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“The month it is the drear October by the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir”

Posted on March 11, 2018 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1890.] To Henry James [Colvin 1911, 3, pp- 22-24] [Saranac Lake, 6 October 1887] I know not the day; but the month it is the drear October … Continue reading →

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I have two handwritings (both equally bad in these days)

Posted on October 29, 2016 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1454.] To Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell [Colvin 1912, pp. 203-204] [Skerryvore, Bournemouth, Late July, 1885.] Dear Sir and Madam, This horrible delay must be forgiven me. It … Continue reading →

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In the article of – well, of heads or tails

Posted on April 20, 2016 by mafalda

Early in May 1884 RLS again fell very dangerously ill with hemorrhage of the lungs, and lay for several weeks between life and death. [For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 4, 1276.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin … Continue reading →

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The devil always has an imp or two in every house, and my imps are getting lively

Posted on November 2, 2015 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 4, 1107.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 136-137] La Solitude, Hyères-les-Palmiers, Var, France, May 21, 1883 My … Continue reading →

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If you could see my roses, and my aloes, and my fig-marigolds, and my olives…

Posted on October 29, 2015 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 4, 1105.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 135-136] La Solitude, Hyères-les-Palmiers, Var [May 20, 1883] … Continue reading →

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A phrase of three members is the outside of my syntax

Posted on October 4, 2015 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 4, 1079.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 131-132] Chalet la Solitude, Hyères [? March 1883] … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged business, correspondence, death, Dibbs, fiction, Gilder, Gosse, Hyères, Memoirs of the Chevalier Johnstone, pecuniary, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rover, Silverado Squatters, stories, syntax, Tay, verse | 1 Comment

And now – I find I have only got a pair of walking-shoes and not yet begun to travel

Posted on September 24, 2015 by mafalda

The paper referred to at the beginning of the second paragraph is one on RLS in the Century Magazine, the first seriously critical notice, says Low, which appeared of him in the States. Henry Holt advertised New Arabian Nights as … Continue reading →

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“The month it is the drear October by the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir”

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I have two handwritings (both equally bad in these days)

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In the article of – well, of heads or tails

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The devil always has an imp or two in every house, and my imps are getting lively

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If you could see my roses, and my aloes, and my fig-marigolds, and my olives…

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A phrase of three members is the outside of my syntax

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And now – I find I have only got a pair of walking-shoes and not yet begun to travel

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