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“We were a large party, with nothing to do”

Posted on April 29, 2023 by mafalda

This letter refers back to this previous letter: https://lettersofrobertlouisstevenson.wordpress.com/2022/07/24/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 8, 2607.] To Henry Rider Haggard [H.R. Haggard, The Days of My Life, I, pp. 239-40] Tivoli Hotel, Apia … Continue reading →

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“I set off barefoot, with my trousers over my knees, and a macintosh”

Posted on July 9, 2022 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin; for full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2452.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 100-113, continued] [Vailima] Tuesday [30 August 1892]. The wild round of … Continue reading →

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“The world is too much with us”

Posted on July 3, 2022 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin; for full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2452.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 100-113, continued] [Monday 29 August 1892] Then we came home; Belle, … Continue reading →

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“I am Samoan enough to have been moved”

Posted on June 29, 2022 by mafalda

[Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 100-113; Mehew 7, 2452] This letter tells without preface the story of the expedition planned in the preceding, see https://lettersofrobertlouisstevenson.wordpress.com/2022/05/22/august-14-1745/. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin; for full, correct and critical … Continue reading →

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“August 14, 1745”

Posted on May 22, 2022 by mafalda

In the month of August 1892, RLS received a visit paid to Apia by Margaret Elizabeth Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey (1849-1945), who came over from Sydney with her brother Captain Rupert Leigh (1856-1919) and her young daughter Lady Margaret … Continue reading →

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