'All right, I'll see what I can do....Does the "sans extract" mean that I [italics] simply God-damn-mustn't [end italics] put in an extract. Please explain...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: BookManuscript: Letter
'There is rather a nice article of Colvin?s in this "Macmillan".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson
'Colvin?s article on B.C. was so much better than I had expected; he had the courage (which I lacked) to find fault; if I had dared to do so, I might have praised much more.'
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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson
'I say Colvin, your Titian is no end, and has pleased my mother as much as me: no end, also, is your description of that incarnate devil Maclise one of the wickedest incarnations of the spirit of (artistic) unnatural crime that ever lived.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
'The gay and free S.C. has at last written to me; but has not pleased me: does he think I can do anything with my “Spring-time”, that’s what I want to know.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
'I say, how nice S.C.’s ‘Walker’ is.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Given the date of the letter, RLS may have read the article in proof.
'My dear Colvin, Thanks for your pencilations. One thing only, remains; how am I to call the followers of Orso and Manfredi.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter, annotations
'I say your pavement is d−d jolly.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
[I have seen] 'Your "Art and Criticism", likewise there'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
'The Brittany game is simply “on it”. There are no two ways of that. [ref.to Note 1] Look here, my young and lovely friend, if you overwork like that, your numskull will cave in again.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, noticing that Keats's mind was "naturally unapt for dogma", that Keats and Hunt were given to "luxuriating" over "deliciousness", and that Reynolds came from Shrewsbury and "lacked health and energy". He involved himself similarly in the poems. "Endymion" and 'Lamia' kept his pencil especially busy as he underlined rich vocabulary and marked lush descriptions, including that of the sleeping Adonis. A bookmarker in "Endymion", embroidered with the text "create in me a clean heart O God", seems to have prayed in vain among sensuous passages in which he evidently delighted, but perhaps guilt overcame him after reading 'Lamia', because four pages of erotic description have been carefully stuck together'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen Print: Book
'Here I am, here. And very well too. And I read your hymn, which is a very good hymn. And I was delighted with how you patted Pater on the back and promised him some cake if he kept a good little boy till the holidays.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
'I read your “Giotto”; it’s almighty well written, I don’t know how the devil you can write like that.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
'I read your “Grosvenor”; I’ve seen more interesting articles of yours (beg parding!); but it seemed to me very nice in tone, and I think all the fellows should be pleased, except perhaps poor Tissot. I can’t think anything “debased and odious” that has such a nice light and air about it, as anything of his I ever saw; that seems to me to be an ideal after a fashion.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
'... and I agree with you I could choose no better model than Colvin's admirable Landor.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
'It is a most delightful lecture and most judiciously illustrated, if a mind so uncultivated as mine dares express an opinion.'
Hence follows a page of appreciative comment.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad
'I am at the Inland Voyage again [...] The Preface shall stand over, as you suggest, until the last and then, sir, we shall see.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
'I am so sorry to hear you have trouble too; fortunately there is no need to bother about Paris, things having been comfortably arranged without. And indeed F. is too unwell to bear a visitor at all, even her; so it would have had to be given up at any rate. Thanks all the same.
Please send me the specimen page. I am afraid to write to Paul myself lest I should spoil the bargain. But money I must have, as soon as may be; if you like I will write to him and take the bother off your shoulders; yes, I will; I ought.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
'Received. The book. Have signed and sent off agreement with Paul. Thanks a million times for your ten pounds. There was absolutely not a penny going.[…] I hope to God the proofs will come soon.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
'This morning on opening my eyes I saw the noble vol [on Keats] delicately deposited by my side, while I slept, by Jessie's instructions (I live en vieux garçon, in the spare room now); and now after reading the preface and looking at the illustrations I sit down in robe-de-chambre and pantoufles to thank you for the copy, for the inscription [...]'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'The whole household went to bed early [...] then with a mind refreshed and made receptive [...] I sat down to read your two articles — and it was a delightful (c'est le mot juste) experience.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Manuscript: Sheet
'I have read (before breakfast) your "Gambetta" a most excellent thing both as picture and appreciation of the man.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Manuscript: Unknown
'I have received a nice letter from Colvin. He says my room is delightful; but there was a green curtain which ‘put his teeth on edge’. What should this be? Not the purity of the Scottish Mind? He told me he thought the prophet was beginning to be more honoured in his own country, and reported statements relative to ‘W[ill] of the Mill’, which were eminently pleasing.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
'The readng of "Memories and Notes" has been one continuous delight. As you know I have been privileged to see some of these papers even in typescript and some in their serial form. But the quality of their interest and freshness is of the kind that does not perish in the reading and re-reading.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'I should have known your article at any rate; thank you for it, it was very nice to read.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
