ABBREVIATIONS
CB – Charles Baxter
FJS – Frances Jane Sitwell
FS – Fanny Stevenson (née Vandegrift, formerly Osbourne)
GB – Graham Balfour
HJ – Henry James
IF – Isobel Field (née Osbourne, formerly Strong; ‘Belle’)
LO – Samuel Lloyd Osbourne
MIS – Margaret Isabella Stevenson (née Balfour)
RAMS – Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson
RLS – Robert Louis Stevenson
SC – Sidney Colvin
TS – Thomas Stevenson
WEH – William Ernest Henley
BL – Manuscript Collections, British Library
MS Bancroft – Stevenson-Osbourne family papers 1839–1970, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California
MS Silverado – Manuscripts relating to Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Osbourne and her family in the collection of the Silverado Museum, St Helena, California
MS Yale – Robert Louis Stevenson Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
NLS – National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
NLS Balfour – National Library of Scotland, Papers of Sir Graham Balfour
Balfour – Graham Balfour, The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 vols (London and New York, 1901)
Bathurst – Bella Bathurst, The Lighthouse Stevensons (London, 1999)
Baxter Letters – Delancey Ferguson and Marshall Waingrow (eds), R.L.S.: Stevenson’s Letters to Charles Baxter (London and New Haven, 1956)
Collected Poems – The Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, ed. Roger C. Lewis (Edinburgh, 2003)
Colvin – Sidney Colvin, Memories and Notes (London, 1921)
Field – Isobel Strong Field, This Life I’ve Loved (London, 1937)
From Saranac – Margaret Isabella Stevenson, From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond (London, 1903)
Furnas – J.C. Furnas, Voyage to Windward: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (London, 1952)
Gosse – Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats (London, 1913)
Hammerton – J.A. Hammerton (ed.), Stevensoniana: An Anecdotal Life and Appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1907)
ICR – Rosaline Masson (ed.), I Can Remember Robert Louis Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1925)
Letters – Bradford A. Booth and Ernest Mehew (eds), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, 8 vols (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994–95)
Lucas – E.V. Lucas, The Colvins and their Friends (London, 1928)
Maixner – Paul Maixner (ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage (London, 1981)
‘Memoirs’ – ‘Memoirs of Himself’, Vailima Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, vol. 26
Portrait – Lloyd Osbourne, An Intimate Portrait of R.L.S. (New York, 1924)
Swearingen – Roger G. Swearingen, The Prose Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Guide (London, 1980)
Tusitala – The Tusitala Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, 35 vols (London, 1923–24)
Vailima – The Vailima Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, 26 vols (New York and London, 1923)
1 MS Yale
2 ‘Records of a Family of Engineers’, Vailima, vol. 12, p.411
3 ‘The Lamplighter’, Collected Poems, p.39
4 ‘Records of a Family of Engineers’, Vailima, vol. 12, pp.426–7
5 Ibid., pp.432–3
6 Quoted in Bathurst, p.72
7 Ibid., pp.99–100
8 ‘Thomas Stevenson, Civil Engineer’, Vailima, vol. 12, p.106
9 Ibid., p.107
10 Quoted in Bathurst, p.103
11 Letters, vol. 8, p.235
12 Collected Poems, p.98
13 Balfour, vol. 1, p.22
14 Ibid., p.9
15 MS Huntington, the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, quoted and partly published in ibid., p.18
16 Balfour, vol. 1, p.20
17 Ibid., p.24
18 Hammerton, p.5
19 ‘Thomas Stevenson, Civil Engineer’, Vailima, vol. 12, p.108
20 MS Bancroft
21 Vailima, vol. 7. p.428
22 Quoted in Letters, vol. 1, p.31
23 TS to MIS, 21 June 1848, MS Bancroft
24 Ibid., 1 March 1850
25 FS to Dora Williams, September 1880, MS Yale
26 Balfour, vol. 1, p.8
27 J.C. Furnas suggests that this may have been due to thyroid problems, and that the ‘croup’ might have been diphtheria; see Furnas, p.421 n8 and 9
28 ‘Notes of Childhood’, MS Yale, vault 805, box 2
29 ‘Memoirs’, p.220
30 FS, in Preface to Collected Poems, Biographical Collection of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (New York, 1908), p.vi
31 ‘Notes of Childhood’, MS Yale, vault 805, box 2
32 ‘A Chapter on Dreams’, Vailima, vol. 12, p.234
33 ‘Notes of Childhood’, MS Yale, vault 805, box 2
34 ‘Memoirs’, pp.215–16
35 Ibid., p.217
36 ‘Stevenson’s Infancy’, Vailima, vol. 26, p.276
37 Ibid., p.280
38 ‘Memoirs’, pp.209–10
39 NLS, Acc 10356
40 MS Bancroft, Robert Louis Stevenson collection of letters and papers c.1873–1949, C-H 107
41 Furnas, p.31
42 ‘Memoirs’, p.220
43 Hammerton, p.12
44 Vailima, vol. 26, p.295
45 ICR, p.152
46 ‘Memoirs’, p.218
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid., p.211
49 FS, in Preface to Collected Poems, Biographical Collection of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (New York, 1908), p.vii
50 ‘Memoirs’, p.214
51 ‘Reminiscences of Colinton Manse’, MS Yale, vault 805, box 2
52 ‘Memoirs’, p.213
53 ‘Reminiscences of Colinton Manse’, MS Yale, vault 805, box 2
54 RLS to WEH, June 1881, Letters, vol. 3, p.199
55 ‘A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured’, Vailima, vol. 12, pp. 169–70
56 Letters, vol. 1, p.95
57 Ibid., p.98
58 Cummy’s Diary: A diary kept by Robert Louis Stevenson’s nurse, Alison Cunningham, while travelling with him on the continent during 1863, with a preface and notes by Robert T. Skinner (London, 1926), p.2
59 Ibid., p.54
60 Ibid., p.37
61 Ibid., p.60
62 Ibid., p.7
63 RLS to Emily Robertson, Letters, vol. 5, p.83
64 NLS Balfour, 9897, ff128–9
65 Balfour, vol. 1, p.87
66 NLS Balfour, 9895, f118
2 : VELVET COAT
1 Letters, vol. 1, p.111
2 Vailima, vol. 26, pp.47–8
3 Jane Whyte Balfour to Graham Balfour, 25 January 1900, NLS Balfour, 9895, f15
4 Maude Parry to SC, n.d., NLS Balfour, 9896
5 ICR, pp.34–5
6 As related by the shepherd’s son; ibid., p.35
7 ‘Pastoral’, Memories and Portraits, Vailima, vol. 12, pp.76–7
8 Note to ‘Underwoods’, Collected Poems, p.71
9 Vailima, vol. 12, p.19
10 Charles Guthrie, Robert Louis Stevenson: Some Personal Recollections (Edinburgh, 1924), p.24
11 ‘A Layman’ (Thomas Stevenson), The Immutable Laws of Nature in Relation to God’s Providence (Edinburgh and London, 1868), pp.12–13
12 Vailima, vol. 12, p.375
13 Letters, vol. 1, p.121
14 Memories and Portraits, Vailima, vol. 12, pp.50–1
15 Letters, vol. 6, p.47
16 Vailima, vol. 12, pp.49–50
17 Letters, vol. 1, p.130
18 ‘The Education of an Engineer’, Vailima, vol. 12, p.376
19 Ibid.
20 Letters, vol. 1, p.132
21 Ibid., p.136
22 Colvin, p.108
23 Letters, vol. 1, p.142
24 ‘Thomas Stevenson, Civil Engineer’, Vailima, vol. 12, p.105
25 ‘The Education of an Engineer’, Vailima, vol. 12, pp.379, 380
26 Ibid.
27 ‘On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places’, Vailima, vol. 24, p.340. I have Graham Robb to thank for identifying the quote from Béranger’s ‘Le Refus’
28 Letters, vol. 1, p.157
29 Ibid., p.143
30 Eve Blantyre Simpson, Robert Louis Stevenson (Boston and London, 1906), pp.34–5
31 Letters, vol. 4, pp.305–6
32 MS Yale, vault 805, box 2
33 Letters, vol. 1, p.166
34 Ibid.
35 ‘Notes of Childhood’, MS Yale, vault 805, box 2
36 Ibid., p.4
37 The Memoirs of Walter Pringle of Greenknow, ed. W. Wood (Edinburgh, 1847), p.6
38 Moray Maclaren, Stevenson and Edinburgh: A Centenary Study (London, 1950), p.80
39 Quoted in Letters, vol. 1, p.210
40 Eve Blantyre Simpson, Robert Louis Stevenson (Boston and London, 1906), pp.29–31
41 Letters, vol. 1, p.211
42 Eve Blantyre Simpson, Robert Louis Stevenson (Boston and London, 1906), pp.29, 40
43 ICR, p.159. The second meaning of ‘yellow yite’ in the Scottish National Dictionary, vol.10 (Edinburgh, 1976), is ‘a person of small stature’, ‘also [ … ] a general term of contempt’
44 ‘My brain swims empty and light’, Collected Poems, p.260
45 NLS Balfour, 9895, f155
46 This section of RLS’s fragmentary autobiography, written in 1880, is in NLS Balfour, 9897
47 ‘A College Magazine’, Vailima, vol. 12, p.59
48 ‘You looked so tempting in the pew’, Collected Poems, pp.243–4
49 ‘Duddingston’, ibid., p.245
50 ‘Talk and Talkers’, 2nd paper, Vailima, vol. 12, p.144
51 NLS Balfour, 9896
52 ‘Memoirs’, p.223
53 Letters, vol. 1, p.208
54 Ibid., p.193
55 MS Yale; published in Tusitala, vol. 30, and in the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
56 Vailima, vol. 12, pp.235–6
57 Letters, vol. 1, p.188
58 Ibid., p.198
59 Gosse, p.276
60 Ibid., p.277
61 Kidnapped, Vailima, vol. 9, pp.170–1
62 Memories and Portraits, Vailima, vol. 12, p.98
63 It was printed posthumously as an ‘unfinished treatise’ in the Edinburgh Edition
64 ‘Reflections and Remarks on Human Life’, Vailima, vol. 26, p.117
65 ‘A College Magazine’, Vailima, vol. 12, p.58
66 Quoted in Letters, vol. 1, p.41 n3
67 Collected Poems, p.312
68 ‘Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin’, Vailima, vol. n, p.529
69 NLS, Acc 4534
70 D.A. Stevenson to GB, n.d., NLS Balfour, 9895, f37
71 Letters, vol. 6, p.47
72 MS Yale, box 2, vol. 4, folder D
3 : THE CARELESS INFIDEL
1 Charles Guthrie, Robert Louis Stevenson: Some Personal Recollections (Edinburgh, 1924), p.31
2 NLS, MS 9822, Law Notes, Caricatures, Drawings and Verses
3 ICR, p.100
4 Ibid., p.101
5 Charles Guthrie, Robert Louis Stevenson: Some Personal Recollections (Edinburgh, 1924), P.34
6 Sir Alfred Ewing, An Engineer’s Outlook (London, n.d.), p.250
7 ICR, p.123
8 An amusing account of how this yacht, the Purgle, got into trouble on its maiden voyage is included in RLS’s ‘Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin’, Vailima, vol. 11
9 Flora Masson recalling ‘Louis Stevenson in Edinburgh’, ICR, pp.135–6
10 ‘Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin’, Vailima, vol. 11, pp.526–7
11 Literary Papers, Vailima, vol. 4, p.472
12 ICR, p.53
13 Ibid., p.52
14 ‘Lay Morals’, Vailima, vol. 24, p.186
15 J.A. Symonds, Walt Whitman: A Study (1893), p.40
16 ‘Walt Whitman’, Vailima, vol. 4, p.114
17 Though it was never completed; see Swearingen, p.11
18 ICR, p.58
19 Ibid., p.95
20 Flora Masson, Victorians All (Edinburgh, 1931), p.93
21 ICR, p.46
22 ‘Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin’, Vailima, vol. 11, p.519
