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“Is it possible for a man in Samoa to be in touch with the great heart of the People?”

Posted on May 1, 2020 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 6, 2233.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 193-9] S.S. Janet Nicoll off Peru Island, Kingsmills … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Apia, beach, Beru Island, Brownell, Burke, Burlingame, Cannibal Islands, Carew, consuls, correspondents, culture, Dr. Hyde, Equator, estate, Fanny, Faxon, Goldwin Smith, health, home, Janet Nicoll, Jekyll & Hyde, Kingsmill Group, Lang, Lloyd, Low, Master of Ballantrae, missionaries, natives, penny papers, people, poems, pros & cons, railway, Random Memories, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saint-Gaudens, Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Scribner, Scribner's Magazine, serialization, ship, Sign of the Ship, South Seas, Stimson, Sydney, travels, typewriter, Vailima, whites, William James, Wrecker | 1 Comment

“If he had not been Shelley’s son, people would have thought more of him”

Posted on January 27, 2020 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 6, 2198.] To Lady Taylor [Colvin 1912, pp. 261-3] Apia, Samoa, Jan. 20th, 1890 My dear Lady … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Apia, England, enjoyment, Equator, estate, Fanny, friends, health, home, landscape, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoan War, Shelley, South Seas, Sydney, Taylor, Towns & Co., Upolu, Vailima, voyage, wife | Leave a comment

“As I write, the breeze is brisking up, doors are beginning to slam and shutters”

Posted on January 22, 2020 by mafalda

The following was written soon after the termination of the voyage of the Equator and RLS’s first landing in Samoa, where he was engaged in collecting materials for the account (then intended to be the concluding part of his great … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Ah Fu, Apemama, Austin, Baxter, Belle, Britain, Clarke, cruise, Equator, Fanny, Fiji, Footnote to History, friendship, German, Germany, Gilberts, Haendel, harbor, health, History, hurricane, Kinnoull, Knappe, landscape, letters, Lloyd, Lothians, Lubeck, mail, Master of Ballantrae, Mataafa, men-of-war, mistery, Moors, mother, natives, notes, Oliphant, Pacific Ocean, plantations, riding, rivers, Robert Louis Stevevnson, Samoa, Samoan, Samoan War, school, Simele, South Seas, strong, superstition, Sydney, Tamasese, US, voyage, weather, Wrong Box | 2 Comments

“Play Logie o’ Buchan, slow, soft and simply”

Posted on January 18, 2020 by mafalda

This Scottish song has been ascribed to Lady Anne Barnard, the authoress of “Auld Robin Gray,” but it is of older date than her life. Mr. Peter Buchan, formerly of Peterhead, now of Glasgow, says that it was written by … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Chismore, Equator, flageolet, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, song | 2 Comments

“We are now about to rise, like whales, from this long dive”

Posted on January 10, 2020 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 6, 2192.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 169-71] Schooner Equator, at sea, Wednesday, 4th … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged alimentation, American marine, Apemama, beef steak, blu-bottle, Burlingame, calm, castaways, corselets, deck, Equator, Gilberts, health, Honolulu, Kamschatka, longing, Low, low islands, mango, Master of Ballantrae, mistery, MS, Napoleon, opium, Pacific Ocean, Pinkerton, pleasure, reef, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa Sidney, San Francisco, schooner, Scribner's Magazine, sea, ship, South Sea Yarns, South Seas, Tembinoka, weather, whales, wife, wreck | Leave a comment

“To other lands and nights my fancy turned”

Posted on January 5, 2020 by mafalda

The following, written in the last days of the sail southwards from the Gilberts to Samoa, contains the full plan of the South Sea book as it had then been conceived. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged 17 Heriot Row, Apia, blackbirds, boats, Bournemouth, British Museum, chine, Colvin, cruise, draughts, Edinburgh, Equator, Fanny, father, fire, ghods, History, home, In the South Seas, islands, Lloyd, London, Monument, mother, night, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocfean, photographs, playing, poem, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, schooner, sea, Skerryvore, skylarking, Songs of Travel, South Seas, statues, storm, sun, Tembinoka, Thomas Stevenson, verses, voyage, war, weather, wifes, Winslow Reef | Leave a comment

“Try to believe in our continued existence”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by mafalda

[For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2184.] To Lady Taylor [Colvin 1912, pp. 260-1] Honolulu, June 19th, 1889. My dear Lady Taylor, Our new home, the Equator, trading schooner, rides at the buoy to-night, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged atlas, coral, Equator, existence, Fanny, fun, Gilberts, health, Honolulu, life, Lloyd, Pacific, phantoms, Robert Louis Stevenson, roost, schooner, sea, shores, South Seas, Sydney, Taylor, Towns & Co. | Leave a comment

“Aita te pahi – no ship”

Posted on December 21, 2019 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2181.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 250-1; http://www.hathitrust.org%5D Honolulu, 16 June 1889 My dear Charles, Herewith a certified copy of my new will necessitated by fresh … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged anxiety, assets, Austin, £, Baxter, Belle, bills, buoy, chronies, correspondence, cruise, debts, doctor, eagerness, Equator, expences, Fanny, friends, Hawaiian Hotel, health, Honolulu, lanai, lecture, letters, nurse, panorama, Robert Louis Stevenson, salutations, schooner, sea, South Seas, strong, superstition, Sydney, Tahitian, testament, Towns & Co., visions, voyage | Leave a comment

“The night draws on and I must be on ‘the eight seas’ tomorrow”

Posted on November 3, 2019 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2161.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 246-7: http://www.hathitrust.org%5D [Honolulu, 25 April 1889] My dear Charles, I forget if I have made my plans clear to you. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged American, Apia, Baxter, Casco, cave, chamberlains, church, Consul, crew, cruise, Ebb-Tide, eight seas, English, Equator, French, Germans, Gilberts, gin, harbour, Hawaii, Honolulu, hurricane, Kamehameha, Kona, Lloyd, mail, Papeete, Pearlfisher, pirates, proceeds, rivals, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robin Run-the-Hedge, Samoa, San Francisco, schooner, sea, seaboard, seamen, South Seas, Tahiti, treasure, yarn, young | 1 Comment

“I’m direckit at space”

Posted on October 18, 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, 2158.] To Charles Baxter [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 138-9] Honolulu, [postmark 12] April 1889 My dear Charles, As … Continue reading →

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“Is it possible for a man in Samoa to be in touch with the great heart of the People?”

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“If he had not been Shelley’s son, people would have thought more of him”

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“As I write, the breeze is brisking up, doors are beginning to slam and shutters”

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“Play Logie o’ Buchan, slow, soft and simply”

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“We are now about to rise, like whales, from this long dive”

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“To other lands and nights my fancy turned”

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“Try to believe in our continued existence”

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“Aita te pahi – no ship”

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“The night draws on and I must be on ‘the eight seas’ tomorrow”

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“I’m direckit at space”

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