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“Je me croyais trop vieux – au moins trop quarante-ans – pour faire de nouveaux amis”

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1769.] To Auguste Rodin [Colvin 1912, p. 225] Skerryvore, Bournemouth, February, 1887 Mon cher ami, Je vous néglige, et cependant ce n’est véritablement pas de ma faute. J’ai fait … Continue reading

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“How am I to vote?”

Written after his return from a visit to London, and after the decision of PM Gladstone to dissolve Parliament on the defeat of the Home Rule Bill (June 8, 1886). As to the tale entitled The Travelling Companion, it was thought … Continue reading

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