23 Flora Masson, Victorians All (Edinburgh, 1931), pp.100, 101
24 Balfour, vol. 1, p.109
25 Ibid., p.11
26 Ibid.
27 ‘Talk and Talkers’, 1st paper, Vailima, vol. 12, p.121
28 Ibid., pp.112–13
29 Portrait, p.5
30 Letters, vol. 1, p.273
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid., p.274
33 Ibid., p.296
34 Colvin, p.104
35 ICR, p.88
36 Lucas, p.64
37 Ibid., pp.338–9
38 ‘HB’ [Cotter Morrison] to FJS, MS Yale, vault 805, folder M; ‘X’ [Sidney Colvin], Her Infinite Variety, ed. E.V. Lucas (London, 1908), p.71; Letters, vol. 1, p.303
39 ‘X’ [Sidney Colvin], Her Infinite Variety, ed. E.V. Lucas (London, 1908), p.71
40 ICR, p.88
41 Colvin, p.103
42 Ibid., p.101
43 See the very thorough investigation of the available ‘Claire’ material in Furnas, pp.394–9
44 Letters, vol. 1, p.319
45 Ibid., pp.293, 292
46 ICR, p.88
47 ‘X’ [Sidney Colvin], Her Infinite Variety, ed. E.V. Lucas (London, 1908), pp.71–2
48 E.V. Lucas, Reading, Writing and Remembering: A Literary Record (London, 1932), p.61
49 ‘At the Land’s End of France’ was reproduced in the last chapter of Colvin’s Memories and Notes
50 Ernest Mehew sees Mrs Sitwell and Colvin as a pair from the start, mutually concerned in these years for their young friend. Furnas sees the possibility of Mrs Sitwell having ‘slipped into carnal congress with Louis or any other disciple’ as ‘most unlikely’; Furnas, p.84
51 Quoted in Letters, vol. 1, p.477n
52 NLS Balfour, 9894, f233
53 FS to GB, November 1899, NLS Balfour, 9894, f274
54 Letters, vol. 1, p.288
55 Ibid.
56 Ibid., pp.320–1
57 Ibid., p.369
58 Ibid., pp.336–7
59 Ibid., p.294
60 Ibid., p.295
61 Ibid.
62 Ibid., p.294
63 Ibid., p.312
64 Ibid.
65 Ibid., p.325
66 Ibid., p.331
67 ‘Notes from his Mother’s Diary’, Vailima, vol. 26, p.325
68 Letters, vol. 1, p.354
4 : AH WELLESS
1 Letters, vol. 1, p.352
2 ‘Ordered South’, Vailima, vol. 2, p.104
3 Ibid., pp.110–11
4 Letters, vol. 1, p.375
5 Ibid., p.395
6 Ibid., p.402
7 Ibid., p.401
8 See ibid., p.422
9 Vailima, vol. 24, p.320
10 Letters, vol. 1, p.506
11 Ibid., p.430
12 Letters, vol. 2, p.317
13 Letters, vol. 6, p.269
14 Colvin, p.114
15 Letters, vol. 1, p.457
16 Ibid., pp.437, 42–9
17 SC, fragmentary recollections, not included in Memories and Notes, MS Yale, vault 805, box 2, folder G
18 Letters, vol. 1, pp.464–5. (The conjectural reading of two or three inked-out words is by Ernest Mehew)
19 Ibid., p.501
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid., p.504
22 Ibid.
23 Letters, vol. 2, p.10
24 Andrew Lang, Adventures Among Books (London, 1903), p.43
25 Letters, vol. 2, p.3
26 Ibid., p.1
27 Furnas, p.96
28 Letters, vol. 2, p.25
29 Ibid., p.26
30 Gosse, p.281
31 Ibid., p.282
32 Ibid., pp.279–80
33 Balfour, vol. 1, p.176
34 E.V. Lucas, Reading, Writing and Remembering (London, 1932), p.60
35 Letters, vol. 2, p.33
36 Ibid., p.32
37 Ibid., p.43
38 Vailima, vol. 5, p.xx
39 Letters, vol. 2, p.74
40 ‘On Lord Lytton’s Fables in Song’, Vailima, vol. 24, p.54
41 Fables, Vailima, vol. 25, p.249
42 Jorge Luis Borges, Conversations, ed. Richard Burgin (Jackson, 1998). Daniel Balderston, in his PhD thesis, ‘Borges’s Frame of Reference: The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson’ (Princeton University, 1981), records Borges’s interjections during a reading of ‘The Song of the Morrow’, showing the great writer’s delight at Stevenson’s phraseology
