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“You cannot change ancestral feelings of right and wrong without what is practically soul-murder”

Posted on March 25, 2024 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 8, 2755.] To Adelaide Boodle [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 323-6] Vailima, July 14, 1894 My dear Adelaide, […] … Continue reading →

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“It is to be your edition. Please yourselves”

Posted on February 23, 2024 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2745.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters pp. 358-61; http://www.hathitrust.org%5D [Dictated to Belle] Vailima 18 June 1894 My dear Charles, Your long and interesting letter of May 14th duly come … Continue reading →

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“I started in the dark on foot, with a revolver, and my spurs on my bare feet”

Posted on January 19, 2024 by mafalda

Sidney Colvin had written to RLS on 21 March 1894: ‘Do these things interest you at all: or do any of our white affair? I could remark in passing that for three letters or more you have not uttered a … Continue reading →

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“Bravo for 17. You did well”

Posted on November 30, 2023 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2706.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 347-8] [Vailima, c. 26 February 1894] Dear Charles, The mail coming four days too late gives me no time to do more … Continue reading →

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“By a reaction, when your letter is a little decent, mine is to be naked and unashamed”

Posted on November 25, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2705.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters 1812, pp. 247-8] [Vailima, c. 26 February 1894] Dear Colvin, By … Continue reading →

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“We are in that part of the year which I like the best – the Rainy or Hurricane Season”

Posted on September 11, 2023 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letters, see Mehew 8, 2663.] To Alison Cunningham [Colvin 1911,  4, pp. 261-2] Vailima, December 5, 1893 My dearest Cummy, This goes to you with a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The Happy … Continue reading →

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“I hear people talking, and I feel them acting, and that seems to me to be fiction”

Posted on August 30, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letters, see Mehew 8, 2658.] To Henry James [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 270-1] [Vailima, c. 5 December 1893] My dear Henry James, The mail has come upon me like an armed … Continue reading →

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“As if I had my ancestors’ souls in my charge, and might miscarry with them”

Posted on May 14, 2023 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 8, 2614.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, pp. 225-6] [5] August, 1893 My dear Colvin, Quite impossible … Continue reading →

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“I have a great talent for compliment, accompanied by a hateful, even a diabolic frankness”

Posted on April 25, 2023 by mafalda

[For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2601.] To Arthur Conan Doyle [Colvin 1911, 4, p. 233] Vailima, July 12, 1893 My dear Dr. Conan Doyle, The White Company has not yet turned up; but … Continue reading →

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“I like biography far better than fiction myself: fiction is too free”

Posted on April 8, 2023 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 8, 2585.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 208-12] [Vailima,] June 10th, 1893 My dear Gosse, … Continue reading →

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