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“Well, laigh i’ your lug, sir, the clue was found. My style is from the Covenanting writers”

Posted on September 19, 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, 2666.] To J.M. Barrie [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 264-7] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima, Samoa, December 7th, 1893 … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Addison, age, Allahakbarries, Auld Licht, Balfour, Barrie, beard, birthday, bricks, Broddie, Chief Justice, Clark, Covenant, Cricket, critics, Cummy, Edinburgh, Germany, gossip, health, Honolulu, illustrations, introduction, Latin, mantuamaker, newspapers, novel, politics, President of the Apia Municipal Council, rhymes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Scots, servant, Shields, Souwegia, Three Powers, Tibby Birse, unconscious, Vailima, Walker, Window in Thrums, Wodrow | 1 Comment

“The greater world… the world where men still live a man’s life”

Posted on June 20, 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, 2357.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 353-60] [Vailima] Monday, October 24th [actually 26th, 1891] My dear Carthew, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged age, Apia, Aryan history, Austin lessons, beer, Belle, biscuit, Border, breakfast, Buridan's ass, cards, Carlyle, Carthage, Carthew, chlorodyne, Colvin, dinner, education, Embrocation, FH 1831-1923, flageolet, Freeman, Germany, Gladstone, Gurr, Highlands, Historiae Samoae, History for Children, horses, influenza, king, library, Lloyd, luncheon, mail, Maile, Mataafa, Middlesex, money, Montaigne, mosquitos, Motootua, music, Nares, Old English History, Phaedo, politics, President, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, savages, Scotch history, Scott, Scribners, smoke, South Seas, Stevensons, Tales of a Grandfather, The Choice of Books and other Literary Pieces, Vailima, verandah, violin, weeding, work, Wrecker | Leave a comment

“Such is the rough outline of the events”

Posted on June 6, 2021 by mafalda

[As usual, for critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2355.] To the Editor of The Times [Thistle Edition, Vol XXII, 1898, pp. 454-8] Vailima, Upolu, Samoa, October 12, 1891. Sir, I beg leave to lay before your readers a … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Apia, Apia Municipal Council, atrocities, Berlin Treaty, Brandeis, Cedercrants, Chief Justice, consuls, correspondence, cutter, deportation, dynamite, editor, electrical machine, Fiji, funds, Germany, Government, jail, king, King Log and King Stork, Manono, Mataafa, mechanic, natives, newspapers, Offenbach, officials, Presidents, prisoners, public, rescue, residents, Samoa, Samoans, scandal, Senfft von Pilsach, sentence, South Seas, States, taxes, The Times, Tokelaus, Ulfsparre, Upolu, Vailima, war, Wrecker | Leave a comment

“This is a great pleasure to me; the band-mastering, the playing and all”

Posted on April 11, 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, 2335.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 326-31] [Vailima, 24 or 25 June 1891] My dear Colvin, I … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Austin, babe, band-mastering, beauty, Bell of Old Bow, Belle, bladders, blood poisoning, boarding-house, carter, chiefs, clarinet, cold, Colvin, cook, Emma, Faauma, Fanny, fever, flageolet, flute, Germany, health, house, instruments, Java, king, kitchen, Lafaele, laundress, Lloyd, malady, Mataafa, Mrs. Nickelby, music, Paul, piano, pictures, pipes, playing, pleasure, portrait, quinsey, Ratke, revolvers, Robert Louis Stevenson, room, rumours, Samoa, shot-gun, Simele, South Seas, swords, Sydney, temperature, Vailima, war, Watts, weapons natives, whites, women | 1 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

“Is it what the English people understand by the sovereignty of the seas?”

Posted on August 17, 2019 by mafalda

This letter about the First Samoan Civil War was to be published on The Times, 11 March 1889, under the heading ‘Recent German Doings in Samoa’. Cf. for details RLS’s essay A Footnote to History, 1892. [As usual, for correct … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Adler, Apia, Bismarck, Blacklock, Coetlogon, consuls, crisis, Embassy, England, Germany, Godeffroy, harbours, Hawaii, journalist, Klein, Knappe, Malietoa, Mansfield Gallien, Marshalls, Mataafa, Matafangatele, nations, Nipsic, politics, Polynesia, Powers, prisoners, readers, Red Cross, Richmond, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoan War, Samoans, South Seas, sovereignty, Tamasese, times, traveller, US, warships | 2 Comments

We believe in nothing: you don’t, and I don’t

Posted on August 23, 2016 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 5, 1398.] To John Addington Symonds [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 267-269] Bonallie Towers, Bournemouth, 30 [sic!] February … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged anxiety, Bismarck, Bombay, bourgeois, Bournemouth, boy, busy, Calcutta, Charon, Child's Garden of Verses, Cole, college, conscience, Courage, Cox, death, Delhi, desertion, dishonour, doctor, dynamiter, Edinburgh, England, fagged, Fanny, father, French, garrisons, Germany, Gladstone, Gordon, health, home, Huckleberry Finn, Hyères, Indian Mutiny, influenza, Lloyd, Longman, Millais, mischief, More New Arabian Nights, nation, nerves, Nice, old, parable, peace, Piety, Police-Officers, pray, Prince Otto, Robert Louis Stevenson, sceptic, sensibility, Sepoy, shame, Skerryvore, spirit, stocks, success, Symonds, The Great North Road, Thomas Stevenson, Twain, Wellington, wife, winter, work | Leave a comment

“On the whole there are too many amusements going for much work”

Posted on March 1, 2014 by mafalda

This is from his cousin Maude Babington’s house in Suffolk, visited during the summer of 1873. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sir Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Cockfield, England, France, Germany, landscape, Lavenham, law, Ma, Melford, mother, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, Sudbury, Suffolk, trees | 1 Comment

Real Teutons, with no deception, spring, or false bottom

Posted on February 21, 2014 by mafalda

The Rosengasse in Frankfurt am Main, where RLS ‘gets into lodgings’ with his friend, Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, was a centre of prostitution from the Middle Ages to 1938, when the alley was demolished. [As usual, dots between square brackets … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged birds, fire, Frankfurt am Main, German, Germany, lodgins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rosengasse, Sachsenhausen, Seven Dials, Sir W.G. Simpson, street, Teuton | Leave a comment

Mein Herz ist im Hochland, mein Herz ist nicht hier

Posted on February 19, 2014 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sir Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 1, 105]. To his mother [Colvin 1911, pp. 45-49] Hotel Landsberg, [Frankfurt,] Thursday, 1st August 1872. […] Yesterday … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Auld Lang Syne, Cobie, Coburg, Courbet, Eckenheim, Eckenheimer Wirtschaft, Fra Diavolo, Frankfurt am Main, German, Germany, Hotel Landsberg, kloster, Leipzig, Lord Allcash, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, schnapps, theatre, Turkey, whisky | 1 Comment

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“Well, laigh i’ your lug, sir, the clue was found. My style is from the Covenanting writers”

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“The greater world… the world where men still live a man’s life”

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“Such is the rough outline of the events”

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“This is a great pleasure to me; the band-mastering, the playing and all”

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

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“Is it what the English people understand by the sovereignty of the seas?”

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We believe in nothing: you don’t, and I don’t

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“On the whole there are too many amusements going for much work”

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Real Teutons, with no deception, spring, or false bottom

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Mein Herz ist im Hochland, mein Herz ist nicht hier

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