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Apropos of the odd controversy about Shelley’s nose

Posted on February 15, 2017 by mafalda

Sir Percy and Lady Shelley, RLS’s neighbours at Bournemouth, had attached themselves warmly to RLS, and saw in his ways and character a living image of those of the poet, Sir Percy’s father, as they imagined him. Low had asked … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged cheek-bones, controversy, dedication. accipitrine family, Jeaffreson, Lamia, light, Low, nose, photographs, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shelley, Skerryvore | 1 Comment

Take things easy and be as happy as you can

Posted on February 10, 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, 1201.] To his Father [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 191-192] La Solitude, December 20, 1883 My dear Father, I … Continue reading →

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Tales for winter nights

Posted on April 11, 2015 by mafalda

RLS had asked his friends to write a testimonial in support of his candidature for the Edinburgh History Chair. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew … Continue reading →

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The bold unfearing chap / Aims at a professorial cap

Posted on April 4, 2015 by mafalda

Another letter referring to the candidature of RLS for the Edinburgh History Chair. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 3, 814.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin … Continue reading →

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‘Dere’s de author’

Posted on December 13, 2014 by mafalda

The essay on Benjamin Franklin was never written. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 3, 678.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 1, pp. … Continue reading →

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But death is no bad friend

Posted on November 29, 2014 by mafalda

The following is in acknowledgment of Edmund Gosse’s volume called New Poems. The ‘Plymouth Brother’ refers to an anecdote told in Travels With a Donkey, Chapter ‘In the Valley of the Tarn’. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts … Continue reading →

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It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable

Posted on November 22, 2014 by mafalda

The copy of the Monterey paper here mentioned is probably the Monterey Californian of 11 November 1879, containing RLS’s article ‘San Carlos Day’ signed ‘The Monterey Barbarian’, and repulished in Scribner’s Magazine, August 1920. [As usual, dots between square brackets … Continue reading →

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A beautiful distance, neither blue nor green

Posted on July 8, 2014 by mafalda

Annual Exibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy have been held in the spring of each year since 1827. Works were for sale. The 1875 Exhibition opened on 13 February; it was reviewed by Frederick Wedmore in the Academy of 27 … Continue reading →

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Winter seen from the inside of a warm greatcoat

Posted on June 23, 2014 by mafalda

The ‘Buckinghamshire affair’ refers to RLS’s essay ‘An Autumn Effect’, published in the Portfolio, April and May 1875. Maurice de Guérin (1810-1839) was a French poet and mystic who won recognition after his death with the publication of his Journal … Continue reading →

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I look forward confidently; I have faith after all!

Posted on May 18, 2014 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sir Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 2, 276]. To Fanny Sitwell [Colvin 1912, pp. 74-78] [Swanston, June, 1874], Wednesday. […] news reaches me that … Continue reading →

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Apropos of the odd controversy about Shelley’s nose

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Take things easy and be as happy as you can

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Tales for winter nights

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The bold unfearing chap / Aims at a professorial cap

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‘Dere’s de author’

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But death is no bad friend

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It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable

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A beautiful distance, neither blue nor green

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Winter seen from the inside of a warm greatcoat

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I look forward confidently; I have faith after all!

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