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“I have called the one person myself, and the other the other fellow”

Posted on March 12, 2022 by mafalda

This letter comes to us from F.W.H. Myers’s book, The Subliminal Consciousness, ‘Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research’, 1894. In 1882 Myers was one of the founders of that Society, of which RLS was a member. In 1886 he … 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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“But I know pleasure still; pleasure with a thousand faces, and none perfect”

Posted on December 27, 2020 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 7, 2307.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters I, 1895, pp. 102-9] [Vailima] Friday 19 [actually 20] March [1891] My dear S.C., You probably expect that now I am back at Vailima … Continue reading →

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“I never knew the world was so amusing”

Posted on August 25, 2019 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2137.] To Bob Stevenson [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 114-8] Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, February 1889 My dear Bob, My … Continue reading →

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The marks of a reader, such as one imagines for oneself in dreams, thoughtful, critical, and kind

Posted on September 25, 2016 by mafalda

An anonymous review of the Child’s Garden of Verses, appearing in the Pall Mall Gazette for March 1885, gave RLS so much pleasure that he wrote (in the four words, ‘Now who are you?’) to inquire the name of its … Continue reading →

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O, when shall I find the story of my dreams?

Posted on June 29, 2014 by mafalda

Ch.E. C.B. Appleton was the editor of the literary journal Academy,1869-79. The Portfolio paper about Scotland and England: project never carried out; thoughts on the subject ultimately appeared in ‘The Foreigner at home’, CornhillMagazine, 1882. [As usual, dots between square … Continue reading →

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A wild energy that we never feel except in dreams

Posted on February 6, 2014 by mafalda

This is addressed to a favourite cousin of the Balfour (maternal) clan, Maud (1844-1919), married to a Cambridge professor, Churchill Babington, whose home is at the college living of Cockfield near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. RLS has visited him in … Continue reading →

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