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“Whenever you wish to enjoy any cosmic or epochal emotion… write to the Hermit of Samoa”

Posted on July 24, 2022 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2455.] To Elizabeth Fairchild [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 113-6] [Vailima, Early September 1892] My dear Mrs. Fairchild, Thank you a thousand times for your letter. You are the … Continue reading →

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“At the lip of a plateau, I suppose the top of Vaea mountain”

Posted on September 5, 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, 2378.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 3, pp. 378-92] [Vailima] Tuesday [15] Dec. 1891 Sir, I have the … Continue reading →

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Art is a mill whose thirlage, in different ages, widens and contracts

Posted on November 16, 2015 by mafalda

The first part of the following refers to contributions of RLS to the Magazine of Art under Henley’s editorship. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew … Continue reading →

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I kept up as long as I could in an imitation of a street singer

Posted on May 27, 2015 by mafalda

RLS left Davos on December 18th, 1881, and went after Fanny to Berne, where she had consulted a doctor for her own illness. The next is after going down to meet his wife and stepson, when the former had left … Continue reading →

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The whole necessary morality is kindness

Posted on March 18, 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, 766.] To his mother [Colvin 1911, 2, pp. 24-26] [Davos], December 26, 1880. Christmas Sermon My … Continue reading →

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The trunk is the fun of it

Posted on August 31, 2014 by mafalda

The three “Rs” are, of course, reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic. RLS’s essay An Apology for Idlers was published in Cornhill Magazine for July 1877 and reprinted in Virginibus Puerisque, 1881. François Villon, Student, Poet and Housebreaker was in the same … Continue reading →

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Away to the ends of the earth, and the furthest star, and the blank regions of nothing

Posted on June 16, 2014 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 2, 330].  To Fanny Sitwell [Colvin 1911, pp. 194-198] [Edinburgh] Sunday [1 November 1874]. Here is my long story: … Continue reading →

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