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“I wish to die in my boots; no more Land of Counterpane for me”

Posted on January 15, 2022 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2408.] To Sidney Colvin (continued) [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 44-62] [Vailima, 9 May 1892] Meanwhile my business was still untransacted. And … Continue reading →

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“A cat-boat at our disposal, the sea always audible on the outer beach, the lagoon as smooth as glass”

Posted on March 5, 2019 by mafalda

Having spent the last fortnight of April 1888 at New York, RLS and his stepson Lloyd moved at the beginning of May to Manasquan, a small New Jersey watering-place; his wife having meanwhile gone to San Francisco, where she presently … Continue reading →

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“I have fallen head over heels into a new tale, The Master of Ballantrae”

Posted on August 15, 2018 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1974.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 41-43] [Saranac Lake, December 24, 1887] My dear Colvin, … Continue reading →

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“It looks like a mixture of an aztec idol, a lion, an Indian Rajah, and a woman”

Posted on May 20, 2017 by mafalda

RLS’s parents had been thinking of trying a winter at Bournemouth for the sake of being near their son, a plan which was eventually carried out. His health was now fast and painfully breaking. [As usual, dots between square brackets … Continue reading →

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If it is your fate to fall sick at an inn…

Posted on November 6, 2016 by mafalda

During the last week in August 1885, RLS and his wife, stepson and cousin Katharine de Mattos set off to stay in a farmohouse on Dartmoor. The author was taken with a violent hemorrhage and they had to stop at … Continue reading →

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I wish I was well away somewhere else. I feel like flight some days; honour bright

Posted on August 5, 2015 by mafalda

In the heat of conversation RLS was accustomed to invent any number of fictitious personages, generally Scottish, and to give them names and to set them playing their imaginary parts in life, reputable or otherwise. Many of these inventions, of … Continue reading →

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I have survived myself, and somehow live on, a curious changeling, a merry ghost

Posted on July 20, 2014 by mafalda

The old print which RLS is alluding here still remains unidentified. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 2, 388]. To Fanny Sitwell [Colvin, 1912, pp. … Continue reading →

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