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I am not sure that my incapacity to work is wholly due to illness

Posted on May 30, 2016 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1322.] To W.E. Henley [Colvin 1912, p. 197] Bonallie Towers, Bournemouth, November 11, 1884. Dear boy, I have … Continue reading →

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You have no idea what it costs me to wring out my work now

Posted on June 5, 2015 by mafalda

In the early months of the year 1882 RLS was kept indoors at Davos by a “knee tied up”, with a “slight displacement”, and “chronic inflammation”. His essay ‘A Gossip on Romance’ was published in the first number of Longman’s … Continue reading →

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