43 Vailima, vol. 24, p.50
44 Miscellanea, Vailima, vol. 26
45 Letters, vol. 2, p.41
46 Vailima, vol. 26, p.104
47 Letters, vol. 2, p.41 n3
48 J.A. MacCulloch, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Bridge of Allan (1927), p.151
49 Letters, vol. 2, p.4
50 Ibid., p.145
51 Ibid., p.95
52 Ibid., p.97
53 Ibid., pp.97–8
54 Ibid., p.98
55 Letters, vol. 1, p.385
56 Letters, vol. 2, p.94 and n
57 Ibid., pp.96–7, 108
58 Ibid., p.104
59 Ibid., p.198
60 Ibid., pp.76–7
61 Ibid., p.124
62 Ibid., p.114
63 ‘A Summer Night’, reprinted in Appendix to ibid., p.334
64 Ibid., p.117
65 Ibid., pp.120, 124
66 In a letter to FJS, ?8 May 1875, ibid., p.135
67 ‘In Hospital’, The Works of W.E. Henley (London, 1908), vol. 1
68 Ibid.
69 Letters, vol. 2, p.132
70 Ibid., p.123
71 Ibid., p.123 n1
72 ‘Forest Notes’, Vailima, vol. 24, pp.391–2
73 Ibid., pp.392–3
74 Portrait, p.3
75 Details from Margaret B. Wright, ‘Bohemian Days’, Scribner’s Monthly, vol. 16 (May 1878), pp.121–9
76 The Wrecker, Chapter 2, Vailima, vol. 17, p.63
77 Letters, vol. 2, p.130
78 Ibid., p.125
79 ICR, p.114
80 Ibid., p.96
81 Ibid., p.295
82 NLS Balfour, 9897, f107
83 ICR, p.162
84 Ibid., p.65
85 Letters, vol. 2, p. 166
86 ICR, p.65
87 Graham Balfour’s notes, taken from conversations with RLS; NLS Balfour, 9897, ff109, 110
88 Eve Blantyre Simpson, Robert Louis Stevenson (Boston and London, 1906), p.42
5 : STENNIS FRÈRE
1 FS to Timothy Rearden, Paris, June 1876, MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 32
2 Margaret Mackay, The Violent Friend (London, 1969), p.4
3 Daily Territorial Enterprise, 1862–63, quoted in Mark Twain, Roughing It (Mark Twain Library edition, Berkeley, 1995), p.176
4 Alexandra Lapierre, Fanny Stevenson (London, 1995), does not specify the sources
5 Field, p. 17
6 Quoted in Alexandra Lapierre, Fanny Stevenson (London, 1995), p.33
7 Field, p.17
8 Ibid., p.18
9 Alexandra Lapierre, Fanny Stevenson (London, 1995), p.40
10 Mark Twain, Roughing It (Mark Twain Library edition, Berkeley, 1995), pp.281–2
11 Ibid., p.282
12 Quoted in Alexandra Lapierre, Fanny Stevenson (London, 1995), p.57
13 Nellie Vandegrift Sanchez, The Life of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson (1920), pp.30–1
14 Field, p.45
15 FS to Timothy Rearden, n.d., ?1864, MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 3
16 Ibid., letter 35
17 Ibid., letter 25
18 Field, p.82
19 Ibid., p.80
20 Ibid., p.81
21 FS to Dora Williams, 25 August 1875, MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3834
22 Ibid.
23 FS to Timothy Rearden, 31 October 1875, MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 24
24 MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3834
25 FS to Timothy Rearden, 18 April 1876, MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 31
26 Field, p.104
27 Perhaps this was something like the incident in ‘The Misadventures of John Nicolson’ when John goes briefly on the run to escape duns. The cryptic references to RLS’s ‘trouble’ are in Letters, vol. 2, pp.178 and n6, 181 and n2
28 Ibid., p.176
29 ‘Virginibus Puerisque’, Vailima, vol. 2, p.11
30 Ibid., p.20
31 Ibid., pp.25, 16, 25
32 Vailima, vol. 1, pp.53–4
33 Ibid., p.104
34 Colvin, p.109
35 Vailima, vol. 1, p.137
36 Ibid., p.96
37 Ibid., p.131
38 Ibid., pp.131–2
39 Quoted in Maixner, p.56
40 Ibid., p.8
41 Mehew shows in Letters, vol. 2, p.191 nI that RLS was in Paris on 20 September 1876, and again in mid-October on his way back to Edinburgh (which he reached on 16 October). I am therefore guessing that RLS went from Pontoise to Paris briefly (he says in his letter he was buying books there), then on to Grez, where Simpson would have preceded him by a few days
