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R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
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R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : The Impenitent Thief
'The "Impenitent Thief" has been read more than once. I've read it several times alone and I've read it aloud to my wife. Every word has found a home.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Serial / periodical
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Bristol Fashion Pt.2 in Saturday Review
'The "Bristol Fashion" business is excellently well put. You seem to know a lot about every part of the world and what's more you can say what you know in a most individual way.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Serial / periodical
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Notes on the District of Menteith
'The Guide book simply magnificent Everlastingly good! [sic].I've read it last night having only then returned home.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Higginson's Dream
'"Higginson's Dream" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flattered that you discern some points of similitude. Of course I am in complete sympathy with the point of view. For the same accomplishmnet in expression I can never hope--and Robert [Cunninghame Grahame] is too strong an individuality [sic] to be influenced by anyone's writing. He desired me to correct the proofs but the "Sat. Rev" people did not send me the proofs.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Serial / periodical
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : letter in Daily Chronicle "Pax Britannica"
'Today, from your kindness, I received the "Chronicle" with Robert's [Cunninghame Graham] letter. C'est bien ca -- c'est bien lui!' [Its good, that-- it's really him!]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Newspaper
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : 'A Paheka'
'The thing ["A Paheka" ] in "West.Gaz." is excellent, excellent.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Serial / periodical
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : The Ipane
''I hold "Ipane". Hoch! Hurra! Vivat! May you live! And now I know I am virtuous because I read and had no pang of jealousy. There are things in that volume that are like magic and though space and through the distance of regretted years convey to one the actual feeling, the sights, the sounds, the thoughts; one steps on the earth, breathes the air and has the sensation of your past. I know of course every sketch; what was almost a surprise was the extraordinarily good convincing effect of the whole. [...] I have read it already three times.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Cruz Alta
'I've read "Cruz Alta" four days ago. c'est tout simplement magnifique. I know most of the sketches, in fact nearly all, except "Cruz Alta" itself.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Vanished Arcadia
'I am altogether under the charm of that book ["The Vanished Arcadia"] in accord with its spirit and full of admiration for its expression.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767
'I have been reading again the "[A] Vanished Arcadia" - from the dedication, so full of charm,to the last paragraph with its ironic aside about the writers of books "proposing something and concluding nothing" - and its exquisite last lines..'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : A Convert (?)
'Your Saturday Review fling is first rate. Nothing I liked more since the gold-fish carrier story'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Serial / periodical
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Hernando de Soto: together with an account of one of his captains, Gonçalo Silvestre.
'Next to tell you that "H.[Hernando]de Soto" is most exquisitely excellent: your very mark and spirit upon a subject that only you can do justice to-with your wonderful English and your sympathetic insight insto the souls of the Conquistadores.' Thence follows half a page of praise.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : Progress and Other Stories
'This moment I receive "Progress", or rather the moment (last night) occurred favorably to let me read before I sat down to write. Nothing in my writing life[...] has give mre a greater pleasure, a deeper satisfaction of innocent vanity [...] than the dedication of the book so full of admirable things, from the wonderful preface to the slightest of the sketches between the covers.' Hence follow nine more lines of unqualified praise.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham : His People
'I've read your book ["His People"] with the usual delight and more than the usual admiration.[...] Three times I've gone through your pages so vigorous, so personal and so exquisite. What a "Return of the Native" you have given us! "His People" is a wonderful piece of description and an amazing piece of analysis.'
