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“In the old, honoured Scottish phrase, your affectionate cousin”

Posted on April 18, 2023 by mafalda

This letter is addressed to a very remote cousin, James Stevenson (1827-96), an iron merchant of Glasgow, who later lived at Stirling, in quest of information about the origins of the family. [For correct and critical edition of this letter, … Continue reading →

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“The proper handling of an author’s books as a whole is his best and really his only good advertisement”

Posted on March 7, 2023 by mafalda

[For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2555.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 326-31: http://www.hathitrust.org%5D [Vailima 16 April 1893] My dear Charles, Yours of 22nd Feb. and 16th March to hand. I seem to have … Continue reading →

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