are at Honolulu, and have dismissed the yacht, and lie here … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Baxter, Casco, champagne, cruise, De Mattos, drinking, Fanny, future, health money, Henley, Henley Baby, Honolulu, Kalakatua, Lloyd, mother, Otis, Robert Louis Stevenson, sea-bathing, Valentine, voyage | Leave a comment

“You should have seen us counting over the ship’s specie today: Treasure Island wasn’t a circumstance”

Posted on April 2, 2019 by mafalda

RLS, his mother, stepson Lloyd and servant Valentine left New York on 2 June 1888 and travelled by train to San Francisco, where Fanny joined them. The agreement to charter the schooner Casco was signed on 21 June with her … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged accidents, amend, apology, Auld Lang Syne, £, Baxter, berth, Book of Verses, busines, Casco, Christmas Sermon, Colvin, continent, De Mattos, emotion, endowment, England, expense, Fanny, friendship, harshness, health, hemorrhage, Henley, houses, insurances, investment, Katharine, letters, messages, money, mortgage, Oakland, profit, property, quarrel, rest, return, Robert Louis Stevenson, sea, suspicion, testament, time, Treasure Island, vengeance, wife, yacht, young | Leave a comment

“I am, my dear fellow, the most purely unhappy card on ground”

Posted on March 23, 2019 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 2094.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, 1956, pp. 228-9, at http://www.hathitrust.org] [Manasquan, N.J., 26 May 1888] My dear Charles, I shall just have to ask you to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Baxter, Belle, Boodle, cruise, De Mattos, doubt, duty, egotism, envy, Henley, Manasquan, Mary Ann, money, quarrel, Robert Louis Stevenson, San Francisco, sleep, voyage, young | Leave a comment

“I would give a leg that this were blotted out, and I could sit down with him as of yore”

Posted on March 18, 2019 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of these letters, see Mehew 6, 2090-2093.] W.E. Henley to RLS, with a note by RLS [Enclosed in letter 2093 to Baxter, see below] [Baxter Letters, 1956, pp. 216-7, at http://www.hathitrust.org] Merton Place, Chiswick W., … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged answer, apology, arrears, articles, Baxter, bladders, burthen, capital, Casco, Casco letters, child, codicil, correspondence, De Mattos, defects, deletions, deprecation, devil, devilry, disappointment, distress, door, dote, doubt, dread, dream, enjoy, estrangement, Fanny, feelings, forgiveness, friendship, future, good, headstone, health, heart, heirs, Henley, Hyères, injure, journey, leg, letters, lies, life, Lloyd, Manasquan, marriage, Master of Ballantrae, mistake, money, offences, pain, pardon, plagiarism, pride, private, publishers, quarrel, regret, remarks, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rodin, sailing, San Francisco, schooner, Scribner's Magazine, sea, sentiment, silence, Skerryvore, success, testament, trouble, truth, unfair, unkindness, wearyness, wife, yore | 2 Comments

“So swiftly do great minds jump!”

Posted on March 10, 2019 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 2080.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, 1956, p. 218, at http://www.hathitrust.org] [Envelope marked ‘Private’] [Manasquan, New Jersey, 9 May 1888] My dear Charles, This word to acknowledge … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Baxter, Besant, capital, child, De Mattos, Endowment of the Daughter, estate, friendship, Henley, Katharine, letters, Longman's, Manasquan, New York, quarrel, Robert Louis Stevenson | Leave a comment

“What will a man not do with a woman at his elbow…”

Posted on March 2, 2019 by mafalda

As already explained in previous posts, W.E. Henley’s letter of 9 March to RLS accusing Fanny of plagiarism in publishing under her own name a story based on an earlier one by RLS’s cousin, Katharine de Mattos, had precipitated the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged accusations, Baxter, bitterness, copy, correspondence, cousin, cruelty, De Mattos, dream, Fanny, feelings, friendship, Gosse, hallucination, heart, Henley, Hotel St. Stephen, influence, journey, kindness, Knight Errant, Macbride, money, New York, Nixie, pain, plagiarism, plays, private, protestations, quarrel, reputation, Robert Louis Stevenson, soul, tact, treachery, unkindness, verses, wife | Leave a comment

“Angry with Henley I am not”

Posted on January 25, 2019 by mafalda

The friendship between RLS and W.E. Henley had grown strained for many reasons. Henley disliked RLS’s wife, and felt that she interfered with their friendship. Furthermore, he was more convinced than RLS about the viability of the plays that the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Baxter, codeia, cousins, De Mattos, family, Fanny, friends, heirs, Henley, Katharine, legacy, mother, Nixie, plagiarism, quarrel, Robert Louis Stevenson, San Francisco, Saranac Lake, sleep, testament, will | Leave a comment

“I thocht I was sae dam patriotic j’inin'”

Posted on July 28, 2018 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1964.] To Charles Baxter [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 35-36] Saranac Lake, 12th December ’87 My dear Charles, Will … Continue reading →

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“But I am an outsider, and I have a certain liking for a light unto my path”

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“I so well that I do not know myself”

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“You should have seen us counting over the ship’s specie today: Treasure Island wasn’t a circumstance”

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“I am, my dear fellow, the most purely unhappy card on ground”

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“I would give a leg that this were blotted out, and I could sit down with him as of yore”

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“So swiftly do great minds jump!”

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“What will a man not do with a woman at his elbow…”

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“Angry with Henley I am not”

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“I thocht I was sae dam patriotic j’inin'”

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