Word: letters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...previous letter I urged that we owe it both to the public and to ourselves to make clear the reasons for drilling on Sunday. It did not occur to me to say, as your correspondent of yesterday suggests, that the order for Sunday drill was unjust...
Sirs: As to the question of the Regiment's manoeuvering on Sunday, Professor Hocking's letter expressed the injustice of it. Yet the members went on their own responsibility and consent; and while the marches doubtlessly offended many of the laity, they had not yet interfered with the liberty of the men themselves. But now the regimental government has made compulsory two Sunday exercises, on the 21st and the 28th. It points out that this time is no more than equivalent to the time which the problems, to which we agreed, should have demanded. But then we agreed...
Stevenson's Letter to Ireland...
...Ireland's gift to Widener is a letter Stevenson wrote her husband in reply to a note informing Stevenson of the source of some allusions in "A Gossip on Romance," a magazine article of 1883 written by the English literary man on his dim recollections of some stories his parents read to him when a boy. The third point he makes is more generally interesting and amusing than the first two. The point of the letter is that Mr. Ireland had, as he himself declared, addressed the epistle with "inspired stupidity" to "Mr. R. L. Stephenson." The letter reads...
...There are two names, Stephenson and Stevenson. The one is English, the other Scotch. The one may be the name of the devil for what I know; the other is mine. You know, by the Wellers, what immortal hatred may be kindled by a letter. And I own I grind under this which robs me, not only of my ancestors, but of my native country; and I grind the harder since I see an American publisher actually announcing my own books, and in type, under this travesty. I am, Dear Sir, Yours truly, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Not Steph...