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“I started in the dark on foot, with a revolver, and my spurs on my bare feet”

Posted on January 19, 2024 by mafalda

Sidney Colvin had written to RLS on 21 March 1894: ‘Do these things interest you at all: or do any of our white affair? I could remark in passing that for three letters or more you have not uttered a … Continue reading →

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“It might be as well to get me a book on balloon ascensions”

Posted on January 6, 2024 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2721.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters pp. 350-2: http://www.hathitrust.org%5D [Dictated to Belle] Vailima, 17 April 1894 My dear Charles, I. St. Ives is now well on its way into … Continue reading →

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