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We have had many other wild misadventures

Posted on September 7, 2015 by mafalda

RLS’s wife extremely vivid and charteristic account of the weird misadventures that befell the pair during their retreat from St. Marcel, Marseille, in search of a healthier home. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, … Continue reading →

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I take one of my meals in a little French restaurant; for the other two, I sponge

Posted on November 4, 2014 by mafalda

RLS had come to Monterey to wait for his future wife’s divorce to become final. The Story of a Lie was published on the New Quarterly Review, in October 1879. Dr. J.P.E. Heintz lodged at the ‘French House’, a rough … Continue reading →

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I have survived myself, and somehow live on, a curious changeling, a merry ghost

Posted on July 20, 2014 by mafalda

The old print which RLS is alluding here still remains unidentified. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 2, 388]. To Fanny Sitwell [Colvin, 1912, pp. … Continue reading →

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Why don’t they stamp their foot upon the ground and awake?

Posted on May 27, 2014 by mafalda

Back to Swanston Cottage, from his yachting tour in the Inner Hebrides with his friend Sir Walter Simpson. George Grove is for some years before and after this date the editor of Macmillan’s Magazine. After the Knox articles no more … Continue reading →

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It is like a wind blowing to one out of fairyland

Posted on April 2, 2014 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sir Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 1, 187, dated Dec. 7]. To Mrs. Sitwell [Colvin 1912, pp. 41-43] [Menton, December, 1873], Sunday. The first … Continue reading →

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We have had many other wild misadventures

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I take one of my meals in a little French restaurant; for the other two, I sponge

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I have survived myself, and somehow live on, a curious changeling, a merry ghost

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Why don’t they stamp their foot upon the ground and awake?

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It is like a wind blowing to one out of fairyland

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