42 ICR, p.173
43 Margaret B. Wright, ‘Bohemian Days’, Scribner’s Monthly, vol. 16 (May 1878)
44 Ibid.
45 FS to Timothy Rearden, April 1877, MS Silverado
46 FS to Timothy Rearden, 25 July 1876, MS Silverado
47 ‘A Ball at Mr Elsinare’s’, The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays (ed. Jeremy Treglown; London, 1988), p.52
48 Vailima, vol. 2, p.43
49 Letters, vol. 2, p.193
50 FS to Timothy Rearden, 13 December 1876, MS Silverado
51 FS to Timothy Rearden, ‘p.m. Feb 1877 Paris’, MS Yale
52 FS to Timothy Rearden, 13 December 1876, MS Silverado
53 The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays (ed. Jeremy Treglown; London, 1988), p.52
54 Letters, vol. 2, p.199
55 Ibid., p.205
56 Ibid., p.208
57 Vailima, vol. 3, p.348
58 See Letters, vol. 2, p.145 n3
59 Ibid., p.236
60 Ibid., pp.218, 219
61 Quoted in ibid., p.225 n1
62 Colvin, p.130
63 Vailima, vol. 1, p.440
64 Letters, vol. 2, p.227
65 Ibid., pp.241–2
66 Ibid., pp.244, 240
67 Maixner, p.54
68 Hammerton, pp.35–6
69 Related by Birge Harrison in ICR, p.179
70 Field, p.111
71 Balfour, vol. 1, p.188
72 Portrait, p.13
6 : THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT
1 Letters, vol. 2, p.268
2 Vailima, vol. 1, p.210
3 Ibid., p.216
4 Ibid., p.217
5 Ibid., p.220
6 Ibid., p.249
7 Letters, vol. 2, p.313
8 Vailima, vol. 1, p.277
9 Ibid., p.230
10 Ibid., pp.297–8
11 Richard Holmes, Footsteps (London, 1985), p.54
12 RLS, The Cévennes Journal: Notes on a Journey Through the French Highlands, ed. Gordon Golding et al. (Edinburgh, 1978), p.81
13 Letters, vol. 2, pp.280–1
14 ‘Echoes’ no. xxiv, The Works of W.E. Henley (London, 1908), vol. 1
15 Gosse, p.282
16 Letters, vol. 2, pp.297–8
17 Ibid., p.300
18 See Malcolm Elwin, The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson (London, 1950), p.2, and Swearingen, p.41
19 ‘Lay Morals’, Vailima, vol. 24, p.202
20 Colvin provided this information; see Letters, vol. 2, p. 314 n7
21 Philip Gosse, My Pirate Library (London, 1926), pp.9–10
22 Quoted in Letters, vol. 2, p.330 n6
23 Ibid., p.330
24 SC to WEH, quoted in Lucas, p.113
25 Letters, vol. 2, p.315
26 MS Yale; see Letters, vol. 3, p.7 n2 and Baxter Letters, p.66 n11
27 See www.unibg.it/rls and follow ‘biographical links’ to ‘The Blue Pills’
28 See RLS to FS, Letters, vol. 2, p.312
29 Ibid., p.315
30 Ibid.
31 26 February 1900, quoted in ibid., p.320 n2
32 Ibid., p.328
33 Letters, vol. 3, p.6
34 Ibid., pp.2–3
35 Vailima, vol. 2, pp.279–80
36 Ibid., p.255
37 Scribner’s Magazine, May 1888, quoted in Balfour, vol. 1, pp.196–7
38 Vailima, vol. 2, pp.283–4
39 Vailima, vol. 3, pp.498–9
40 ‘Across the Plains’, Vailima, vol. 2, P.372
41 Letters, vol. 3, p.10
42 Ibid.
43 Vailima, vol. 2, pp.364–5
44 Ibid., p.350
45 Ibid., p.283
46 Ibid., p.387
47 Ibid., p.380
48 ‘The Old Pacific Capital’, ibid., p.413
49 Portrait, pp.16–17
50 Elsie Noble Caldwell, Last Witness for Robert Louis Stevenson (Norman, Oklahoma, 1960), p.10
51 Letters, vol. 3, p.13
52 FS to Timothy Rearden, n.d., MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 54
53 FS to Timothy Rearden, Davos, n.d., MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 58
54 Letters, vol. 3, p.12
55 Ibid., p.16
56 Ibid.
57 Ibid., pp.13–14
58 Ibid., p.13
59 Collected Poems, p.88
60 Letters, vol. 3, p.16
61 Elsie Noble Caldwell, Last Witness for Robert Louis Stevenson (Norman, Oklahoma, 1960), p.10
62 James D. Hart (ed.), From Scotland to Silverado (Cambridge, Mass., 1966), pp.172–8
63 Ibid.
64 Ibid.
65 Letters, vol. 3, p.5
66 Ibid., p.41
67 Ibid., p.12
68 Ibid., pp.23–4
69 SC to CB, ibid., p.38
70 Ibid., p.41
71 Ibid., p.27
72 See Edward Berwick’s ‘Reminiscences of Robert Louis Stevenson’, MS Bancroft, C-H 107
73 See Roy Nickerson, Robert Louis Stevenson in California: A Remarkable Courtship (San Francisco, 1982), pp.57–8
74 WEH to SC, Letters, vol. 3, p.41
75 Ibid., p.38
76 Ibid.
77 Ibid., p.21
78 ‘Simoneau’s at Monterey’, James D. Hart (ed.), From Scotland to Silverado (Cambridge, Mass., 1966)
79 Letters, vol. 3, pp.41, 42
80 See Furnas, Appendix, ‘Controversy’, p.399. See also RLS to WEH, Letters, vol. 3, p.55, and Mehew’s footnote
81 ‘The Old Pacific Capital’, Vailima, vol. 2, pp.403–4
82 George R. Stewart Jr, ‘Glimpses of Stevenson’, NLS Balfour, 9897, ff176–87
83 ‘The Old Pacific Capital’, Vailima, vol. 2, p.410
84 Letters, vol. 3, p.45
85 Ibid., p.46
86 See the letter from Ferrier to his sister Elizabeth (‘Coggie’), 1 June 1880, quoted in ibid., p.74
87 Ibid., p.44
88 Ibid., p.60
89 Ibid., p.61
90 ‘San Francisco’, James D. Hart (ed.), From Scotland to Silverado (Cambridge, Mass., 1966)
91 Ibid.
92 ‘Dora Williams: reminiscence of RLS for the Century Club of San Francisco in aid of the Robert Louis Stevenson memorial’ (n.d.), MS Bancroft
