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“This is the main fountain of our present discontents”

Posted on February 10, 2024 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2737.] To the Editor of The Times [Edinburgh Edition v. 25, pp. 303-6] Vailima, Samoa, May 22, 1894 Sir, I told you in my last that the Consuls had … Continue reading →

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“I do not think I can be accused of idleness. This is my season”

Posted on August 1, 2021 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2368.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 365-72] [Vailima] Nov. 25th, 1891 My dear Colvin, My dear Colvin, I wonder … Continue reading →

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“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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“You will know more about the South Seas after you have read my little tale than if you had read a library”

Posted on May 23, 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, 2351.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp.342-8] [Vailima], Sept. 28, 1891 My dear Colvin, Since I last … Continue reading →

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“What a tongue it would be to write, if one only knew it – and there were only readers!”

Posted on November 20, 2020 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, 2295.] This is the first appearance in RLS’s letters of the Swedish Chief Justice of Samoa, Conrad … Continue reading →

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