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“Strange things are readers”

Posted on July 24, 2020 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2257.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 243-5] Vailima, Apia, Samoa [? 7 October 1890] […] … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged birds, bookshelves, Burlingame, children, climate, correction, dialogue, Dodd, envy, epilogue, estate, frogs, German, Havers, health, Highland Widow, lamp, Low, Mount Vaea, mountain, pleasure, Pope, prologue, proofs, rain, readers, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saint-Gaudens, Samoa, schooners, Scott, Scribner, Scribner's Magazine, sea, shower, sleigh-bell, South Sea Islander, South Seas, squall, Sullivan, Tai-o-hae, tapa, Vailima, veranda, Wrecker | 2 Comments

“Without suspense, there can be little pleasure in this world”

Posted on June 9, 2018 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1945.] To Henry James [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 37-39] [Saranac Lake, c. 20 November 1887] My dear Henry James, It may please you to know how our … Continue reading →

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We are here not to make, but to tread predestined pathways; we are the foam of a wave

Posted on December 17, 2015 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 4, 1159.] To his father [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 175-177] La Solitude, Hyères, 12th October 1883 My … Continue reading →

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My soul sickens at the look of a quarto. I want a refined octavo

Posted on October 14, 2015 by mafalda

RLS was beginning to send home some of the MS of AChild’s Garden of Verses, the title of which had not yet been settled. The pieces as first numbered are in a different order from that afterwards adopted, but the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged artist, bed, blasphemy, bound, candlestick, cannon, child, Child's Garden of Verses, children, Cummy, dancing, darling, dedication, designs, doll, drawings, fairyland, Foreign Children, Foreign Lands, frontispiece, gilt, green, Heine, Henley, ideas, illustrate, imagination, ingratitude, lamp, leaf, lines, loaf, MS, Muse, navigation, New Songs of Innocence, Nice, Nursery Muses, Nursery Verses, object, octavo, pages, paper, party, Penny Whistle, pictures, poems, poetry, price, procession, publisher, quarto, Rimes of Innocence, Robert Louis Stevenson, sea, ship, spacing, The Jews' Harp, title, Tom, Travels with a Donkey, type, verses, wind, Windy Nights | 4 Comments

Away to the ends of the earth, and the furthest star, and the blank regions of nothing

Posted on June 16, 2014 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 2, 330]. To Fanny Sitwell [Colvin 1911, pp. 194-198] [Edinburgh] Sunday [1 November 1874]. Here is my long story: … Continue reading →

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A little lake of tarnished green deepening into a blood-orange at the margins

Posted on June 7, 2014 by mafalda

In Edinburgh Sacramental fast-days were observed on the Thursday before the last Sunday of April and October; they were discontinued in 1887. The ‘Song of Deborah and Barak’ is from the Bible, Judges 5. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged afternoon, anxious, archers, asses, autumn, black, blood-orange, change, chimney, church, clergyman, cloud, cold, colour, damned, dark, draw-wells, Edinburgh, Egyptian buildings, Fanny Sitwell, Fast, females, fighting-cocks, friend, German, green, grumbling, heat, Her Majesty, hermit, hills, History, Holy Sacrament, husbands, John Knox, lamp, life, Mentone, mother, Mound, newspapers, night, painting, pleasure, poem, princes, proud, red, rheumatism, riotous, river Kishon, Robert Louis Stevenson, roof-line, scalp, Scotland, scroll, secular, Sehnsucht, sheep, shoulders, Sisera, Song of Deborah and Barak, space, Sphinx, stars, statues, sun, sunset, sunshin, temper, walk, weary, wind, windows, women, work, wrinkles | Leave a comment

He has written the most delightful letters in the world

Posted on March 5, 2014 by mafalda

Under Fanny Sitwell’s influence RLS begins to believe hopefully and manfully in his own powers and future. It has been agreed that while still reading for the bar, as his parents desire, he shall try to get ready for publication … Continue reading →

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“Strange things are readers”

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“Without suspense, there can be little pleasure in this world”

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We are here not to make, but to tread predestined pathways; we are the foam of a wave

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My soul sickens at the look of a quarto. I want a refined octavo

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Away to the ends of the earth, and the furthest star, and the blank regions of nothing

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He has written the most delightful letters in the world

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