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“I am like to be a millionaire if this goes on, and be publicly hanged at the social revolution”
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1907.] To William Archer [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 18-19] Saranac Lake, [Mid-]October 1887 Dear Archer, Many … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adirondacks, air, Archer, biographer, Black Arrow, bourgeois, cold, despondency, dying, eating, editor, essays, fires, health, hills, Indiana, Lloyd, millionaire, money, mother, payment, pencilings, proofs, revolution, Robert Louis Stevenson, salary, Saranac Lake, Scribners, shame, shrew, sleeping, Tomarcher, wife, Wondrous Tale
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It is path-breaking and epoch-making; but I do not think the public will be readily convoked to its perusal
[A usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and criticaledition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1357.] To W.E. Henley [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 260-261] Bonallie Towers, Bournemouth [Late December 1884] My dear … Continue reading →
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Tagged aching, ailments, ankles, bed, bite, Bogue, Bournemouth, Christmas card, Colvin, cynical, dog, dying, epoch-making, family, Fanny, father, health, hemorrhage, Henley, James, mother, On Style in Literature, path-breaking, perusal, public, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scots, stick
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‘His timbers yet are (indifferently) sound, and he may float again’
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 4, 1254.] To W.E. Henley [Covin 1911, 2, pp. 211-213] La Solitude, Hyères, April 20th, 1884 I … Continue reading →
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We have had many other wild misadventures
RLS’s wife extremely vivid and charteristic account of the weird misadventures that befell the pair during their retreat from St. Marcel, Marseille, in search of a healthier home. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, … Continue reading →
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O never, never any family for me! I am cured of that
The landlord’s child, Robbie Carson, survived. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 3, 688]. To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 1, p. 329] 608 Bush Street, … Continue reading →
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Away to the ends of the earth, and the furthest star, and the blank regions of nothing
[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 2, 330]. To Fanny Sitwell [Colvin 1911, pp. 194-198] [Edinburgh] Sunday [1 November 1874]. Here is my long story: … Continue reading →
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