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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson (17); Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin
The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin - 17 Author:Robert Louis Stevenson Volume: 17 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Scribner's Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or m... more »issing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 1890 Soon, if the tide of poeshie continues, I'll send you a Nov- whole lot to damn. You never said thank-you for the handsome tribute addressed to you from Apemama;1 such is the gratitude of the world to the God-sent poick. Well, well : -- " Vex not thou the poick's mind, With thy coriaceous ingratitude, The P. will be to your faults more than a little blind, And yours is a far from handsome attitude." Having thus dropped into poetry in a spirit of friendship, I have the honour to subscribe myself, Sir, Your obedient humble servant, Silas Wegg. I suppose by this you will have seen the lad -- and his feet will have been in the Monument -- and his eyes beheld the face of George. Well! There is much eloquence in a well! I am, Sir Yours The Epigrammatist ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON FINIS -- EXPLICIT. 1 The lines beginning " I heard the pulse of the besieging sea," printed in Longman's Magazine, January, 1895. 8 " The Monument " was his name for my house at the British Museum, and George is my old faithful servant, George Went; bom 1819, died 1893. Vailima, Tuesday, Novimher 25, 1890. My Dear Colvin, -- I wanted to go out bright and l89 early to go on with my survey. You never heard of that. The world has turned, and much water run under bridges, since I stopped my diary. I have written six more chapters of the book, all good 1 potently believe, and given up, as a deception of the devil's, the High Woods. I have been once down to Apia, to...« less