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List of all works currently known ( April 10,2008) to have emanated from the hand of Robert Stephenson. http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/collected-donston.html |
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April 10th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Note to the reader:
In the Borderland article entitled, A Modern Magician…the following excerpt will be shown to be missing the numerical age which Stephenson mentioned in the original copy of the Borderland Magazine
“II.- LORD LYTTON.
MY INTRODUCTION TO LORD LYTON.
It was in the winter after the publication of the weird ” Strange Story ” in which the Master attempted to teach the world many new and important truths (under the veil of fiction) that I made the acquaintance at Paris of young Lytton, the son of (the then) Sir Edward. He was at that time, I suppose, about ten years my senior; and though passionately attached to his father, who was both father and mother to him, did not share my intense admiration and enthusiasm for his mystic studies and his profound lore.
Anyhow, in the spring following, he presented me to his father as an earnest student of occultism. I was then about an years of age, and I suppose Sir Edward was attracted to me partly by my irrepressible hero-worship, of which he was the object, and partly because he saw that I possessed a cool, logical brain and iron nerve ; and, above all, was genuinely, terribly in earnest…”
The age should read 22, not the word “an”.