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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: April CONTEMPORARY - but I dare say you see it anyway - as it will
contain a paper of mine on style, a sort of continuation of old
arguments on art in which you have wagged a most effective tongue.
It is a sort of start upon my Treatise on the Art of Literature: a
small, arid book that shall some day appear.
With every good wish from me and mine (should I not say 'she and
hers'?) to you and yours, believe me yours ever,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Letter: TO P. G. HAMERTON
BOURNEMOUTH, MARCH 16, 1885.
MY DEAR HAMERTON, - Various things have been reminding me of my
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