the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

Frances Sitwell : letter

?Your letter came this morning. I own I am troubled about its contents: I fear for your health, dear friend, in such an ordeal as that to which you propose to subject yourself. Be wise, for all people?s sakes; and if there be real fear, as I imagine, for your precious life, rather front the ugliest alternative.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter

Frances Sitwell : letter

?I got a quiet seat behind a yew hedge and went away into a meditation. It [i.e. the windswept scene in the garden at Swanston Cottage] somehow reminded me of your letter from Bishopsbourne, now alas! in cinders. O I grudge those letters I burned.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Manuscript: Letter, Passage refers to various letters from Frances Sitwell to RLS, dates and subjects unspecified here. Letters received by RLS before 4 June 1874 [date ascribed by the editors to the cited passage].

Click check box to select all entries on this page: