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“Our civilisation is a hollow fraud, all the fun of life is lost by it”
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2249.] To Elizabeth Fairchild [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 214-6] Union Club, Sydney [c. 1 September 1890] My … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged Bohemian Crank, civilization, cruise, Damoa, death, Dr. Hyde, Du Camp, Fairchild, Father Damien, Flaubert, fraud, fun, happiness, harshness, health, Janet Nicoll, life, Navigator Islands, New Zealand, parents, Pisgah, populatity, public, Robert Louis Stevenson, Seed, South Seas, Sydney, Union Club, Vailima
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“The exile threatens to be eternal”
[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2121] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 237-8, at http://www.hathitrust.org%5D Tautira (The Garden of the World), otherwise called Hans-Christian-Andersen-ville [8 or 9 November 1888] My dear Charles, … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged Aunt Alan, Baxter, Boodle, death, doer, exile, family, finances, flageolet, Francisco, funds, Garden of the World, Hans-Christian-Andersen-ville, Henley, Honolulu, money, mother, music, offering, Ori a Ori, Pairai, piano, pipe, public, richness, Robert Louis Stevenson, sub-chief, Tautira, Teriitera
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“We cam’ so near gaun heels ower hurdies”
[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
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
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“This, dear James, is a valedictory”
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 2098.] To Henry James [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 70-7] Manasquan (ahem!), New Jersey [28 May 1888] … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Author of Beltraffio, Casco, English, Galapagos, Georgina's Reasons, Golden Gates, green-sickness, Guayaquil, Honolulu, ills, James, life, London Life, Low, mail, Manasquan, maturity, mind, Pacific, Providence, public, Robert Louis Stevenson, San Francisco, schooner, Scribner's, Tahiti, tip-top, Two Countries, valedictory, weather, youth
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“A man who talks, not one who sings”
[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1950.] To John Addington Symonds [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 28-31] Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mountains, New York, U.S.A., November … Continue reading
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“I like myself better in the woods”
[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 1899.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 14-16] [Saranac Lake, Oct. 8th 1887] My dear Gosse, have just read your article twice, with cheers of … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged Adirondacks, Americans, appreciation, Baker’s, book-wreck, Busby, candour, captain, Davos Press, dedication, doctors, Gosse, heather, highland, hills, Hugo, Latin, laughter, Leech, Longman's, peat, post, public, reproof, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saranac Lake, snow, Swinburne, telegram, Tyndall, Underwoods, verses, water, winds, woods
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“I shall have it on my tomb ― ‘He ran a butler'”
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1830.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 332-333] [Skerryvore, Bournemouth, ? 3 June 1887] My … Continue reading
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Tagged ballad, Butler, cold, Colvin, epitaph, Fanny, friendness, garden, health, poem, press, public, Robert Louis Stevenson, Skerryvore, Songs of Travel, style, table, To ―, Tomnoddy, Underwoods, verses
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“Home Rule, if you like”
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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Tagged brave, climate, comforts, crime, Curtin, danger, death, decency, devil, Dickens, duty, England, excitement, Fanny, farm, father, fear, females, French, friends, garden, gas, glory, Good Words, Gordon, Government, habits, health, Home Rule, Howitt, imitation, Ireland, Jenkin, knight, life insurance, Macduff, Martin Chuzzlewit, Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, murder, night, parents, pleasure, public, reward, right, risk, Robert Louis Stevenson, Schumann, Skerryvore, society, States, Thomas Stevenson, watchfulness, wife, work, writers, wrong
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“The public are weary of statues that say nothing”
The letter was published in The Times of 6 September 1886. It is a reply to an attack on Auguste Rodin. The painter Edward Armitage had contributed several letters to that newspaper, writing that he believed the rejection of Rodin’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Armitage, art, Dante, Editor ot The Times, erotism, fortitude, foulness, France, genius, Gladstone, gratification, ideal, imagination, noble, Paolo and Francesca, Paris, Printemps qui passe, public, realism, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rodin, Royal Academy, sculpture, senses, sentiment, Skerryvore, statues, talent, The Times, thought, Zola
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