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“You never smoked, I think, so you can never taste the joys of stopping it”

Posted on April 14, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2588.] To Henry James [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 213-7] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima Plantation, Samoan Islands, June 17th, … Continue reading →

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“Lord, lord! these be long memories, distant thoughts”

Posted on January 29, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, for critical edition of this letter see Mehew 8, 2533.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 319-21: http://www.hathitrust.org%5D [Vailima, c. 30 January 1893] Dear Charles, Three letters from you this month. Well done, thou good and faithful. The … Continue reading →

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“Hawaii ponoi nana i kou moi (Hawaiian God save the King)”

Posted on August 31, 2019 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2143.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 242-3: http://www.hathitrust.org%5D Honolulu, [Postmark 8] March 1889 My dear Charles, At last I have the accounts: the doer has done … Continue reading →

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“I fear the railroad car as abjectly as I do an earwig”

Posted on August 10, 2018 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1972.] To Harriet Monroe [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 36-37] Saranac Lake, New York [December 19, 1887] Dear Miss Monroe, … Continue reading →

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“It is a far finer thing to be in love, or to risk a danger, than to paint the finest picture or write the noblest book”

Posted on May 14, 2017 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1642.] To Harriet Monroe [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 335-338] [Skerryvore, Bournemouth, 30 June 1886] My dear … Continue reading →

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I have another thing coming out

Posted on January 11, 2017 by mafalda

RLS accepted the dedication of Low’s illustrated edition of Keats’s Lamia, and sent him in return the newly published Jekyll and Hyde. For Keats’s Lamia illustrated by Low, see: https://archive.org/stream/lamia___00keat#page/n0/mode/2up [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by … Continue reading →

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The truth is I have no appearance; a certain air of disreputability is the one constant character that my face presents: the rest change like water

Posted on November 12, 2015 by mafalda

During the height of the Provençal summer, 1883, RLS went with his wife to the Baths of Royat in Auvergne (travelling necessarily by way of Clermont-Ferrand, Hôtel de la Poste). His parents joined them at Royat for part of their … Continue reading →

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The mere extent of a man’s travels has in it something consolatory

Posted on February 28, 2015 by mafalda

RLS had made friends with the American writer Charles Warren Stoddard, in the manner and amid the scenes faithfully described in The Wrecker, in the chapter called ‘Faces on the City Front.’ Stoddard (1843-1909) had written on 9 November 1880 … Continue reading →

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We have all been getting photographed

Posted on April 30, 2014 by mafalda

… and we haven’t found those photos… yet! Madame Zassetsky is the Russian princess wintering at Menton with her sister and kids, in a villa near RLS’s hotel. The first reference to RLS’s moustache. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts … Continue reading →

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