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“I was meant to die young, and the gods do not love me”

Posted on January 20, 2024 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2727.] To Frances Sitwell [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 302-3] [Vailima, 24 or 25 April 1894] My dear friend, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged baronetcy, Burne-Jones, Catriona, chiefs, cottage, death, epitaph, family, Fanny, gardening, gods, handwriting, health, horse, memory, old age, photographs, portrait, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Sitwell, stage, Tusitala, Vailima | Leave a comment

“By a reaction, when your letter is a little decent, mine is to be naked and unashamed”

Posted on November 25, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2705.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters 1812, pp. 247-8] [Vailima, c. 26 February 1894] Dear Colvin, By … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged art, Attwater, Auchendrane, Balfour, ball, barbarians, Cauldwell, civility, Colvin, critique, Crosse, de Lautreppe, Delacroix, Ebb Tide, family, family pride, forbears, French, grandfather, guests, insolence, insult, journalism, letters, mail, Meredith, mosaic manner, MUres, negro, peace, reading, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rowallan, Samoa, sculptor, sensitiveness, tapua word, Vailima, Verrall, war, Weir of Hermiston, Wurmbrand | Leave a comment

“Could we ever stand Europe again?”

Posted on August 5, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2651.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, pp. 235-9] [Vailima, Late November 1893] My dear Colvin, This is disgraceful. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Apia, ava, Balfour, barbarism, beef, Belle, birthday, Britain, bush, Butler, captain, carriage, chamberlain, Chief Justice, chiefs, civilisations, Colvin, cook, daily errand man, David Balfour, diarrhoea, driving, Eliga, Europe, family, Fanny, feast, Feiloa'i, Fighting Gladiator, filigree, fono, food, fruit, gardener, gate paddock, groom, guests, hall, health, horse-posts, house boys, humbug, interpreter, Iopu, Lang, Leuelu, libation, Lloyd, London, Lū, Master of Ballantrae, May day, Misifolo, mountain road, outside boys, overseer, pigs, pork, prayer, prison, prisoners, Protestant boys, provost, Pulu, riding, road, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoan, Semelé, Seumanu, shoes, smiling, society, soft feet, Sosimo, spit-ava, stockings, Tali, talking-man, Talolo, Tama-ona, Tasi Sele, Ti'a, tobacco, Turkey, uniforms, Vailima, Vaisigano, valet, visitors, wages, washman, women, Wrecker, Wurmbrand | 1 Comment

“Vailima is beautiful and my home and tomb that is to be; though it’s a wrench not to be planted in Scotland”

Posted on June 3, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2624.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, pp. 227-33] [Vailima,] 23rd August [1893] My dear Colvin, Your pleasing letter, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Apolima, Appin murder, Atlantic, Attwater, Balfour, band, beastly place, beer and skittles, Bickford, Burns, Catriona, characters, Colvin, Crockett, David Balfour, death, dedication, devil, dictating, doctor, Ebb Tide, elephantiasis, falsification, family, Fammy, food, French, garden, guests, heather, Hole, Honolulu, Huish, Irving, James Stewart, joke, Katoomba, Kidnapped, life, Lloyd, malaria, Manono, maps, Mariposa, martyrs, Mataafa, Meredith, Monte Cristo, mosquitos, Natural History, Norseman, party, play, plovers, politics, proofs, Records of a family of Engineers, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rocky Mountains, Ross, Samoa, Scotland, Simon Fraser, sleep, St. Ives, steamer, Stickit Minister, Tamasese, tins, tomb, Vailima, verandah, war, whaups, white officials | Leave a comment

“No rest but the grave for Sir Walter!”

