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“Well, laigh i’ your lug, sir, the clue was found. My style is from the Covenanting writers”

Posted on September 19, 2023 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 8, 2666.] To J.M. Barrie [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 264-7] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima, Samoa, December 7th, 1893 … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged Addison, age, Allahakbarries, Auld Licht, Balfour, Barrie, beard, birthday, bricks, Broddie, Chief Justice, Clark, Covenant, Cricket, critics, Cummy, Edinburgh, Germany, gossip, health, Honolulu, illustrations, introduction, Latin, mantuamaker, newspapers, novel, politics, President of the Apia Municipal Council, rhymes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoa, Scots, servant, Shields, Souwegia, Three Powers, Tibby Birse, unconscious, Vailima, Walker, Window in Thrums, Wodrow | 1 Comment

“It is hard to reach the truth in these islands”

Posted on November 7, 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, 2390.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 16-24] [Vailima, Thursday 18] Feb. 1892 My dear Colvin, This has … Continue reading →

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“With the great sliding doors wide open in an undershirt and p’jama trousers”

Posted on January 4, 2021 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 7, 2307.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, 1895, pp. 109-17] [continued] Saturday [21 March 1891] To-day I have had a queer experience. My carter has from the first been using my … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Senza categoria | Tagged American consul, American Consulate, anger, Apia, bed, birds, Bloody Wedding, Bottle Imp, breakfast, carpenters, carter, Claxton, clothes, clouds, Colvin, conch-shell, death, dinner, drafts, England, Field the Sailor, French, funeral, Hamilton, heaven, horses, Kit Nettison, landscape, letters, lightning, malaga, Mary, Matautu, Missionary, money, mosquitos, mountain, murder, Pacific, Pago Pago, Paul, pijama, pink, pipe, proofs, rain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samoan, servant, Sewall, smile, South Seas, temper, Three Star Nettison, trader, translation, Vailima, visitors, waxwork, weather, weeding, work | 2 Comments

If you don’t know that you have a good author, I know that I have a good publisher

Posted on May 18, 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 5, 1304.] To Andrew Chatto [Colvin 1911, 2, 235] Wensleydale, Bournemouth, October 3, 1884. Dear Mr. Chatto, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson | Tagged America, author, £, Bournemouth, Chatto, contract, dealings, doctor, health, master, money, offer, Prince Otto, publisher, rights, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotch story, servant, Wensleydale | Leave a comment

Keep the jelly for the last

Posted on January 31, 2016 by mafalda

The persons mentioned below in the third paragraph are cousins of the writer and playmates of his childhood; two of them, christened Lewis like himself after their Balfour grandfather, had been nicknamed after their birthplaces ‘Delhi’ and ‘Cramond’ to avoid … Continue reading →

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Just got a servant !!!!!!

Posted on August 27, 2015 by mafalda

The expression “a muckle hash of a weedy” (Scots) stay for something like “a large agglomeration of a scrawny person”. In a postscript Fanny described her new servant as ‘a most competent large middle-aged servant’, and an expert cook. [As … 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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The rain rains and the winds do beat upon the cottage of the late Miss McGregor

Posted on April 23, 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 3, 836.] To Edmund Gosse [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 57-58] The Cottage (late the late Miss McGregor’s), … Continue reading →

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“Well, laigh i’ your lug, sir, the clue was found. My style is from the Covenanting writers”

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“It is hard to reach the truth in these islands”

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“With the great sliding doors wide open in an undershirt and p’jama trousers”

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If you don’t know that you have a good author, I know that I have a good publisher

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Keep the jelly for the last

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Just got a servant !!!!!!

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

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The rain rains and the winds do beat upon the cottage of the late Miss McGregor

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