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“The remainder of a joint of mutton”

Posted on October 18, 2018 by mafalda

At this time, there was no railway right into the village, and the freshness of supplies could not always be guaranteed. Thirty years later the recipient of the note presented it to the Stevenson Society: it is still kept in … Continue reading →

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“I have never called my verses poetry: they are verse, the verse of a speaker not a singer”

Posted on May 4, 2018 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1909.] To William Sharp [E. Sharp, W. Sharp: A Memory, 1910, pp. 138-139] [Saranac Lake, ? Mid-October 1887] Dear Mr. Sharp, What is the townsman’s blunder? — though I … Continue reading →

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Doctor Stevenson

Posted on April 9, 2016 by mafalda

RLS had used the phrase ‘family theologian’ to describe his father in Travels with a Donkey, 1879. In April 1884 Miss Ferrier (born in Edinburgh in 1844) went out to Hyères and stayed with her friends. [As usual, dots between … Continue reading →

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Bewildering and childering are enough for me

Posted on January 6, 2016 by mafalda

The following is in answer to a letter containing remarks on the proofs of A Child’s Garden of Verses, then going round among some of his friends with the name of Penny Whistles, and on the instalments of Silverado Squatters … Continue reading →

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He has my free permission to borrow from me all that he can find worth borrowing

Posted on August 23, 2015 by mafalda

At Marseilles, while waiting to occupy the house which he had leased in the suburbs of that city, RLS learned that his old friend and kind adviser, James Payn, with whom he had been intimate as sub-editor of the Cornhill … Continue reading →

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