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Did you hear that I had given way to a convex mirror in the dining room?

Posted on November 3, 2016 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1456.] To his parents [Hitherto unpublished prose writings, 1921, p. 168] Bournemouth, July 31, 1885 My dear people, We are having great doings. The drawing-room will soon be lovely, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged bankrupt, Bob, Brebner, cheerful, Coggie, convex mirror, decorative, dining-room, drawing-room, Great Spot, Henley, Irish Cars, Lemon, Louisa, mind, mother, parents, picture, Poole, Pootle, reawakening, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sargent, Skerryvore, St. George, symptoms, tradesman, tricycle | 1 Comment

A beautiful distance, neither blue nor green

Posted on July 8, 2014 by mafalda

Annual Exibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy have been held in the spring of each year since 1827. Works were for sale. The 1875 Exhibition opened on 13 February; it was reviewed by Frederick Wedmore in the Academy of 27 … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Appleton, banks, bathe, blue, church towers, cool, distance, Edinburgh, field, footpaths, green, grey, Grove, landscape, light, picture, reaping, river, Robert Louis Stevenson, Royal Scottish Academy's Exhibition, Ruysdael, Sidney Colvin, sky, temperate, wood | 1 Comment

Away to the ends of the earth, and the furthest star, and the blank regions of nothing

Posted on June 16, 2014 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 2, 330]. To Fanny Sitwell [Colvin 1911, pp. 194-198] [Edinburgh] Sunday [1 November 1874]. Here is my long story: … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged austere, bronchitis, calm, children, city, cockcrow, cold, communicative, country, crying, currants, dawn, deep-breasted, Dejanira, dying, earth, Edinburgh, epic, even, excitement, expresses, Fanny Sitwell, father, fineness, grave, great-kneed, greatcoat, grey, grocer, heart, hearts, Hercules, hilltops, household, houses, impracticable, inartistic, incompleteness, inflexible, Iole, island, ladies, lamp, life, lips, little boy, love, Madonnas, Mammy, mechanic, men, moon, mountain-tops, mythical, Necessity, night, nothing, pagan, pale, parents, passion, passionless, people, perception, picture, police office, populous place, Princes Street, purple, quiet, restless, rigidity, Robert Louis Stevenson, seas, sentimental, serjeant, shop, silence, sky, sleepy, star, stars, street, substantive, supper, terror, thrashed, tired, Tobago Street, Tommy Murphy, town, towns, tragedy, well-draped, white, women, world | Leave a comment

A cousin of these ladies is come to stay with them – Prince Léon Galitzin

Posted on May 2, 2014 by mafalda

If only we could find one of those photographes taken at Menton in February-March 1874… The paper on Roads, RLS’s first paid publication, has been printed under the name L.S. Stoneven in Portfolio, Dec. 1873. Prince Lev Sergeyevich Golitzin (1845-1915) … Continue reading →

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Did you hear that I had given way to a convex mirror in the dining room?

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A beautiful distance, neither blue nor green

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Away to the ends of the earth, and the furthest star, and the blank regions of nothing

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A cousin of these ladies is come to stay with them – Prince Léon Galitzin

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