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“Well, the war has at last begun”

Posted on April 21, 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, 2595.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 217-30] [Vailima,] Saturday, 24th (?) June [1893] My … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged '94, aboriginal, Ahrens, ammunition, Apia, Balfour, ball, Belle, Bickford, Bishop, blackened faces, brandy, breakfast, bugle, bush, Ceylon, Chief Justice, chiefs, children, Chinaman, Christmas, Clarke, Colvin, council-house, Cusack-Smith, dinner, doctors, drums, Faamuiná, family, Fanny, flag of truce, ford, foreigners, Frank, French, Gase-gase, Germans, girls, Grevsmühl, Haggard, Hawaii, headache, heads, health, HMS Katoomba, HMS Orlando, horses, hospital, hotel, international, kava, king, Lady Jersey, Laupepa, lava-lava, Letonu, Leulumoega, Lloyd, luncheon, Mafaafa, malae, Malie, Manono, Matafele, Miss Large, Mission House, mother, Mulinuu, ocean, orator, orderlies, peep-show, Pelepa, Penny Whistle, picket, pigs, plantation, Public Hall Committee, quinine, rain, rainy season, Rémy, riding, river, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoan, San Francisco, Savaii, Scots, sea-sickness, Secretary of State, selui, Sina, smoking, Sosimo, starlight, States, tales, Tanugamanono, tatoos, Taupou, teetotaller, temperance, tennis, threats, Ulu, Vaiala, Vailima, Vaimauga, Vaimusu, Vaiusu, war, warships, weapons, weather, whites, Winchesters, wooden pillows, wounded | Leave a comment

“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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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged 17th century, accounts, Across the Plains, Americans, Balfour, Barclay, barons, Baxter, Belle, Berwick, Burlingame, business, Canada, charts, Child's Garden of Verses, Clan, codicil, Colvin, copies, copyright, copyright bill, correspondence, council of war, Dance of Death, David Balfour, death, Decisions, descent, dinner, domicile, editor, Family History, Fountainhall, genealogies, Harper, Hartford, Hirdmanshiels, honour, income, Justice Clerk, Kidnapped, Lain, letters, Macgregor Stevenson, MacSteen, Mary Stewart, McClure, Memorials, music, North Ayrshire, overproduction, people, Perth, Pinkerton, Pitcairn, pounds, proofs, proscription, publishers, Robert Louis Stevenson, royalty, Samoa, Scotland, Scribner's Sons, series, short story, States, Stevensons, syntax, Thurston, Twain, Vailima, Weir of Hermiston, Western Pacific, Westlothian, will | Leave a comment

“My wife protests against The Waif-Woman and I am instructed to report the same to you”

Posted on November 19, 2022 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 7, 2496.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 152-4] [Vailima, November 30, 1892] My dear Colvin, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Senza categoria | Tagged amanuensis, amusement, £, Baxter, Beach of Falesá, Belle, bills, blushing, Bottle Imp, cable, Cassells, Colvin, copies, credit, deportation, Deputy Commissioner, dinner, drinks, Fanny, French, German Firm, house, Island Nights' Entertainments, Isle of Voices, life, Lloyd, long letter, mail, melodrama, O. Smith, Plains, political prisoner, races, Robert Louis Stevenson, saga, spending, style, type-writing, Vailima, Waif Woman | Leave a comment

“All well, not yet put in prison, whatever may be in store for me”

Posted on October 16, 2022 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 7, 2477.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 135-42] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima, October 28th [actually 27th], 1892 … Continue reading →

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“I set off barefoot, with my trousers over my knees, and a macintosh”

Posted on July 9, 2022 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin; for full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2452.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 100-113, continued] [Vailima] Tuesday [30 August 1892]. The wild round of … Continue reading →

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“The world is too much with us”

Posted on July 3, 2022 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin; for full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2452.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 100-113, continued] [Monday 29 August 1892] Then we came home; Belle, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged An Object of Pity, Apia, Austin, Balfour, Beach of Falesá, Belle, Burney, case, Child-Villiers, choir, Colvin, curaçoa, David Balfour, dinner, Eeles, Gasigasi, Gurr's, Haggard's, Henry, horses, Hoskyn, Lady Jersey, lantern-light, Leigh, Lloyd, lunch, midshipmen, music, Nares, Ouida, Robert Louis Stevenson, servants, sketches, sunday service, Tawaitai Sili, tryst, Vailima, wardroom, Wiltshire | 1 Comment

“I am Samoan enough to have been moved”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by mafalda

[Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 100-113; Mehew 7, 2452] This letter tells without preface the story of the expedition planned in the preceding, see https://lettersofrobertlouisstevenson.wordpress.com/2022/05/22/august-14-1745/. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin; for full, correct and critical … Continue reading →

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“Then came the turn of ‘le alii Tusitala'”

Posted on February 5, 2022 by mafalda

According to Fanny’s diary, this third visit to Mataafa on 27 May 1892‘was simply to see the performances at a great fono [meeting], an excellent piece of business for the novelist, and let the old lady [RLS’s mother Margaret] have … Continue reading →

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“I wish to die in my boots; no more Land of Counterpane for me”

Posted on January 15, 2022 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2408.] To Sidney Colvin (continued) [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 44-62] [Vailima, 9 May 1892] Meanwhile my business was still untransacted. And … Continue reading →

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“Life is a steigh brae”

Posted on September 19, 2021 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2378.] To Sidney Colvin (continued) [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 378-92] [Vailima,] Jan. 2nd [1892] I woke this morning … Continue reading →

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“Well, the war has at last begun”

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

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“My wife protests against The Waif-Woman and I am instructed to report the same to you”

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“All well, not yet put in prison, whatever may be in store for me”

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“I set off barefoot, with my trousers over my knees, and a macintosh”

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“The world is too much with us”

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“I am Samoan enough to have been moved”

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“Then came the turn of ‘le alii Tusitala'”

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“I wish to die in my boots; no more Land of Counterpane for me”

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“Life is a steigh brae”

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