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“The greater world… the world where men still live a man’s life”

Posted on June 20, 2021 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2357.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 353-60] [Vailima] Monday, October 24th [actually 26th, 1891] My dear Carthew, … Continue reading →

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“The outside is painted a sort of peacock blue”

Posted on February 28, 2021 by mafalda

This letter was written by RLS’s mother to her sister Jane at her arrival at Vailima. It gives us a first colourful description of RLS’s home. [For correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2304A] Margaret Isabella Stevenson … Continue reading →

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“You alone will possess that publication without sin”

Posted on December 20, 2018 by mafalda

Minna Caroline Smith (1860-1929) was a contributor to the Boston Daily Advertiser, translator and author of children’s books. In 1900 she told she had written to profess penitence for having bought a pirated copy of Jekyll & Hyde for 25 … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged copyright, Franklin Square, Harpers, library, New York, piracy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saranac Lake, sin, Smith | Leave a comment

“This experience awoke appetite”

Posted on November 22, 2018 by mafalda

Letter to the editor of Scribner’s Magazine. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 2022.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 52-53] [Saranac Lake, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged amusement, books, Burlingame, Cavalier, Convict, engagement, Franklin County Library, French, Gentleman of the Old School, gipsy, invention, James (G.P.R.), language, library, Morley Ernstein, reading, Robber, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saranac Lake, Smuggler, Stepmother | Leave a comment

I should have to mark passages I fear, and certainly note pages on the fly

Posted on July 21, 2016 by mafalda

RLS had begun with great eagerness to prepare material for a volume on the Duke of Wellington for the series of English Worthies published by Longman and edited by his frined Andrew Lang, but beyond preparation the scheme never went. … 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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To the folks that mind o’ me when I’m awa’

Posted on December 16, 2014 by mafalda

The Dook de Karneel (= Duke of Cornhill) and Marky de Stephen is Leslie Stephen, the editor of Cornill Magazine. The “blood and thunder” is RLS’s story, The Pavilion on the Links, just then accepted for the Cornhill. The Deacon … Continue reading →

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“The greater world… the world where men still live a man’s life”

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“The outside is painted a sort of peacock blue”

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“You alone will possess that publication without sin”

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“This experience awoke appetite”

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I should have to mark passages I fear, and certainly note pages on the fly

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Here I am in my native land

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To the folks that mind o’ me when I’m awa’

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