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Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson— Volume 1
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Letter: to Sidney Colvin
ON BOARD SS. ’DEVONIA,’ AN HOUR OR TWO OUT OF NEW YORK [AUGUST 1879].
MY DEAR COLVIN, - I have finished my story. The handwriting is not good because of the ship’s misconduct: thirty-one pages in ten days at sea is not bad.
I shall write a general procuration about this story on another bit of paper. I am not very well; bad food, bad air, and hard work have brought me down. But the spirits keep good. The voyage has been most interesting, and will make, if not a series of PALL MALL articles, at least the first part of a new book. The last weight on me has been trying to keep notes for this purpose. Indeed, I have worked like a horse, and am now as tired as a donkey. If I should have to push on far by rail, I shall bring nothing but my fine bones to port.
Good-bye to you all. I suppose it is now late afternoon with you and all across the seas. What shall I find over there? I dare not wonder. - Ever yours,
R. L. S.
P.S. - I go on my way to-night, if I can; if not, tomorrow: emigrant train ten to fourteen days’ journey; warranted extreme discomfort. The only American institution which has yet won my respect is the rain. One sees it is a new country, they are so free with their water. I have been steadily drenched for twentyfour hours; water-proof wet through; immortal spirit fitfully blinking up in spite. Bought a copy of my own work, and the man said ’by Stevenson.’ - ’Indeed,’ says I. - ’Yes, sir,’ says he. - Scene closes.
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Chicago: Robert Louis Stevenson, "Letter: To Sidney Colvin," Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson— Volume 1, ed. Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915 and trans. Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906 in Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson—Volume 1 Original Sources, accessed January 15, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=T1PT6XV7NMDTGQJ.
MLA: Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Letter: To Sidney Colvin." Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson— Volume 1, edited by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915, and translated by Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906, in Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson—Volume 1, Original Sources. 15 Jan. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=T1PT6XV7NMDTGQJ.
Harvard: Stevenson, RL, 'Letter: To Sidney Colvin' in Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson— Volume 1, ed. and trans. . cited in , Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson—Volume 1. Original Sources, retrieved 15 January 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=T1PT6XV7NMDTGQJ.
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