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“The spirit is unwilling and the flesh proud, and I cannot go it more”

Posted on June 17, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2626.] To George Meredith [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 241-4] Sept. 5th, 1893, Vailima Plantation, Upolu, Samoa My dear … Continue reading →

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“I would give a leg that this were blotted out, and I could sit down with him as of yore”

Posted on March 18, 2019 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of these letters, see Mehew 6, 2090-2093.] W.E. Henley to RLS, with a note by RLS [Enclosed in letter 2093 to Baxter, see below] [Baxter Letters, 1956, pp. 216-7, at http://www.hathitrust.org] Merton Place, Chiswick W., … Continue reading →

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“Je me croyais trop vieux – au moins trop quarante-ans – pour faire de nouveaux amis”

Posted on November 25, 2017 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1769.] To Auguste Rodin [Colvin 1912, p. 225] Skerryvore, Bournemouth, February, 1887 Mon cher ami, Je vous néglige, et cependant ce n’est véritablement pas de ma faute. J’ai fait … Continue reading →

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“Ce n’est pas moi qui tiens la plume – c’est l’autre, le bête”

Posted on September 30, 2017 by mafalda

Written after a visit to Colvin in London, in October 1886, which had been cut short by fogs. Auguste Rodin had sent to RLS a plaster cast of ‘Eternel printemps’, to thank him for his letter defending him against the … Continue reading →

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“The public are weary of statues that say nothing”

Posted on August 26, 2017 by mafalda

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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