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“Without suspense, there can be little pleasure in this world”

Posted on June 9, 2018 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1945.] To Henry James [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 37-39] [Saranac Lake, c. 20 November 1887] My dear Henry James, It may please you to know how our … Continue reading →

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“I had literally forgotten what happiness was, and the full mind”

Posted on March 18, 2018 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1891.] To Bob Stevenson [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 10-12] Saranac Lake, Adirondacks, New York, U.S.A. [Early October 1887] … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Atlantic, £, Baker’s, Baltic, banks, behaviour, Bob Stevenson, Cape Hatteras, cold, fame, fun, Gladstone, glory, happiness, Havre, health, heather, Highlands, joy, landscape, letters, money, mother, Newfoundland, Newport, pleasure, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saranac, schooner, sea, ship, skipper, Southampton, string quartette, Union Jack, voyage, West Indies, yacht | 1 Comment

“I do not write possibly with all the really somewhat sickened gravity I feel”

Posted on January 6, 2018 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, 1798.] To Anne Jenkin [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 375-377] [Skerryvore, Bournemouth, Late April 1887] My dear … Continue reading →

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“Home Rule, if you like”

Posted on December 23, 2017 by mafalda

The following sets forth the pros and cons which were balancing each other in RLS’s mind in regard to his scheme of going to make a stand in his own person against agrarian outrage in Ireland, under the Conservative Government … Continue reading →

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“If Mr Shaw is thirty, he had best be told that he is a romantic, and pursue romance with his eyes open”

Posted on April 15, 2017 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1575.] To William Archer [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 48-50] [Skerryvore, c. 9 March 1886] My dear Archer, What am I to say? I have read your friend’s book with … Continue reading →

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I do not like mankind; but men, and not all of these

Posted on February 3, 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, 1510.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 311-315] Skerryvore, Bournemouth, Jan. 2nd, 1886 My dear … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged art, belief, burgesses, conscience, cross, death, delirium tremens, die, fight, forgiveness, French, friends, frienship, Gilbert, Gosse, happiness, immortality, Jenkin, journey, letters, literature, loss, love, mankind, martyrs, McCarthy, men, money, passions, pleasure, press, primrose path, Prince Otto, professors, prostitutes, public, race, resumption, reviews, reward, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saturday Review, sermon, Skerryvore, soul, spellbound, St. James's Gazette, tea-party, women, work, worm, writing | 1 Comment

I think of giving ’em literature without words; and I believe if you were to try invisible illustration, it would enjoy a considerable vogue

Posted on June 9, 2016 by mafalda

Will Hicock Low was at that time teacher of drawing in the Cooper Institute, NY. [As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1327.] … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: pleasure

“Without suspense, there can be little pleasure in this world”

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“I had literally forgotten what happiness was, and the full mind”

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“I do not write possibly with all the really somewhat sickened gravity I feel”

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“Home Rule, if you like”

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“If Mr Shaw is thirty, he had best be told that he is a romantic, and pursue romance with his eyes open”

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I do not like mankind; but men, and not all of these

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I think of giving ’em literature without words; and I believe if you were to try invisible illustration, it would enjoy a considerable vogue

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