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“My horror of the horrible is about my weakest point”
RLS’s account of his visit is to the leper colony on Molokai island, Hawaii. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2174.] To … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged adventure, alohas, Anaho, boat, camera, Cameron, chat, cheer up, cowardice, Cricket, dawn, disgust, dispensary, doctor, Fanny Stevenson, fatigue, fear, flageolet, German, Gilfillan, gloves, god, guest-house, happiness, Honolulu, horror, horses, Kalaupapa, Kalawao, Kentucky, landing, landscapes, lepers, Molokai, mountain, night, pali, patients, rain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish, sea, ship, sisters, sleep, South Seas, sunset, superintendent, Swift, voyage, wind
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“I chose these isles as having the most beastly population, and they are far better, and far more civilised than we”
On 20 July 1888, after 22 days at sea and 3000 miles, the yacht Casco dropped anchor in Anaho Bay in Nuka Hiva, the largest of the Marquesas Islands. All RLS’s literary energies were devoted to his journal, The Cruise … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged Anaho Bay, cannibals, Casco, chief, civilisation, climate, Colvin, correspondence, France, Gentlemen, god, harbour, India, Ko-o-amua, Marquesas, nations, natives, Nouka Hiva, Robert Louis Stevenson, strangeness, trouble
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“It is in such a world, that I am very glad to fight out my battle, and see some fine sunsets”
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 2051.] To Adelaide Boodle [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 65-66] Address, c/o Messrs. Scribner’s Sons, 743 Broadway, … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged apology, author, Boodle, Broadway, childishness, David Copperfield, dismalness, duets, faith, Fanny, fight, gamekeeper, Gamekeeper at Home, god, health, Jefferies, jests, Lloyd, man, Micawber, morals, music, New York, nightmare, nonsense, pleasure, Pulvis et Umbra, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saranac Lake, Scribner, Squire, States, sunsets, truth, vision, whistles, wife, world
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Whether on the first of January or the thirty-first of December, faith is a good word to end on
[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1508.] To Alison Cunningham [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 305-306] [Skerryvore, Bournemouth] Jan. 1st, 1886 My dear Kinnicum, I am a very bad dog, but not for … Continue reading
Yours is the cruel part to survive; you must try and not grudge to him his better fortune, to go first
Professor Fleeming Jenkin, who in RLS’s early student days at Edinburgh had been both the warmest and the wisest of his elder friends, died unespectedly on 12 June 1885 after a minor operation. Austin was Mr. and Mrs. Jenkin’s eldest … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged Academy, admire, bereavements, boy, cherish, condolence, confidant, consolation, feebleness, fortune, friend, god, goodness, heart, Jenkin, loss, love, notice, rejoice, relations, religion, remain, ripe, Robert Louis Stevenson, sad, Skerryvore, sore, spare, support, survive, warm, wife
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Dear reader, I deceive you with husks, the real works and all the pleasure are still mine and incommunicable
[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 4, 1232.] To William Ernest Henley [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 145-147] La Solitude, Hyères [c. 13 March 1884] Dear … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged admiration, aphorism, art, author, band, beauty, blue, body, Brashiana, bulk, Bulk Delights Publishers, calm, critical, death, deceive, dedication, dictionary, discontented, excellence, flesh, fortune, god, green, health, Henley, hornpipes, husks, Hyères, incommunicable, larks, Latin, logic, love, mend, merits, moralist, music, oceans, palace, park, Penny Whistles, pleasure, practiser, produce, profession, proof, putrefaction, reader, reeds, rivals, river, Robert Louis Stevenson, self, sight, sing, sky-scattering, sleep, sobriety, squall, sunrise, tiddy-iddity, vanity, venture, waken, weather, widowed, wife
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I have been to sea, but I never crossed the threshold of a court; and the courts shall be the way I want ’em
By this time Treasure Island was out in book form, and the following is in reply to some reflections on its seamanship which had been conveyed to RLS through Henley. James Runciman (1852-91) was a journalist and school teacher, sub-editor … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient mariner, aspiration, Buccaneers, coherent, collection, Court, dim, etiquette, flowers, god, Henley, horn spoon, Hyères, jimmy, lively, Longman, momentous, mortal, myself, New Arabian Nights, ortolans, picturesque, please, pleasure, praise, Prince Otto, pudding, realism, review, Robert Louis Stevenson, Runciman, sail, sea, seamanship, silent, Skelt, smile, sport, tongues, warrant, wooden
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