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It will be finished some day, bar the big accident

Posted on October 15, 2016 by mafalda

To a correspondent not personally known to RLS, who had by some means heard of the Great North Road project. RLS’s novel was published posthumous and unfinished (8 chap.) in the Illustrated London News, Christmas Supplement 1895 . [For … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Carrington, Great North Road, Highgate, highwayman, horse-shoes, Jerry Ahershaw, Lethe, Robert Louis Stevenson, romantic, Skerryvore, taste | Leave a comment

And if that is not health, it is the nearest I am like to have

Posted on July 10, 2016 by mafalda

RLS and his wife were still busy on More New Arabian Nights (the romance of the Great North Road having been begun and postponed). The question here touched is, to what publishers should they be offered. [Dots between square brackets … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged aches, adventures, Bournemouth, Cassell, Cawdor, character, comic, Great North Railway, Great North Road, health, Henley, Latin, laughter, Macbeth, picturesque, rehandling, rheumatism, Robert Louis Stevenson, romantic, Scots, sleep, syndicate, tales, tears, work | Leave a comment

Telling the story, not with the one eye of pity, but with the two of pity and mirth

Posted on April 13, 2016 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 4, 1266.] To W.E. Henley [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 218-219] La Solitude, Hyères [Late April 1884] Dear boy, […] … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged As You Like It, beauty, carmosine, character, Coggie, comedy, comic, De Musset, death-bed, Dernière Aldini, earth, epitaph, fancy, Fantasio, fate, Ferrier, French, good, health, heart, Henley, Hyères, illusion, laughter, life, Meredith, mirth, Molière, nature, Old Mortality, Olympian, pity, poetry, representation, Robert Louis Stevenson, romantic, sex, Shakesperare, stage, tempest, terrors, tragedy, Twelth Night, verse prose, wanderings, work | Leave a comment

We have a wonderful fair wood-music round this Solitude of ours

Posted on March 16, 2016 by mafalda

Soon after the date of the following letter, Miss Ferrier (born in Edinburgh in 1844) went out to Hyères and stayed with her friends through the trying weeks which followed. Her brother Walter, one of RLS’s oldest and most intimate … Continue reading →

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Many a long hour we passed in graveyards, the man who has gone and I

Posted on January 24, 2016 by mafalda

Miss Ferrier’s brother, Walter, one of RLS’s oldest and most intimate friends of Edinburgh days, had lately died of alcoholism, at the same age as RLS. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and … Continue reading →

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… like two guests at the same dinner, one of whom takes clear and one white soup

Posted on January 10, 2016 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 4, 1176.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 155-156] [Hyères, November 1883] My dear Gosse, I … Continue reading →

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Art is a virtue; and if I were the man I should be, my art would rise in the proportion of my life

Posted on December 26, 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 4, 1172.] To Will H. Low [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 170-172] La Solitude, Hyères [Postmark 27 October … Continue reading →

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The Journals and Private Correspondence of David, King of Israel

Posted on July 2, 2015 by mafalda

The following flight of fancy refers to supposed errors of judgment on the part of an eminent firm of publishers (Cassell’s), with whom RLS had at this time no connection. Very soon afterwards he entered into pleasant relations with them … Continue reading →

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It is a world full of surprises, a romantic world… I was known there; even I

Posted on May 13, 2015 by mafalda

The address, ‘Printing Office Davos’, was actually printed by LLoyd, RLS’s stepson, on much of the writing paper used at this period. Some of the habitual readers of Young Folks had written objecting to the early instalments of Treasure Island, … 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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It will be finished some day, bar the big accident

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And if that is not health, it is the nearest I am like to have

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Telling the story, not with the one eye of pity, but with the two of pity and mirth

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We have a wonderful fair wood-music round this Solitude of ours

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Many a long hour we passed in graveyards, the man who has gone and I

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… like two guests at the same dinner, one of whom takes clear and one white soup

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Art is a virtue; and if I were the man I should be, my art would rise in the proportion of my life

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The Journals and Private Correspondence of David, King of Israel

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It is a world full of surprises, a romantic world… I was known there; even I

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A long-shore story

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