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Sursum corda; faint heart never writ romance

Posted on January 15, 2016 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 4, 1178.] To W.E. Henley [Colvin 1912, pp. 182-183] La Solitude, Hyères [? 15 November 1883] My dear excellent, … Continue reading →

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And now – I find I have only got a pair of walking-shoes and not yet begun to travel

Posted on September 24, 2015 by mafalda

The paper referred to at the beginning of the second paragraph is one on RLS in the Century Magazine, the first seriously critical notice, says Low, which appeared of him in the States. Henry Holt advertised New Arabian Nights as … Continue reading →

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It was a logomachy of my making

Posted on April 20, 2015 by mafalda

The Stevensons arrived at Braemar, Aberdeenshire, on August 2nd, 1881. Alexander Hay Japp (1837-1905), Scottish author, journalist and publisher, was known for some time under his pseudonym H.A. Page, and later as a biographer of De Quincey. In 1877 he … Continue reading →

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Here I am in my native land

Posted on March 31, 2015 by mafalda

RLS and Fanny travelled from Paris to London soon after 18 May, 1881, visiting Fanny’s son, Lloyd, who was studying at York. Then they returned to Scotland, moving (on 6 June) to Pitlochry, Perthshire, and staying at first at Fisher’s … Continue reading →

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Up will rise on the other side, sane, pleasurable, human knowledge: a thing of beauty and a joy

Posted on October 18, 2014 by mafalda

‘Bummkopf’ was RLS’s name for the typical pedant (German or other). ‘A wicked and adulterous generation’ quotes Matthew 16:4. Burns is the Cornhill essay, not the rejected Encyclopædia Britannica article. The story mentioned at the end of this letter … Continue reading →

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Merged and mixed up in a quadruple existence

Posted on May 20, 2014 by mafalda

RLS’s cousin and friend, Bob (Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson, 1847-1900), painter and art critic, is recovering at Swanston, staying there with his sisters Katharine and Dora (the ‘two cousins from Portobello’) and another cousin of RLS’s (on mother’s side), Maggie. … Continue reading →

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Sursum corda; faint heart never writ romance

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And now – I find I have only got a pair of walking-shoes and not yet begun to travel

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It was a logomachy of my making

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Here I am in my native land

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Up will rise on the other side, sane, pleasurable, human knowledge: a thing of beauty and a joy

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Merged and mixed up in a quadruple existence

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