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“I would give a leg that this were blotted out, and I could sit down with him as of yore”
[For correct and critical edition of these letters, see Mehew 6, 2090-2093.] W.E. Henley to RLS, with a note by RLS [Enclosed in letter 2093 to Baxter, see below] [Baxter Letters, 1956, pp. 216-7, at http://www.hathitrust.org] Merton Place, Chiswick W., … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
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“What will a man not do with a woman at his elbow…”
As already explained in previous posts, W.E. Henley’s letter of 9 March to RLS accusing Fanny of plagiarism in publishing under her own name a story based on an earlier one by RLS’s cousin, Katharine de Mattos, had precipitated the … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged accusations, Baxter, bitterness, copy, correspondence, cousin, cruelty, De Mattos, dream, Fanny, feelings, friendship, Gosse, hallucination, heart, Henley, Hotel St. Stephen, influence, journey, kindness, Knight Errant, Macbride, money, New York, Nixie, pain, plagiarism, plays, private, protestations, quarrel, reputation, Robert Louis Stevenson, soul, tact, treachery, unkindness, verses, wife
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To me, the medicine bottles on my chimney and the blood on my handkerchief are accidents; they do not colour my view of life… they do not exist in my prospect
[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1484.] To William Archer [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 299-302] Skerryvore, Bournemouth [30 October 1885] Dear Mr. Archer, You will see that I had already had a sight of your … Continue reading
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I shall give my mind at once to the Murder
Edmund Gosse and RLS had proposed to R.W. Gilder, of the Century Magazine, New York, that they should collaborate for him on a series of murder papers, beginning with the Elstree Murder; and he had accepted the proposal on terms … Continue reading
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‘English, The: – a dull people, incapable of comprehending the Scottish tongue
Both Gosse’s article (The Poetic Phase in Modern English Art) and Meredith’s Story (The Tale of Chloe) were published in The New Quarterly Magazine for July 1879. RLS’s book just reviewed was Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes. This letter is contemporary with … Continue reading
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