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It seems to me even dangerous to send patients to the Riviera, without special hints
Horace Benge Dobell was an English doctor and medical writer, Physician at the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, London (1859-1875), and later consulting physician at the Mont Dore sanitorium for patients with chest diseases at Bournemouth. In his … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tagged air, amenity, bedrooms, Bournemouth, Cannes, climate, danger, Davos, dinners, Dobell, doctors, gentleness, germs, hill, hotels, house, Hyères, meal, misconception, mistral, Monte Carlo, nerves, Nice, objections, oppression, phthisical, Riviera, Robert Louis Stevenson, sea-wind, situation, table d’hôte, testimony, town government, valleys, wet, wind
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Beggars must not be choosers
After spending a few days in one of the more retired hotels of Monte Carlo, RLS and Sidney Colvin go on to Mentone and settle at the Hotel Mirabeau, (no more existing) near the eastern extremity of the town. P.R. … Continue reading
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I am concerned about the plane leaves
The heroine of George Sand, Consuelo (1868), is under an obligation to marry a man she does not love because he has been kind to her grandfather; eventually she is able to marry the young man she does love. The … Continue reading
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