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What good travellers we are, if we had only faith

Posted on October 10, 2014 by

Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928) was an art critic, author, poet and close friend to RLS. They first met in 1870, and in 1896 Gosse will remember that circumstance: “At the tail of this chatty, jesting little crowd of invaders came … Continue reading →

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Read and enjoyed right round upon the other side of the big Football

Posted on September 3, 2014 by

This correspondent, living at the time in Australia, was probably the first to write and seek RLS’s acquaintance from admiration of his work, meaning especially the Cornhill essays of the Virginibus Puerisque series so far as they had yet appeared, … Continue reading →

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‘Finish, finish, make an entire end, make us strong, shapely, viable creatures!’

Posted on August 1, 2014 by

RLS’s examination for the Bar at Edinburgh was approaching. His formal thesis in Latin, on a title of the Padects (‘Pro Dote’) is in the National Library of Scotland. Fontainebleau is the paper called Forest Notes, afterwards printed in the … Continue reading →

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