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“… staccato, I think. Then you sail into the musette”

Posted on December 13, 2017 by mafalda

  [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1789.] To Anne Jenkin [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 329-331]  [Skerryvore, Bournemouth, ? 7 April 1887] My dear … Continue reading →

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“Happiness is a question of morality – or of immorality, there is no difference – and conviction”

Posted on April 9, 2017 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, 1571.] To John Addington Symonds [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 322-325] Skerryvore, Bournemouth [Early March 1886] My … Continue reading →

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Grant me the Duke!

Posted on February 24, 2015 by mafalda

Edmund Gosse’s anthology, English Odes, was published by Kegan Paul in 1881. Among the odes suggested him by RLS, he did not include Dryden’s ‘Threnodia Augustalis’, the ode on the death of Charles II. John Addington Symonds, translator, biographer and … Continue reading →

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They had at first a human air / In coats and flannel underwear

Posted on February 7, 2015 by mafalda

RLS, Fanny and the 12 year old Lloyd arrived in Liverpool on the City of Chester on August 17, 1880. Accompanied by RLS’s parents, they reached Edinburgh the next day and stayed at the Palace Hotel before leaving for their … Continue reading →

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It is like a wind blowing to one out of fairyland

Posted on April 2, 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, 187, dated Dec. 7]. To Mrs. Sitwell [Colvin 1912, pp. 41-43] [Menton, December, 1873], Sunday. The first … Continue reading →

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