93 Letters, vol. 3, p.42
94 Ibid., p.43
95 SC, quoting to WEH part of a letter from FS; see ibid., p.71
96 Ibid.
97 Letters, vol. 1, p.502
98 Letters, vol. 3, p.76
99 RLS to P.G. Hammerton, July 1881, ibid., p.203
7 : THE PROFESSIONAL SICKIST
1 Letters, vol. 3, p.83
2 The Silverado Squatters, Vailima, vol. 2, p.489
3 Ibid., p.565
4 Letters, vol. 3, p.86
5 Ibid., p.87
6 Field, p. 126
7 Lucas, pp.127–8
8 Quoted in Margaret Mackay, The Violent Friend (London, 1969), p.119
9 Letters, vol. 8, p.45
10 Letters, vol. 3, p.104n
11 Ibid., p.105
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid., p.96
15 The Silverado Squatters, Vailima, vol. 2, pp.471–2
16 J. Weber, Davos (Zürich and London, c.1880), p.28
17 Ibid., p.27
18 Letters, vol. 3, p.111 n2, and FSTo MIS, 13 October 1880,mS Silverado
19 Portrait, p.25
20 WEH to CB, 18 May 1881, Letters, vol. 3, p.182
21 Ibid., p.184
22 Ibid., p.118
23 Ibid., p.120
24 Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor (London, 1991), p.12
25 W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934), pp.81–2
26 J. Weber, Davos (Zürich and London, c.1880), p.73
27 ‘On Some Ghastly Companions at a Spa’, Collected Poems, p.327
28 Letters, vol. 3, p.126
29 ‘Davos in Winter’, Vailima, vol. 24, p.467
30 Letters, vol. 3, p.123
31 Harold Vailings, quoted in W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934), p.72
32 Vailima, vol. 12, pp.126–7
33 John Addington Symonds to H.F. Brown, 17 November 1880, Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters, The Letters of J.A. Symonds (Detroit, 1967–69), vol. 2, p.659
34 Ibid., p.664
35 Phyllis Grosskurth(ed.), The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds (London, 1984), p.260
36 Letters, vol. 3, p.162
37 W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934). p.245
38 Walt Whitman to J.A. Symonds, 19 August 1890
39 All quotations in Phyllis Grosskurth (ed.), The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds (London, 1984), Appendix 1, p.287
40 Ibid., p.188
41 W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934), p.50
42 Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (London, 2003), p.144
43 Hammerton, p.77
44 Andrew Lang, Adventures Among Books (London, 1903), p.51
45 H.J. Moors, With Stevenson in Samoa (London, 1911), p.2
46 Horatio Brown to W.G. Lockett, quoted in W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934), p.245
47 Phyllis Grosskurth (ed.), The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds (London, 1984), p.187
48 Quoted in Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (London, 2003), p.128
49 Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters, The Letters of J.A. Symonds (Detroit, 1967–69), vol. 3, p.120
50 Letters, vol. 3, p.313
51 Ibid., p.131
52 FS to Dora Williams, December 1880, MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3834
53 Letters, vol. 3, p.153
54 Ibid., p.151
55 Ibid., p.161
56 Ibid., pp.161–2
57 Collected Poems, p.93
58 MS Yale, B5980. It was published as a separate poem by the Boston Bibliophile Society and reprinted in later collections, including Janet Adam Smith’s Collected Poems, though she admits in her notes (p. 526) that she had not consulted the manuscript
59 Letters, vol. 3, p.161
60 Ibid., p.164
61 Ibid., pp.183–4
62 Vailima, vol. 11, p.171
63 Ibid., p.30
64 NLS Balfour, 9895, f76
65 Letters, vol. 3, pp.200–1
66 Ibid., p.197
67 Portrait, pp. 31, 32
68 Letters, vol. 3, p.186
69 Ibid., p.222
70 Quoted in Ann Thwaite, Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape (Oxford, 1985), p.217
71 Ibid.
72 Letters, vol. 3, p.224
73 Ibid., pp.224–5
74 FS to Dora Williams, September 1881, MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3834
75 ‘My First Book’, Vailima, vol. 5, p.xxvi
76 Ibid., p.xxiv
77 Treasure Island, Chapter 27, Vailima, vol. 5, p.239
78 Ibid., Chapter 8, p.75
79 Ibid.
80 Maixner, p.235
81 Vailima, vol. 5, p.xxviii
8 : UXORIOUS BILLY
1 Letters, vol. 3, p.242
2 Portrait, p.37
3 Evan Charteris (ed.), The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London, 1931), pp.284–5
4 Letters, vol. 3, p.329
5 WEH to CB, 15 April 1882, quoted in ibid., p.317 nI
6 Ibid., pp.263–4
7 Ibid., p.325
8 Vailima, vol. 12, p.144
9 Letters, vol. 3, p.271
10 W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934), p.102
11 Ibid., p.103
12 Vailima, vol. 3, p.470
13 Letters, vol. 3, p.322
14 Letters, vol. 4, p.2
15 Ibid., p.38
16 Damian Atkinson (ed.), The Selected Letters of W.E. Henley (Aldershot, 2000), pp.112–13
17 Ibid.
18 Letters, vol. 4, p.59
19 Ibid., p. 58
20 Ibid., p.53n
21 Ibid., p.55
22 Ibid., p.46
23 Ibid., p.55
24 Ibid., p.76
25 Ibid., pp.84–5
26 ‘From a Railway Carriage’, Collected Poems, p.44
27 Collected Poems, p.32
28 Letters, vol. 4, p. 195
29 Ibid., p. 106
30 Ibid., p.97
31 Ibid., p. 162
32 Ibid., p. 163
33 Vailima, vol. 5, p.xix
34 Ibid., p.xx
35 Letters, vol. 4, p.115
36 Ibid., p.194
37 Ibid., p.115
38 Vailima, vol. 5, p.496
39 Ibid., p.562
40 Ibid., pp.536–7
41 Ibid., p.525
42 Ibid., p.430
43 Ibid., p.458
44 Ibid., p.325
45 Ibid., p.411
46 Ibid., p.325
47 Letters, vol. 4, p.212
48 Evan Charteris (ed.), The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London, 1931), pp.180–1
49 Maixner, p. 197
50 Letters, vol. 4, p.246
51 Swearingen, p.66
52 Letters, vol. 4, pp.119–20
53 Ibid., p.228
54 21 May 1883, ibid., p.54
55 n.d., marked ‘late spring 1884, Hyères’ in another hand. MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3852 (see 3834). The conjectural dating of this manuscript letter is probably a bit late, as the next letter – also from Hyères – announces the child’s birth, and the Stevensons were only there between February 1883 and June 1884
