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“This is the main fountain of our present discontents”

Posted on February 10, 2024 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2737.] To the Editor of The Times [Edinburgh Edition v. 25, pp. 303-6] Vailima, Samoa, May 22, 1894 Sir, I told you in my last that the Consuls had … Continue reading →

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“By a reaction, when your letter is a little decent, mine is to be naked and unashamed”

Posted on November 25, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2705.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters 1812, pp. 247-8] [Vailima, c. 26 February 1894] Dear Colvin, By … Continue reading →

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“He asked me to accompany him as if I were his nurse”

Posted on November 2, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2697.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters pp. 245-6] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima Jan. 29th, 1894. My dear Colvin, … Continue reading →

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“Vailima is beautiful and my home and tomb that is to be; though it’s a wrench not to be planted in Scotland”

Posted on June 3, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2624.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, pp. 227-33] [Vailima,] 23rd August [1893] My dear Colvin, Your pleasing letter, … Continue reading →

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“As if I had my ancestors’ souls in my charge, and might miscarry with them”

Posted on May 14, 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, 2614.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, pp. 225-6] [5] August, 1893 My dear Colvin, Quite impossible … Continue reading →

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“No rest but the grave for Sir Walter!”

Posted on May 7, 2023 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2610.] To Charles Baxter [Baxter Letters, pp. 334-6] [Vailima, ? 18 July 1893] My dear Charles, I return herewith Arnot (which unfortunately I already possessed) and Balfour’s Letters, to … Continue reading →

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“I have a great talent for compliment, accompanied by a hateful, even a diabolic frankness”

Posted on April 25, 2023 by mafalda

[For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2601.] To Arthur Conan Doyle [Colvin 1911, 4, p. 233] Vailima, July 12, 1893 My dear Dr. Conan Doyle, The White Company has not yet turned up; but … Continue reading →

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“Well, the war has at last begun”

Posted on April 21, 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, 2595.] To Sidney Colvin [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 217-30] [Vailima,] Saturday, 24th (?) June [1893] My … Continue reading →

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“The ever-to-be-execrated ‘Ebb Tide’, or Stevenson’s Blooming Error”

Posted on March 29, 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, 2577.] To Sidney Colvin [Vailima Letters, 1912, pp. 205-12] […] [Vailima] 29th May [1893] My dear Colvin, … Continue reading →

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“I have an idea that they may perhaps help in time to make up a book on the South Seas for children”

Posted on July 17, 2022 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letter see Mehew 7, 2453.] To Adelaide Boodle and ‘The Children in the Cellar’ [Colvin 1912, pp. 291-7] [Dictated to Belle] Vailima Plantation, Samoan Islands September 4th,1892 Dear Children in the Cellar, … Continue reading →

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“This is the main fountain of our present discontents”

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“By a reaction, when your letter is a little decent, mine is to be naked and unashamed”

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“He asked me to accompany him as if I were his nurse”

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“Vailima is beautiful and my home and tomb that is to be; though it’s a wrench not to be planted in Scotland”

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“As if I had my ancestors’ souls in my charge, and might miscarry with them”

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“No rest but the grave for Sir Walter!”

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“I have a great talent for compliment, accompanied by a hateful, even a diabolic frankness”

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“Well, the war has at last begun”

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“The ever-to-be-execrated ‘Ebb Tide’, or Stevenson’s Blooming Error”

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“I have an idea that they may perhaps help in time to make up a book on the South Seas for children”

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