Tag Archives: Sans Souci Hotel

“See with your eyes if anything can be done for him”

Posted on July 21, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2642.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, p. 338] Sans Souci, Waikiki [23 or 24 October 1893] My dear Charles, Sorry that I have not been able to … Continue reading →

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“I am being busted here by party named Hutchinson. Seems good”

Posted on July 17, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2641.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, pp. 234-9] Sans Souci, Waikiki, Honolulu, H.I. Oct. 23rd, 1893. Dear Colvin, My wife came up on the steamer, and we … Continue reading →

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“I am learning to forget I am an invalid”

Posted on July 13, 2023 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2640.] To Arthur Johnstone [Johnstone, Recollections of RLS in the Pacific, 1905, p. 120.] Sans Souci [Hotel], [Waikiki,] October 20 [1893] Sir, Will you please to state – this … Continue reading →

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“I want him to see Punch Bowl, and the railway, and Pearl Lochs, and all the Raree Show”

Posted on July 11, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2636.] To W.F. Reynolds [Johnstone, Recollections of RLS in the Pacific, 1905, p. 276] Sans Souci, Waikiki [October 1893] W.F. Reynolds, Esq. Dear Sir, As I am still … Continue reading →

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“I dare never, from a variety of prudential considerations, approach this interesting instrument myself”

Posted on July 7, 2023 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2635.] To the Editor of the Daily Pacific Commercial Advertiser [Johnstone, Recollections of RLS in the Pacific, 1905, pp. 108-109] Sans Souci, Waikiki, Honolulu, 6 October 1893 To the Editor … Continue reading →

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“I avail myself of the permission to write, if I found mysel’ redd up”

Posted on July 6, 2023 by mafalda

Arthur Johnstone, the editor of the Daily Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu, described in his Recollections of RLS in the Pacific, 1905, RLS’s visit to the office of the Advertiser soon after his arrival. [As usual, for correct and critical edition … Continue reading →

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