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He has my free permission to borrow from me all that he can find worth borrowing

Posted on August 23, 2015 by mafalda

At Marseilles, while waiting to occupy the house which he had leased in the suburbs of that city, RLS learned that his old friend and kind adviser, James Payn, with whom he had been intimate as sub-editor of the Cornhill … Continue reading →

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Yours, from Charon’s strand

Posted on January 21, 2015 by mafalda

James Walter Ferrier (1850-1883) was one of RLS’s friends from his days at Edinburgh University; he died of alcoholism as a young man. Somerset is possibly a reference to RLS’s cousin, Bob, who figured as the original of some characters … Continue reading →

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