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I am driven forward by restlessness
On the advice of the Lord Advocate it has been agreed that RLS will present himself for admission as a student at one of the London Inns of Court and come to town after the middle of October, 1873, to … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged angels, Avignon, belle humeur, bells, birthday, blind poet, boots, bugle, Carpentras, Chateaubriand, Christ, cross, dancing, drums, Fanny Sitwell, fire, France, French, gardens, happy, health, hills, hotel, hot_water, lanterns, laughable, La_Muette_de_Portici, lemons, letters, Mentone, music, musician, noises, odours, olive-yard, Orange, oranges, peak, pleasure, Pont_d'Avignon, Provençality, restlessness, Rhone, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sainte-Beuve, Sens, singing, sky, snow, southerness, station, sun, sunshine, theatre, travelling, velvet, voices, writing
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My own autumnal humour
Sidney Colvin publishes only brief excerpts from a very long (and romantic) journal-letter written by RLS to his friend Fanny Sitwell, one of the letters containing a full and intimate record of his daily moods and doings, which he is … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged Bible, birds, castle, coach and four, coast, concerto, dawn, Edinburgh, Fanny Sitwell, flowering_isle, gardener, gardens, Grand_Age, Granton, Hallam, Hogart, Kinglake, lamps, landscape, Leaves_of_Grass, line_of_beauty, Macaulay, Madame, Michelet, Molière, Morley, noises, nurse, opposition, preachers, Queensferry, reveille, Roads, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saturday_Review, sea, Southey, vanity, W._Whitman, Walter_Simpson, watchers
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