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“Well, the war has at last begun”
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2595.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 217-30] [Vailima,] Saturday, 24th (?) June [1893] My … Continue reading
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Tagged '94, aboriginal, Ahrens, ammunition, Apia, Balfour, ball, Belle, Bickford, Bishop, blackened faces, brandy, breakfast, bugle, bush, Ceylon, Chief Justice, chiefs, children, Chinaman, Christmas, Clarke, Colvin, council-house, Cusack-Smith, dinner, doctors, drums, Faamuiná, family, Fanny, flag of truce, ford, foreigners, Frank, French, Gase-gase, Germans, girls, Grevsmühl, Haggard, Hawaii, headache, heads, health, HMS Katoomba, HMS Orlando, horses, hospital, hotel, international, kava, king, Lady Jersey, Laupepa, lava-lava, Letonu, Leulumoega, Lloyd, luncheon, Mafaafa, malae, Malie, Manono, Matafele, Miss Large, Mission House, mother, Mulinuu, ocean, orator, orderlies, peep-show, Pelepa, Penny Whistle, picket, pigs, plantation, Public Hall Committee, quinine, rain, rainy season, Rémy, riding, river, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoan, San Francisco, Savaii, Scots, sea-sickness, Secretary of State, selui, Sina, smoking, Sosimo, starlight, States, tales, Tanugamanono, tatoos, Taupou, teetotaller, temperance, tennis, threats, Ulu, Vaiala, Vailima, Vaimauga, Vaimusu, Vaiusu, war, warships, weapons, weather, whites, Winchesters, wooden pillows, wounded
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“Wherever we are it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else”
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin; for full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2447.] To Adelaide Boodle (continued) [Colvin 1912, pp. 287-91] [Vailima Plantation, Samoan Islands, August 14th, 1892] Here … Continue reading
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Tagged Adelaide Road, Austin, beach, birds, Boodle, bridge, cab, cart-horses, cellar, Charing Cross, childhood, children, Chinese, commissions, dandy, dictation, Edinburgh, eels, Europe, Fanny, Fanny's garden, fish, gamekeeper, health, kilts, King of France, King's palace, Lions, little girls, London, memories, mob, nutmegs, oaks, oranges, parrots, prawns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoans, Savaii, scrivener's cramp, streams, Surrey gipsy, sward, Tapu a fafine, trees, Upolu, Vailima, walk, women, woods, work-boys
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“‘Mr. Stevenson, your turtle is dead'”
[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2415.] To Sidney Colvin (continued) [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 63-83] [Vailima, Sunday, 29th May 1892] On Saturday, 28th, I was awakened about … Continue reading
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Tagged Across the Plains, Apia, Arrick, Belle, Carr, Catriona, Ceylon, Chief Justice, Clarke, Colvin, consulship, correspondence, critics, curaçoa, David Balfour, deads, deportation, dictation, divinity, doctor, Downing Street, Elena, Europe, Faauma, family, feast, Footnote to History, Gibson, guns, Haggard, Hamplet, Highlands, horses, income, kava, ladies, Lafaele, Latin, lèse-majesty, Lloyd, madman, man-of-war, manuscript, medicine, Metu, Miss Grant, Mitaiele, moon, Moors, mother, natives, Old Man Virulent, Paatalise, punch, rain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoan, Savaii, Savea, Simelé, songs, Steward, Tauilo, Taylor, thunders, Tomas, turtle, Upolu, Vailima, visitors, Wallis, Whitmee
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“I could not resist trying to reproduce this in words”
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2408.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 44-62] [Vailima] May 1st, 1892 My dear Colvin, As I … Continue reading
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Tagged Alps, Apia, arrowroot, Baboo, Belle, Bible, birds, boat, clouds, Colvin, dance, Dibdin, dictionary, Donald, faipule, Fanny, French, horses, hotel, Hunt, interpreter, Jack, Kalmuck, kava, Lagoon, landscape, Laupepa, letter, lunch, Malie, Mataafa, misi mea, moon, Musu, Policeman, politics, President, rain, riding, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoan, Savaii, ship, skyscape, sunset, Talolo, tapa, Vailima, visit, whaleboat, Whitmee, Willis
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“You will know more about the South Seas after you have read my little tale than if you had read a library”
[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2351.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp.342-8] [Vailima], Sept. 28, 1891 My dear Colvin, Since I last … Continue reading
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Tagged adoption, Alan Breck, Americans, Austin, Beach de Mar, Beach of Falesá, bedtime, Belle, breakfast, bushmen, chiefs, chimes, Chinaman's, Circus, civilisation, Colvin, committee, consuls, counsels, Cusack, dialects, dinner, doctor, Doyen's, Dunnet, dynamite, Europe, Faatulia, Fanny, Fanua, fiction, Foss, Government, Gurr, highland, honour, horse, Iiga, interpreter, Kidnapped, kilt, king, Kipling, Lloyd, Matafele, Moors, Mulinuu, newspaper, officers, opera, plot, politics, President, public, Robert Louis Stevenson, Royat, Samoa, Samoan, Savaii, Senfft von Pilsach, Seumanu, signing, Simelé, soda, South Seas, style, tales, Tanugamanono, tattoo, theft, travel, Vailima, Verrey's, whisky, whites, Wiltshire
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“If Reid had been still living, I would have written to tell him that, for me, it had come true”
During the absence of the Stevensons at Sydney some eight acres of the Vailima property had been cleared of jungle, a cottage roughly built on the clearing, and something done towards making the track up the hill from Apia into … Continue reading
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