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“It is in such a world, that I am very glad to fight out my battle, and see some fine sunsets”

Posted on January 5, 2019 by

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 2051.] To Adelaide Boodle [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 65-66] Address, c/o Messrs. Scribner’s Sons, 743 Broadway, … Continue reading →

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Indigestion has its uses

Posted on December 11, 2016 by

RLS’s letter sending the MS of Jekyll & Hyde to Longman does not appear to have survived, but Charles Longman, the publisher, acknowledged it on 31 October 1885. It was recorded by Andrew Lang in Athenaeum of 9 February 1895, … Continue reading →

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The marks of a reader, such as one imagines for oneself in dreams, thoughtful, critical, and kind

Posted on September 25, 2016 by

An anonymous review of the Child’s Garden of Verses, appearing in the Pall Mall Gazette for March 1885, gave RLS so much pleasure that he wrote (in the four words, ‘Now who are you?’) to inquire the name of its … Continue reading →

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Here I am living like a fighting-cock

Posted on October 3, 2014 by

RLS, hard at work upon Providence and the Guitar, New Arabian Nights, and Travels with a Donkey, was occupying for a few days Sidney Colvin’s rooms at Trinity College, Cambridge, in his friend’s absence. The college buildings and gardens, the … Continue reading →

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