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“Get out your big atlas”
[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2109.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 78-80] Fakarava, Low Archipelago, September 21st, 1888 My dear Colvin, Only … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged Anaho, body, Bondelais straits, brigantine, Casco, cold, Colvin, cruise, Dangerous Archipelago, diary, dress, Fakarava, health, Henley, Hiva-Oa, horse, house, James, Low Archipelago, mangoes, Marquesas Islands, night, Nukahiva, Old Man Virulent, Papeete, places, races, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rona-Poa, San Francisco, sea, shells, sickness, South Seas, Taakauku, Tai-o-hae, Taiti, Ua-pu, verandahs, voyage
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The mere extent of a man’s travels has in it something consolatory
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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