56 Hyères, n.d., ‘spring 1884’, MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3852 (see 3834)
57 Letters, vol. 3, p.153n
58 Collected Poems, p.329
59 MS Yale, B6257
60 Ibid.
61 Letters, vol. 4, p.87
62 Ibid., p.154
63 Ibid., p.162
64 Ibid., p.157
65 Ibid., p.159
66 Ibid., p.158
67 Ibid., p.166
68 Mrs M.L. Ferrier to RLS, MS Yale, 4469
69 Letters, vol. 4, p.183
70 Ibid., p.238
71 Ibid., p.241
72 Ibid., p.237
73 Ibid., p.234
74 Ibid., p.53n
75 Ibid., p.240
76 Ibid., p.249
77 Ibid., pp.249–50
78 MS Yale, Stevenson notebook 59; 6536, 6504
79 Letters, vol. 4, pp.293–4
80 Ibid., p.309
81 Ibid., p.102
1 Lucas, p.158
2 Letters, vol. 5, p.80
3 Letters, vol. 7, p.280
4 Letters, vol. 5, p.27
5 Ibid., p.4
6 Ibid., p.23
7 Ibid., p.49 n8
8 Vailima, vol. 6, pp.267–8
9 Letters, vol. 5, p.4 n3
10 H. Pearson, Beerbohm Tree (London, 1956), pp.48–9
11 Vailima, vol. 6, p.181
12 Letters, vol. 5, p.101
13 Ibid., p.20 n2
14 Arthur Wing Pinero, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Dramatist (New York, 1914), p.30
15 Ibid., p.63
16 Portrait, p.57
17 Letters, vol. 5, p.4 n3
18 Ibid.
19 Vailima, vol. 7, p.29
20 Ibid., pp.30–1
21 Ibid., p.209
22 Letters, vol. 5, p.81
23 Maixner, p.221
24 Letters, vol. 4, p.245
25 FS to MIS, 29 July 1885, MS Silverado
26 Letters, vol. 5, p.123
27 William Archer, quoted in Hammerton, p.76
28 FS to GB, 5 January 1901, NLS Balfour, 9895, f130
29 FS to MIS, 8 October 1885, MS Silverado
30 Letters, vol. 5, p.123
31 Leon Edel, The Life of Henry James (London, 1953–72), vol. 3, p.87
32 Letters, vol. 5, p.137
33 John Singer Sargent to RLS, ?January 1886, MS Yale, 5427
34 Ibid.
35 HJ to T.S. Perry, 14 September 1879, Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James, Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1974–84), vol. 2, p.225
36 Letters, vol. 5, p.9
37 Vailima, vol. 12, p.212
38 Ibid., p.213
39 Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James, Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1974–84), vol. 3, p.57
40 Letters, vol. 5, p.42
41 Ibid., p.89
42 Quoted in Leon Edel, The Life of Henry James (London, 1953–72), vol.3, p.70
43 FS to MIS, April/May 1885, MS Silverado
44 Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James, Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1974–84), vol. 3, p.495
45 Frank McLynn, Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography (London, 1993), P.246
46 Leon Edel (ed.), The Diary of Alice James (New York, 1964), p.93
47 Letters, vol. 5, p.196
48 Ibid., p.340
49 Vailima, vol. 11, p.134
50 Ibid.
51 Ibid., p.145
52 Ibid., p.146
53 Ibid., p.150
54 Ibid., p.155
55 Letters, vol. 5, p.151 n5
56 Ibid., p.151
57 Ibid., p.221
58 Fyodor Dostoievsky, Crime and Punishment (trans. David McDuff), p. 114
59 Vailima, vol. 11, pp.133–4
60 G.K. Chesterton, Robert Louis Stevenson (London, 1927)
61 Hammerton, p.77
62 Letters, vol. 5, p.121
63 Adelaide Boodle, RLS and his Sine Qua Non (London, 1926), p.42
64 Ibid., p.11
65 Letters, vol. 5, p.339
10 : THE DREAMER
1 Letters, vol. 5, p.126
2 Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate (eds), The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy (Oxford, 1978–88), pp.146–7
