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“I warn you, you will have to cast back your eyes a good long way, close upon thirty years”

Posted on June 4, 2017 by mafalda

RLS was always interested by his own retentiveness of memory for childish things, and here asks her old nurse, Cummy, some questions to test the quality of hers. [For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 5, 1661.] … Continue reading →

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You know I was a story-teller ingrain; did not that reassure you?

Posted on December 26, 2014 by mafalda

The volume of studies was eventually called Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882), and the one of the essays Virginibus Puerisque (1881). The essays here mentioned on Benjamin Franklin and William Penn were projects long cherished but in … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Steward

“I warn you, you will have to cast back your eyes a good long way, close upon thirty years”

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You know I was a story-teller ingrain; did not that reassure you?

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