Posted on May 7, 2023 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2610.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 334-6] [Vailima, ? 18 July 1893] My dear Charles, I return herewith Arnot (which unfortunately I already possessed) and Balfour’s Letters, to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged account, Analecta, Arnot, Austin, £, back rights, Balfour, Baxter, Belle, Birmingham, Bob, Carstairs, Cassells, Catriona, Colvin, death, Ebb Tide, Edinburgh, England, expense, family, father, grave, Grierson of Lag, Hamer, health, Honolulu, Illustrated London News, income, influenza, intellects, Island Nights' Entertainments, Justice Clerk, Katharine, Life of Stair, Lloyd, Mackay, magazines, memoirs, Mitchell, money, non-work, offer, old age, prices, Robert Louis Stevenson, royalties, salary, Samoa, Scott, Scribner's, St. Ives, States, Stinchar, Vailima, war, will, Wodrow, Young Chevalier | Leave a comment

“Well, the war has at last begun”

Posted on April 21, 2023 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 8, 2595.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 217-30] [Vailima,] Saturday, 24th (?) June [1893] My … Continue reading →

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“I shall never see Auld Reekie. I shall never set my foot again upon the heather”

Posted on March 22, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2568.] To Samuel Rutherford Crockett [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 195-8] Vailima, Samoa, May 17th, 1893 Dear Mr Crockett, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Attwater, Auld Reekie, bandits, barratry, Baxter, Bookman, Burns, characters, Clencorse Church, country, Crockett, Davis, death, destroying, doom, drunkenness, Ebb Tide, Edinburgh, family, Fisher's Tryst, Footnote to History, Free Kirk, Glencorse, Glencorse Burn, Hades, heather, influenza, ingratitude, Justice-Clerk, Latin, Lloyd, Man was made to mourn, Mauricewood, meals, minister, money, Osbourne, prayer, review, rewriting, riding, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, smoking, Stickit Minister and Some Common Men, suicide, sun, Sunday, sweetheart, Sydney, Vailima, vitriol, Weir of Hermiston, wife, working, world | Leave a comment

“I protest wholly against any idea of a biography”

Posted on January 24, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, for critical edition of this letter see Mehew 8, 2524.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 321-4: http://www.hathitrust.org] Private and confidential!!! [Dictated to Belle Strong] Vailima, 8 January 1893 My dear Charles, I have just had a turn … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged adverisement, Aunt Alan, Balfour, Baxter, biography, Bob, Boodle, Colvin, correspondence, De Mattos, death, extracts, Fairchild, family, Fanny, French, friends, Gosse, health, heirs, Henley, influenza, introduction, letters, list, Low, Meredith, money, Monkhouse, mother, property, reflections, reminescences, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, selection, Simpson, Sitwell, Taylor, Vailima, Williams | 2 Comments

“‘Mr. Stevenson, your turtle is dead'”

Posted on February 12, 2022 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2415.] To Sidney Colvin (continued) [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 63-83] [Vailima, Sunday, 29th May 1892] On Saturday, 28th, I was awakened about … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Across the Plains, Apia, Arrick, Belle, Carr, Catriona, Ceylon, Chief Justice, Clarke, Colvin, consulship, correspondence, critics, curaçoa, David Balfour, deads, deportation, dictation, divinity, doctor, Downing Street, Elena, Europe, Faauma, family, feast, Footnote to History, Gibson, guns, Haggard, Hamplet, Highlands, horses, income, kava, ladies, Lafaele, Latin, lèse-majesty, Lloyd, madman, man-of-war, manuscript, medicine, Metu, Miss Grant, Mitaiele, moon, Moors, mother, natives, Old Man Virulent, Paatalise, punch, rain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoan, Savaii, Savea, Simelé, songs, Steward, Tauilo, Taylor, thunders, Tomas, turtle, Upolu, Vailima, visitors, Wallis, Whitmee | Leave a comment

“I expect Henry James to come and break a crust or two with us”

Posted on August 28, 2021 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, 2374.] To Henry James [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 376-8] [Vailima] December 7th, 1891 My dear Henry James, Thanks … Continue reading →

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“I was meant to die young, and the gods do not love me”

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“By a reaction, when your letter is a little decent, mine is to be naked and unashamed”

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“Could we ever stand Europe again?”

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“Vailima is beautiful and my home and tomb that is to be; though it’s a wrench not to be planted in Scotland”

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“No rest but the grave for Sir Walter!”

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“Well, the war has at last begun”

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“I shall never see Auld Reekie. I shall never set my foot again upon the heather”

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“‘Mr. Stevenson, your turtle is dead'”

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“I expect Henry James to come and break a crust or two with us”

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