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“If I ever write an account of this voyage, may I place this letter at the beginning?”

Posted on July 3, 2019 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2123.] To John Addington Symonds [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 89-91] [Tautira] November 11th, 1888 One November night, in the village of Tautira, we sat at the high … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged account, art, artist, beauty, bed, Casco, chairs, chief, chorus, circumstances, climate, clouds, colours, dark, Davos, fate, foreign, forest, fortune, friends, frost, hall of assembly, happiness, heaven, ignorance, islands, lamplight, lantern, lawn, lodges, moonlight, natives, night, Ori a Ori, Pacific Ocean, palms, pine-trees, places, pleasure, poetry, properties, race, rattle, reef, Robert Louis Stevenson, sea, shadows, sickrooms, Silver Ship, solitude, songs, stars, strange, style, sun, Symonds, Tahiti, Tautira, travellers, tropic, verse, visitor, voyage, warm, wind, wood | Leave a comment

“The children beat their parents here; it does not make their parents any better”

Posted on May 16, 2019 by mafalda

RLS addressed a part of this letter to William Archer’s son, ‘Tomarcher’, then aged three. [As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2119] To William and Thomas Archer [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 85-6] Taiti, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Archer, artist, behavior, boats, Casco, children, civilisation, crawl, daylight, den, Europe, excitement, games, garden, genius, hide-and-seek, hide-in-the-dark, islands, jink, litterytour, Macduff, natives, paddock, pain, papas, parents, player, pleasure, prayers, Robert Louis Stevenson, runner, school, shift and dodge, ship, shrubbery, South Seas, style, Tahiti, tattoo, Tomarcher, tropics, voyage | Leave a comment

“I could bear to go down myself, but not to have much MS go down with me”

Posted on May 10, 2019 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 6, 2118.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 82-4] Taiti, October 16th, 1888 My dear Colvin, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Auckland, ballad, Blue Peter, Bora-Bora, captain, Casco, climate, Colvin, copy, cruiser, danger, Fakarava, Feast of Famine, foods, German, health, insecurity, Jenkin, Leeward Islands, letters, MS, narrative, new world, passengers, pleasure, poem, publicity, Raiatea, Robert Louis Stevenson, sailors, San Francisco, Sandwiches, scratch, sea, Silver Ship, spirits, strength, Tahiti, temper, The Cruise of the Silver Ship, trouble, typewrite, Uahiva, verse, voyage | Leave a comment

“We cam’ so near gaun heels ower hurdies”

Posted on April 29, 2019 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2111.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, 1956, pp. 236-7, at http://www.hathitrust.org%5D [Envelope marked “Private”] Taiti (as ever was) [? 9 October 1888] But then, my dear Charles, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged American Mairchant Marine, Baxter, beastlinesses, Casco, cruise, curious, Dana, deck, drawbacks, Fakarava, health, Henley, illiness, In the South Seas, isles, journal, Low Archipelago, pacience, Pacific Ocean, photographs, pleasure, private, public, recover, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish, sea, squall, Tahiti, Two Years Before the Mast, weather | Leave a comment

“A cat-boat at our disposal, the sea always audible on the outer beach, the lagoon as smooth as glass”

Posted on March 5, 2019 by mafalda

Having spent the last fortnight of April 1888 at New York, RLS and his stepson Lloyd moved at the beginning of May to Manasquan, a small New Jersey watering-place; his wife having meanwhile gone to San Francisco, where she presently … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged beach, bridges, cat-boat, change, Colvin, health, inn, Lagoon, Manasquan, New Jersey, pleasure, rail, road, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saranac Lake, sea, traffic, Union House, villas, walk | Leave a comment

“It is in such a world, that I am very glad to fight out my battle, and see some fine sunsets”

Posted on January 5, 2019 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 6, 2051.] To Adelaide Boodle [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 65-66] Address, c/o Messrs. Scribner’s Sons, 743 Broadway, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged apology, author, Boodle, Broadway, childishness, David Copperfield, dismalness, duets, faith, Fanny, fight, gamekeeper, Gamekeeper at Home, god, health, Jefferies, jests, Lloyd, man, Micawber, morals, music, New York, nightmare, nonsense, pleasure, Pulvis et Umbra, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saranac Lake, Scribner, Squire, States, sunsets, truth, vision, whistles, wife, world | 1 Comment

“This harsh, grey, glum, doleful climate has done me good”

Posted on November 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, 2009.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 54-55] [Saranac Lake, 6 or 7 February 1888] My dear Colvin, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged artist, Asia Minor, breakfast, climate, cold, Colvin, Fanny, fire, future, glass, Greek Isles, health, holiday, household, influenza, kitchen, larks, Lloyd, Master of Ballantrae, natives, pleasure, proofs, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roch, Saranac Lake, strength, temperature, thermometer, travel, weather, wind, winter | 2 Comments

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“If I ever write an account of this voyage, may I place this letter at the beginning?”

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“The children beat their parents here; it does not make their parents any better”

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“I could bear to go down myself, but not to have much MS go down with me”

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“We cam’ so near gaun heels ower hurdies”

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“A cat-boat at our disposal, the sea always audible on the outer beach, the lagoon as smooth as glass”

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“It is in such a world, that I am very glad to fight out my battle, and see some fine sunsets”

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“This harsh, grey, glum, doleful climate has done me good”

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