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“The name of my native land is not North Britain, whatever may be the name of yours”

Posted on February 5, 2019 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 2058.] To S.R. Crockett [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 60-62] [Saranac Lake, c. 10 April 1888] Dear Minister of the Free Kirk at Penicuik, For O, man, I cannae read … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged boyhood, Christ, conscience, correspondence, Crockett, delay, first prayer, Free Kirk, letters, minister, North Britain, Penicuik, race, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saranac Lake, Scotland, Scots, Scribners, sermon, Shorter Catechism, sins of omission, stuffiness | Leave a comment

A land of the windmill, and the west wind, and the flowering hawthorn with a little scented letter in the hollow of its trunk

Posted on August 8, 2016 by mafalda

Written in acknowledgment of the gift of a desk, used for writing in bed. [For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1396.] Bonallie Towers, Bournemouth [Postmark 26 February 1885] To Austin Dobson [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged axles, ball, blue, Bournemouth, bypaths, cathedral, city, country houses, cross-road, death, delay, desk, Dobson, Esther, favourites, gift, half-suburban, hawthorn, hollyhocks, kingdom, kings, kites, Land, lantern, letter, masqueraders, miry, Muses, night, present, rector, rhyme, Robert Louis Stevenson, robes, sedans, sequestered, singing, spires, sun, thorny, trunk, uncourtliness, verses, west wind, windmill | 1 Comment

I take my walks abroad, witching the world

Posted on April 26, 2015 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 3, 838.] To Fanny Sitwell [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 56-57] The Cottage, Castleton of Braemar [Mid-August 1881]. … Continue reading →

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Flush-faced they played with old polysyllables

Posted on March 27, 2015 by mafalda

At Davos, the following experiment in Horatian alcaics was suggested by conversations with Horatio (!) F. Brown (historian specialised in the history of Venice) and J.A. Symonds (historian of the Italian Renaissance), on metrical forms, followed by the despatch of … Continue reading →

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The letters come between seven and nine in the evening

Posted on March 9, 2015 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 3, 763.] To his parents [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 21-23] Hôtel Bélvèdere, Davos, December 21, 1880. My dear People, … Continue reading →

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I do not think many wives are better loved than mine will be

Posted on December 20, 2014 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 3, 682.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1912, pp. 132-135] 608 Bush Street, San Francisco, California, Jan. 23, … Continue reading →

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Read and enjoyed right round upon the other side of the big Football

Posted on September 3, 2014 by mafalda

This correspondent, living at the time in Australia, was probably the first to write and seek RLS’s acquaintance from admiration of his work, meaning especially the Cornhill essays of the Virginibus Puerisque series so far as they had yet appeared, … Continue reading →

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“The name of my native land is not North Britain, whatever may be the name of yours”

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A land of the windmill, and the west wind, and the flowering hawthorn with a little scented letter in the hollow of its trunk

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I take my walks abroad, witching the world

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Flush-faced they played with old polysyllables

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The letters come between seven and nine in the evening

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I do not think many wives are better loved than mine will be

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Read and enjoyed right round upon the other side of the big Football

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