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“The night draws on and I must be on ‘the eight seas’ tomorrow”
[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 6, 2161.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 246-7: http://www.hathitrust.org%5D [Honolulu, 25 April 1889] My dear Charles, I forget if I have made my plans clear to you. … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged American, Apia, Baxter, Casco, cave, chamberlains, church, Consul, crew, cruise, Ebb-Tide, eight seas, English, Equator, French, Germans, Gilberts, gin, harbour, Hawaii, Honolulu, hurricane, Kamehameha, Kona, Lloyd, mail, Papeete, Pearlfisher, pirates, proceeds, rivals, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robin Run-the-Hedge, Samoa, San Francisco, schooner, sea, seaboard, seamen, South Seas, Tahiti, treasure, yarn, young
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Pitting my own humour to this old verse … we’ll walk the woods no more
At this time Stevenson was much occupied, as were several young writers his contemporaries, with imitating the artificial forms of early French verse. Some of his attempts have been preserved, like the two contained in this letter. The second is … Continue reading
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