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“Bating bad memory and self-deception”

Posted on July 13, 2018 by

As already said, RLS was managing all his publishing arrangements himself, and an occasional lapse of memory or attention betrayed him into misunderstandings and conflicting agreements with two different publishers, both his friends, Charles Scribner and Samuel Sidney McClure. He … Continue reading →

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Of course there is love-making in ‘Otto’, and indeed a good deal of it

Posted on October 10, 2015 by

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 4, 1092.] To W.E. Henley [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 128-129] [Chalet la Solitude, Hyères, 30 April 1883] […] My … Continue reading →

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