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“Where is the bottle? … you will find it by the Engineer’s Thumb!”

Posted on May 26, 2023 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2623.] To Arthur Conan Doyle [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 237-8] Vailima, August 23rd, 1893 My dear Dr. Conan Doyle, I am reposing after a somewhat severe experience upon which … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Adventures of the Engineer's Thumb, Bottle Imp, coach and horse, coining, Condé, criminal, decapitation, Doyle, Du Chaylu, Dumas, Gobbling, Historical Novel, Louis XIV, Louvois, Maintenon, Mural, police, railway, Refugees, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoan, Simelé, steam hammer, storytelling, Tusitala, Vailima, Vanderputty | Leave a comment

“A fellow cannot stand aside and look on at such an exhibition as our government”

Posted on February 17, 2022 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2416.] To Andrew Lang [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 91-3] [Vailima, Late May – Early June 1892] My dear Lang, I knew you would prove a trusty purveyor. The … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Baring, Behring Sea, Blair of Balmyle, books, Browne, Cameronian, castle, Catriona, characters, David Balfour, Dumas, Dunkirk, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Government, Holland, Lang, Lord Advocate, messagers, Miss Grants, More, novelist, Paris, petitions, politics, proclamations, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, times, Vailima, Young Chevalier | Leave a comment

“You must translate me soon”

Posted on November 7, 2020 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, 2290.] To Marcel Schwob [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 277-9] [Apia, 3 January 1891] My dear Sir, Sapristi, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged adventure, Apia, art, ballads, Chatto, Dumas, engineer, Fanny, female parts, France, French, Greek, Hamlet, Henry, Horace, Hugo, Kidnapped, King Lear, Latin, life, literature, Lloyd, Master of Ballantrae, Memories and Portraits, Othello, Paris, pen, photographs, pleasure, Prince Otto, Richard III, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Schwob, scotticisms, Shakespeare, South Seas, Tacitus, translation, travel, Underwoods, Vailima, Vicomte de Bragelonne, Villon, weather | 1 Comment

“If you would but take a fancy to translate a book of mine that I myself admired…”

Posted on May 15, 2020 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2238.] To Marcel Schwob [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 206-9] Union Club, Sydney, August 19th 1890 My dear Mr. Schwob, Mais, alors, vous avez tous les bonheurs, vous! … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged 17 Heriot Row, Apia, art, bed, Black Arrow, characters, cold, Desprez, Dickon Crookback, Dumas, Ebb-Tide, France, French, Frenchmen, illustrations, In the South Seas, Jekyll, Lloyd, Master of Ballantrae, Otto, Pearl Fisher, permission, Porthos, Richard III, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Schwob, settlement, Shakespeare, Sydney, translations, Treasure of Franchard, Union Club, Vailima, Vicomte de Bragelonne, Von Rosen, women, Wrecker | Leave a comment

“Had I taken time, I would not have set pen to paper to you about this wretchedness”

Posted on January 30, 2019 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 2057.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, 1956, pp. 206-207, at http://www.hathitrust.org] [Envelope marked ‘Private’] [Saranac Lake, 10 April 1888] My dear Charles, I have written you today … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Athenaeum Club, Baxter, bill, Dumas, Edinburgh, Henley, India Street, Pollexfen, Pollington, private, quarrel, resignation, Robert Louis Ctevenson, Saranac Lake, Savile, self-restraint, sleep, verses, wretchedness | Leave a comment

“Always cutting the flesh off the bones”

Posted on November 16, 2018 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 2011.] To William Archer [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 50-51] Saranac, [c. 12] February 1888 My dear Archer, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged amateur, Archer, art, condensation, correspondence, cutting, desire, doctor, Dumas, education, Fanny, health, invention, Jenkin, moral, preach, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saranac Lake, sentences, sickness, story, story-teller, Tomarcher, writing | Leave a comment

“I get some work done every day with a devil of a heave”

Posted on July 1, 2018 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1957.] To W.E. Henley [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 31-32] Saranac [c. 5 December 1887] My dear lad, I … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas’s, All Fours, annoyances, Boston, business, Charles Fox, death, dedication, Dumas, Fairchild, Fanny, Finsbury Tontine, games, Haggard, Hamlet, Henley, humor, Lang, Lethe, Lloyd, Lord, Memories and Portraits, millionaires, money, old age, Origines de la France Contemporaine, Port Admiral, Put, Robert Louis Stevenson, rules, Saranac Lake, stage, Taine, The Wrong Box, Tory, weather, wife | 1 Comment

– Ah, monsieur, vous êtes bien jeune! –

Posted on July 28, 2017 by mafalda

In his recent days in Paris, RLS’s chivalrous feelings had been shocked by the scene in the Demi-Monde of Dumas fils, where Suzanne d’Ange is trapped by Olivier de Jalin. William Archer, the Scottish critic and writer, had asked RLS … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Archer, brutality, Demi-Monde, Dumas, French, Indignation, Paris, Robert Louis Stevenson, Skerryvore, Theatre Français | 1 Comment

“If Mr Shaw is thirty, he had best be told that he is a romantic, and pursue romance with his eyes open”

Posted on April 15, 2017 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1575.] To William Archer [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 48-50] [Skerryvore, c. 9 March 1886] My dear Archer, What am I to say? I have read your friend’s book with … Continue reading →

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The romance ties precisely in the freeing of two spirits from these court intrigues

Posted on January 6, 2017 by mafalda

RLS’s novel, Prince Otto, was published in October 1885. The following refers to two reviews of it – one of them by Henley (in the Athenaeum of 21 November) which to the writer’s displeasure had been pruned by the editor … Continue reading →

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“Where is the bottle? … you will find it by the Engineer’s Thumb!”

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“A fellow cannot stand aside and look on at such an exhibition as our government”

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“You must translate me soon”

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“If you would but take a fancy to translate a book of mine that I myself admired…”

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“Had I taken time, I would not have set pen to paper to you about this wretchedness”

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“Always cutting the flesh off the bones”

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“I get some work done every day with a devil of a heave”

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– Ah, monsieur, vous êtes bien jeune! –

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“If Mr Shaw is thirty, he had best be told that he is a romantic, and pursue romance with his eyes open”

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The romance ties precisely in the freeing of two spirits from these court intrigues

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