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“I started in the dark on foot, with a revolver, and my spurs on my bare feet”

Posted on January 19, 2024 by mafalda

Sidney Colvin had written to RLS on 21 March 1894: ‘Do these things interest you at all: or do any of our white affair? I could remark in passing that for three letters or more you have not uttered a … Continue reading →

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I have tales enough to keep you going till five in the morning

Posted on November 20, 2014 by mafalda

The Athæneum of 27 September 1879 announced that RLS intended to publish a volume containing his essays from the Cornhill and London. The book finally would be published as Virginibus Puerisque by Kegan Paul in 1881. Henley was reviewing (The … Continue reading →

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