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The rain rains and the winds do beat upon the cottage of the late Miss McGregor

Posted on April 23, 2015 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 3, 836.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 57-58] The Cottage (late the late Miss McGregor’s), … Continue reading →

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A long-shore story

Posted on April 15, 2015 by mafalda

W.E. Henley had written praising ‘The Merry Men’ and made some criticisms about the story as drafted in MS. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew … Continue reading →

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The rain rains and the winds do beat upon the cottage of the late Miss McGregor

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A long-shore story

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