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“Whenever you wish to enjoy any cosmic or epochal emotion… write to the Hermit of Samoa”
[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2455.] To Elizabeth Fairchild [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 113-6] [Vailima, Early September 1892] My dear Mrs. Fairchild, Thank you a thousand times for your letter. You are the … Continue reading
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Tagged adventures, Amelia, amusement, atheism, Balfour, belief, Belle, Chinamen, civilisation, conservatives, conspiration, deportation, Dissolution, Europe, experiments, Fairchild, funk, glamour, Government, Hermit of Samoa, human nature, humanity, Ibsen, inexperience, information, joys, Lady Jersey, life, machinery, Mataafa, melody, messengers, New Youth, Ouida, reactionaries, rebels, risks, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roman Empire, Samoa, sermon, sociology, stars, teeth, terror, theory of life, timidity, Vailima, youth
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“On ne saurait être romancier et ne pas aimer les chiens”
[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2410.] To Georges Docquois [G. Docquois, Bêtes et Gens de Lettres, 1895, pp. 297-300] Apia, 26 May 1892 Monsieur, Vous avez pensé à moi, le Kanaque vous … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, algebraists, animals, ants, Apia, Baboo, bourgeois, camels, cats, crocodiles, dogs, Ducquois, elephants, French, goat & cabbages, heaven, hell, horses, humanity, kanaque, languages, memory, novelists, pain, people, reality, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, schoolboys, Schwob, science, scientists, symbols, translation, truth, Vailima, vivisection, women, words
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“There is but one truth, outside science, the truth that comes of an earnest, smiling survey of mankind”
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1751.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1912, pp. 225-227] [Skerryvore, Bournemouth, Early February 1887] My dear Colvin, … Continue reading
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Tagged angel, Calvin, children, China, Christ, Christianity, Colvin, Cotter Morison, creeds, devil, feudalism, French, hate, horror, humanity, Huxley, mankind, Peden, Peru, preachers, Probably Arboreal, procreating, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rutherford, science, sect, seraph, Skerryvore, smiling, St. Thomas, truth, vices
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“As to whether the long-eared British public may take to it, all think it more than doubt”
[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1612.] To his Father [Colvin 1911, 2, p. 333] [Skerryvore, Bournemouth, May 1886] My dear Father, The David problem has today been decided. I am to leave the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Breck, British, Carlisle, Catriona, Colvin, David Balfour, Fanny, Henley, humanity, Jekyll and Hyde, Kidnapped, publich, Robert Louis Stevenson, Skerryvore, Thomas Stevenson
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“Happiness is a question of morality – or of immorality, there is no difference – and conviction”
[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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My heart and all my interest are with the dweller, that ancient of days and day-old infant, man
The paper referred to in this letter is one which William Archer wrote over his own signature (‘RLS: His Style and his Thought’) in the November number of Time, a magazine already extinct at the time of Colvin’s edition of … Continue reading
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Yours, from Charon’s strand
James Walter Ferrier (1850-1883) was one of RLS’s friends from his days at Edinburgh University; he died of alcoholism as a young man. Somerset is possibly a reference to RLS’s cousin, Bob, who figured as the original of some characters … Continue reading
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Here I am living like a fighting-cock
RLS, hard at work upon Providence and the Guitar, New Arabian Nights, and Travels with a Donkey, was occupying for a few days Sidney Colvin’s rooms at Trinity College, Cambridge, in his friend’s absence. The college buildings and gardens, the … Continue reading
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The darkness made me a little fanciful
On a railway journey thorough Wales with his parents. Richmond Seeley is the proprietor and publisher of the Portfolio. RLS’s essay on John Knox will be published in Macmillan’s Magazine, Sept. 1875. ‘The horrid story’ is the ‘horrible story of … Continue reading
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson 