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“There is always something touching in a mite’s first launch”

Posted on September 3, 2022 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 7, 2463.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 124-8] [Vailima,] Thursday, 15 September [1892] My dear … Continue reading →

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“Barquentin R.L.S., nine hundred and odd days out from the port of Bournemouth”

Posted on February 19, 2020 by mafalda

RLS left Apia on board the German mail steamer Lübeck on 4 February and reached Sydney on 13 February. You may read about this ship on a Melbourne newspaper, 30 August 1886, here: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11570935 [As usual, for correct and critical … Continue reading →

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And if that is not health, it is the nearest I am like to have

Posted on July 10, 2016 by mafalda

RLS and his wife were still busy on More New Arabian Nights (the romance of the Great North Road having been begun and postponed). The question here touched is, to what publishers should they be offered. [Dots between square brackets … Continue reading →

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It looks like a kind of lamplit vicious fairyland behind me

Posted on May 24, 2015 by mafalda

Thomson and Johnson were joke characters created by RLS and Baxter when they they were students at the university of Edinburgh. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, … Continue reading →

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Children are certainly too good to be true

Posted on April 12, 2014 by mafalda

“Bonjour Philippine!” is the French expression used when someone eats twin fruits, or when two children accidentally pronounce the same sentence at the same time: the one who speaks first will gain next morning a little present from the other. … Continue reading →

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