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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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Whether on the first of January or the thirty-first of December, faith is a good word to end on

Posted on January 21, 2017 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1508.] To Alison Cunningham [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 305-306] [Skerryvore, Bournemouth] Jan. 1st, 1886 My dear Kinnicum,   I am a very bad dog, but not for … Continue reading →

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I should have to mark passages I fear, and certainly note pages on the fly

Posted on July 21, 2016 by mafalda

RLS had begun with great eagerness to prepare material for a volume on the Duke of Wellington for the series of English Worthies published by Longman and edited by his frined Andrew Lang, but beyond preparation the scheme never went. … Continue reading →

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I am no cultivator of disappointments… but I get some good crops both of remorse and gratitude

Posted on February 21, 2016 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 4, 1211.] To his parents [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 195-196] La Solitude Hyères-les-Palmiers, Var, January 1 [1884] … Continue reading →

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I don’t want no such a parent… his gloom is gallows-worthy

Posted on February 17, 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, 1205.] To his mother [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 193-194] [La Solitude, Hyères] Last Sunday of ’83 [30 December] … Continue reading →

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Forbidden … even to play Patience, that last of civilised amusements

Posted on September 2, 2015 by mafalda

As a young art student, Arthur Trevor Haddon (1864-1941), English portrait painter, had written to RLS after reading his essay on Walt Whitman. He won a scholarship at the Slade School in 1883. The Edinburgh Courant reported RLS’s illness and … Continue reading →

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I’ll see what I can do

Posted on May 13, 2014 by mafalda

Mr. John Morley has asked for a notice by RLS for the Fortnightly Review, which he is editing, of Lord Lytton’s newly published volume, Fables in Song. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sir Sidney Colvin. … Continue reading →

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