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My last night at Mentone
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sir Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 1, 256]. To Mrs. Sitwell [Colvin 1912, p. 66-67] [Menton, April, 1874], Monday. My last night … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged bloom, cabman, childishness, course, Darwin Charles, dinner, evening, Fanny Sitwell, farewell, friend, Göttingen, hills, horse, Hotel St. Romain, laugh, Léon Galitzin, lectures, line, Madame Zassetsky, Menton, mist, money, Natural History, Ordered South, Paris, peach-trees, pink, pourboire, Roads, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roman Law, Rudolf von Jhering, rue St. Roch, Summer, world
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We have all been getting photographed
… and we haven’t found those photos… yet! Madame Zassetsky is the Russian princess wintering at Menton with her sister and kids, in a villa near RLS’s hotel. The first reference to RLS’s moustache. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged cloak, French, Madame la Princesse, Madame Zassetsky, Menton, mother, moustache, photograph, photographer, Prince, proofs, Robert Louis Stevenson
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Madame proposes to hire a copyist
Mrs Andrews is the wife of James Bruyn Andrews, former American lawyer, now living in Menton because of ill-health, at Villa d’Adhémar. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sir Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of … Continue reading
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Tagged Auld Lang Syne, copy, father, German, J.T. Surrenne, Jock o’ Hazeldean, Johnnie Cope, letters, Madame Zassetsky, Marot Clément, Menton, mother, Mowbray, Mrs. Andrews, My Boy Tammie, pianoforte, pleasure, post, Robert Louis Stevenson, Russian airs, satisfaction, Scotch airs, Scots wha hae, Songs of Scotland, The Flowers of the Forest, Wandering Willie, whistle, Wood in George Street
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Last night we had a masquerade at the Villa Marina
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sir Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 1, 239, dated Feb. 12]. To Mrs. Sitwell [Colvin 1912, pp. 60-62] [Menton, February 6, 1874,] … Continue reading
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They have both husbands, and they are in Russia
William Murray, Sollicitor in the Supreme Court, is the father of RLS’s friend William Hugh Murray. With reference to the political allusions: this is the date of Mr. Gladstone’s dissolution, followed by his defeat at the polls notwithstanding his declared … Continue reading
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Tagged black tail, blue spectacles, brother, Cap Martin, child, classes, cloak, cold, contadina, dance, death, dose, drive, election, father, Folleté, goody, health, husbands, income tax, J.H.A. Macdonald, letter-writing, life, Madame Zassetsky, Mademoiselle, mamma, masquerade, M’Laren, Monte Carlo, Mrs. Sellar, Murray, Nelitchka Zassetsky, Oxfordish, Pella, poverty, proposal, Puss in Boots, red satin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robinet, Roman stateliness, Romantic guitarism, Russia, Russian ladies, Scotch music, selfishness, sick, society, speech, stupid, sunshine, thoughtlessness, Villa Marina; Nellie, wine
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Her laugh does more good to one’s health than a month at the seaside
The following is in answer to a set of numbered questions from his mother. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sir Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 1, 216]. To his … Continue reading
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It looks like playing at passion
The following are two different impressions of the Mediterranean, dated on two different Mondays, 1874. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sir Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 1, … Continue reading
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