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“Do you wish to illustrate My Grandfather?”

Posted on May 30, 2021 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2354.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 350-1] [Vailima,] October 8th, 1891 My dear Burlingame, All right, you … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Aunt Alan, Burlingame, Cassell, hall, Joseph, London, poetraits, politics, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scott, Scribner's Magazine, South Seas, St Leonard's Terrace, Tales of my Grandfather, Vailima, Wrecker | Leave a comment

“Labuntur anni!”

Posted on May 2, 2021 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2345.] To E.L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, p. 322] Vailima [c. 15 August 1891] My dear Burlingame, […] I … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Burlimgame, grandfather, illustration, Latin, Lighthouse Yacht, Lockhart, MS, proofs, Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Stevenson, Samoa, Scott, Scott's voyage in the Lighthouse Yacht, Scribner's Magazine, Tai-o-hae, Vailima, Wrecker | Leave a comment

“Give me farmering in the tropics for real interest. Life goes in enchantment”

Posted on September 6, 2020 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2269.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 254-6] [Vailima, 4 November 1890] My dear Burlingame, By some … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Apia, Auckland, Baden-Baden, ballads, Broadway, Burlingame, Chalmers, enchantment, essays, farmering, fuafua, gambling, Germans, harbour, hedge, Homburg, kava, lemonade, life, Lloyd, magazines, mail, Missionary, Monaco, Monte Carlo, moonrise, mountains, New Guinea, New York, paths, pineapple, proofs, rain, Robert Louis Stevenson, roof, Samoa, Scribner's Magazine, sea, South Seas, sunrise, Tamate, tuitui, Vailima, verandah, weeding, Wiesbaden, Wrecker | 1 Comment

“Strange things are readers”

Posted on July 24, 2020 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2257.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 243-5] Vailima, Apia, Samoa [? 7 October 1890] […] … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged birds, bookshelves, Burlingame, children, climate, correction, dialogue, Dodd, envy, epilogue, estate, frogs, German, Havers, health, Highland Widow, lamp, Low, Mount Vaea, mountain, pleasure, Pope, prologue, proofs, rain, readers, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saint-Gaudens, Samoa, schooners, Scott, Scribner, Scribner's Magazine, sea, shower, sleigh-bell, South Sea Islander, South Seas, squall, Sullivan, Tai-o-hae, tapa, Vailima, veranda, Wrecker | 2 Comments

“My loneliness has a certain pleasure”

Posted on May 10, 2020 by mafalda

[For critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2235.] To Charles Baxter [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 199-202] Hotel Sebastopol, Noumea [late July 1890] My dear Charles, I have stayed here a week while Lloyd and my wife continue to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged 17 Heriot Row, Baxter, Bell of Old Bow, Bob, books, capital, clothes, Colvin, convicts, death, doctor, Edinburgh, endowment, estate, Fanny, friends, funds, Governor, health, Hotel Sebastopol, Janet Nicoll, Lloyd, loneliness, memories, money, mother, New Caledonia, Noel-Pardon, Noumea, piano, plantation, pleasure, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rutland Square, Samoa, Scribner's Magazine, Simpson, South Seas, Sydney, tailor, thaumatrope, Vailima, Waterloo Place, weather, wife, wine, Wrecker | 2 Comments

“Is it possible for a man in Samoa to be in touch with the great heart of the People?”

Posted on May 1, 2020 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 6, 2233.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 193-9] S.S. Janet Nicoll off Peru Island, Kingsmills … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Apia, beach, Beru Island, Brownell, Burke, Burlingame, Cannibal Islands, Carew, consuls, correspondents, culture, Dr. Hyde, Equator, estate, Fanny, Faxon, Goldwin Smith, health, home, Janet Nicoll, Jekyll & Hyde, Kingsmill Group, Lang, Lloyd, Low, Master of Ballantrae, missionaries, natives, penny papers, people, poems, pros & cons, railway, Random Memories, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saint-Gaudens, Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Scribner, Scribner's Magazine, serialization, ship, Sign of the Ship, South Seas, Stimson, Sydney, travels, typewriter, Vailima, whites, William James, Wrecker | 1 Comment

“There is no postal service; and schooners must take it, how they may and when”

Posted on March 3, 2020 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 6, 2206.] To E.L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 181-5] S.S. Lübeck [between Apia and Sydney] [February] 1890 … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged Apemama, Apia, Burlingame, Crawford, Fanny, flag, French, Gilberts, Hapar, Home of Tembinoka, illustrations, In the South Seas, letters, Lloyd, Lubeck, mail, matted men, Melville, mystery, Pacific Ocean, Pearl Fisher, photographs, poem, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Samoan, San Francisco, schooners, Scribner's Magazine, South Sea Ballds, South Seas, South Seas Yarns, Sydney, Teñkoruti, Tembaitake, Tembinatake, Tembinoka, Tengkorootch, travel, verses, Wrecker | Leave a comment

“We are now about to rise, like whales, from this long dive”

Posted on January 10, 2020 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 6, 2192.] To Edward L. Burlingame [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 169-71] Schooner Equator, at sea, Wednesday, 4th … 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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“From poking in a sick-room all winter to the deck of one’s own ship, is indeed a heavenly change”

Posted on March 15, 2019 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 2084.] To Lady Taylor [Colvin 1912, p. 238] [Manasquan, c. 15 May 1888] My dear Lady Taylor, I have to announce our great news. On June 15th … Continue reading →

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“Do you wish to illustrate My Grandfather?”

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“Labuntur anni!”

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“Give me farmering in the tropics for real interest. Life goes in enchantment”

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“Strange things are readers”

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“My loneliness has a certain pleasure”

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“Is it possible for a man in Samoa to be in touch with the great heart of the People?”

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“There is no postal service; and schooners must take it, how they may and when”

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“We are now about to rise, like whales, from this long dive”

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

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“From poking in a sick-room all winter to the deck of one’s own ship, is indeed a heavenly change”

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