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“I am learning to forget I am an invalid”

Posted on July 13, 2023 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2640.] To Arthur Johnstone [Johnstone, Recollections of RLS in the Pacific, 1905, p. 120.] Sans Souci [Hotel], [Waikiki,] October 20 [1893] Sir, Will you please to state – this … Continue reading →

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“Vailima is beautiful and my home and tomb that is to be; though it’s a wrench not to be planted in Scotland”

Posted on June 3, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2624.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, pp. 227-33] [Vailima,] 23rd August [1893] My dear Colvin, Your pleasing letter, … Continue reading →

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“People mayn’t be like their books, they are their books”

Posted on February 23, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Edward Verrall Lucas. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2550.] To J.M. Barrie [Lucas’ Annual, 1914, pp. 155-61] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima, Samoa, April 2nd or … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Adorner of the Ugly, amanuensis, Apemama, appearances, applause, apron-strings, art, author, barrel-organ, Barrie, Belle, books, boots, caricatures, Carlyle, cheating, cigarettes, civility, clothing, coat, Cold blasts from Holland, cords, days of prunes and prism, De Quincey, doctor, dresses, Duchesse lace, dukes, dusky brides, Dutch, elegance, eyeglasses, family life, Fanny, flowers, forlorn, frocks, grocer, guests, hair-cutting, hairdress, haughtiness, health, hell, hibernation, house, house-boys, inferiors, instruments, intolerance, Isobel Strong, Latin, Lloyd, Loia, manners, Marquesas, menagerie, mud, music, nails, Napoleon, native boys, natives, pajama, Partizan, pen, perambulator, Piccadilly, poem, Polynesian Race, riding breeches, rings, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, sash, Scotch, selfishness, shell-back guests, shirt, silk socks, silk stockings, studs, Sydney, Tamaitai, Tame Celebrity, Teuila, ties, toe-rings, Tusitala, undershirt, universe, Vailima, velvet dress, velvet jacket, whip, Wuthering Heights | 1 Comment

“All send me off on a month’s holiday to Sydney”

Posted on February 3, 2023 by mafalda

[For critical edition of this letter see Mehew 8, 2540.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters pp. 324-5: http://www.hathitrust.org] [Vailima, c. 17 February 1893] My dear Charles, I have had the influenza, as I believe you know; this has been followed … Continue reading →

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“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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“‘Mr. Stevenson, your turtle is dead'”

Posted on February 12, 2022 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2415.] To Sidney Colvin (continued) [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 63-83] [Vailima, Sunday, 29th May 1892] On Saturday, 28th, I was awakened about … 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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“You will know more about the South Seas after you have read my little tale than if you had read a library”

Posted on May 23, 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, 2351.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp.342-8] [Vailima], Sept. 28, 1891 My dear Colvin, Since I last … Continue reading →

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“Gaiety is what these children want; to sit in a crowd, tell stories and pass jests”

Posted on October 4, 2020 by mafalda

RLS had written more chapters of his next novel, The Wrecker, and momentarely given up the High Woods of Ulufanua, the title first given to The Beach of Falesá, which was to be published in the book Island Nights’ Entertainments, 1893. … Continue reading →

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“My loneliness has a certain pleasure”

Posted on May 10, 2020 by mafalda

[For critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2235.] To Charles Baxter [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 199-202] Hotel Sebastopol, Noumea [late July 1890] My dear Charles, I have stayed here a week while Lloyd and my wife continue to … Continue reading →

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“I am learning to forget I am an invalid”

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“Vailima is beautiful and my home and tomb that is to be; though it’s a wrench not to be planted in Scotland”

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“People mayn’t be like their books, they are their books”

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“All send me off on a month’s holiday to Sydney”

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

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“‘Mr. Stevenson, your turtle is dead'”

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

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“You will know more about the South Seas after you have read my little tale than if you had read a library”

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“Gaiety is what these children want; to sit in a crowd, tell stories and pass jests”

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“My loneliness has a certain pleasure”

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