3 MS Yale, B3782
4 Hammerton, p.318
5 NLS, MS9895, 157v–158v
6 Portrait, p.63
7 Ibid., p.64
8 Ibid., pp.64, 65
9 Ibid., pp.66–7
10 Letters, vol. 5, p.216
11 Hammerton, pp.84–5
12 Vailima, vol. 12, p.249
13 Ibid., p.238
14 Ibid., pp.246–7
15 Ibid.
16 Tusitala, vol. 5, p.xvi
17 Maixner, p.200
18 Vailima, vol. 7, p.426
19 Ibid., pp.429–30
20 Ibid., p.432
21 Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters, The Letters of J.A. Symonds (Detroit, 1967–69), vol. 3, pp.120–1
22 C.C. Abbott (ed.), Letters of G.M. Hopkins to Robert Bridges (Oxford, 1955), p.236
23 Elaine Showalter, Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (New York, 1990; London, 1991), pp.107, 110
24 Wayne Koestenbaum, Double Talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration (New York and London, 1989), p.147
25 Karl Miller, Doubles: Studies in Literary History (Oxford, 1985), p.216
26 Robert Mighall (ed.), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (London, 2002), p.160
27 Ibid., p.155
28 Letters, vol. 6, p.56
29 Vailima, vol. 7, p.366
30 Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions, ed. Eliot Weinberger (London, 1999), p.260
31 Daniel Balderston, ‘Borges’s Frame of Reference: The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson’ (Princeton University PhD thesis, 1981), p.332
32 MS Yale, B3828
33 Balfour, vol. 2, pp.17–18
34 In Robert Louis Stevenson and Romantic Tradition (Princeton, 1966)
35 Letters, vol. 5, p.130
36 Vailima, vol. 12, p.355
37 Letters, vol. 5, p.404
38 Wayne Koestenbaum, Double Talk (New York and London, 1989), p.145
39 Letters, vol. 5, p.182
40 See facsimile in Barry Menikoff’s edition of Kidnapped (San Marino, Cal., 1999)
41 Ibid., p.216
42 Ibid., pp.46, 64
43 Collected Poems, pp.71–2
44 Letters, vol. 6, p.48
45 Letters, vol. 5, p.236
46 Ibid., p.246
47 MS Yale, vault Stevenson, box 2, vol 4, folder D
48 Letters, vol. 5, p.138
49 Ibid., p.390
50 Portrait, p.70
51 Ibid., pp.70, 68
52 MS Yale, vault Stevenson, box 8, folder 120
53 Collected Poems, p.282. The published poem represents the last six lines of a much longer, unpublished work
54 Flora Masson, Victorians All (Edinburgh, 1931), p.107
55 Letters, vol. 5, p.418
56 FS to MIS, 23 June 1887, MS Silverado, partly published in Letters, vol. 5, pp.428–9
57 Letters, vol. 5, p.445
58 Ibid., p.443
11 : BELOW ZERO
1 Tusitala, vol. 33, p.141
2 Letters, vol. 6, p.5
3 SC to Edmund Gosse, 17 August 1887, BL Ashley 5057
4 From Saranac, p.4
5 Ibid.
6 Letters, vol. 6, p.6
7 From Saranac, p.6
8 Letters, vol. 6, p.17
9 Portrait, p.77
10 W.H. Low, A Chronicle of Friendships 1873–1900 (London, 1908), p.372
11 Hammerton, p.85
12 MS Bancroft, Edgar M. Kahn, ‘Some Aspects of Robert Louis Stevenson’ (1955), p.4
13 S.S. McClure, My Autobiography (London, 1914), p.188
14 Letters, vol. 6, p.103
15 Ibid., p.18
16 Baxter Letters, p.178
17 Elsie Noble Caldwell, Last Witness for Robert Louis Stevenson (Norman, Oklahoma, 1960), p.12
18 Alan E. Guttmacher and J.R. Callahan, ‘Did Robert Louis Stevenson Have Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia?’, American Journal of Medical Genetics, 91 (2000)
19 MIS, unpublished diary, 30 January 1868, MS Yale, B 7304
20 Edward L. Trudeau, Autobiography (Philadelphia, 1916)
21 Portrait, p.74
22 Ibid., p.75
23 Vailima, vol. 14, pp.15–16
24 Ibid., pp.360–1
25 Letters, vol. 6, p.277
26 It is printed as a footnote in ibid., p.99
27 S.S. McClure, My Autobiography (London, 1914), pp.193–4
28 Letters, vol. 6, p.129 n1
29 Ibid., p.172
30 Ibid.
31 Baxter Letters, p.202
32 Letters, vol. 6, p.130
33 Ibid., pp. 132–4
34 Ibid., p.147
35 Ibid., p.136
36 Ibid., p.169
37 Ibid., p.168
38 Published in ibid., pp.163–5
39 Ibid., pp.164–5
40 Ibid.; p.182
41 Ibid., p.167
42 Ibid., p.176
43 Ibid., p.177
44 RLS to Will Low, April 1887, Letters, vol. 5, p.394
45 From Saranac, p.26
46 Letters, vol. 6, p.38
47 Ibid., p.65
48 Portrait, p.80
49 S.S. McClure, My Autobiography (London, 1914), p188
50 FS to RLS, San Francisco, 1888, MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3744
12 : ONA
1 Arthur Johnstone, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific (London, 1905), p.18
2 From Saranac, p. 53
3 Ibid., pp.67–8
4 Letters, vol. 2, p.145
5 Justin Kaplan, Mr Clemens and Mark Twain (London, 1967), p.388
6 Letters, vol. 6, p.206 n2
7 From Saranac, p.61
8 Letters, vol. 6, p.276
9 Arthur Johnstone, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific (London, 1905), p.23
10 Ibid., p.19
11 Vailima, vol. 16, p.15
12 Ibid., p.16
13 Ibid., p.19
14 From Saranac, p.76
15 Vailima, vol. 16, p.19
16 Ibid., p.25
17 Ibid., p.20
18 From Saranac, p.81
19 Ibid., p.83
20 Ibid., p.154
21 Ibid., p.115
22 Vailima, vol. 16, p.62
23 Ibid., p.44
24 Ibid., p.184
25 Ibid., p.26
26 11 January 1892, quoted in John Connell, W.E. Henley (London, 1949), pp.234–5
27 The Works of W.E. Henley (London, 1908), vol. 1, pp.181–2
28 Ibid., p.229
29 FS to SC, 4 December 1888, quoted in Letters, vol. 6, p.229
30 From Saranac, 6 November
31 Letters, vol. 6, p.221
32 Arthur Johnstone, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific (London, 1905), p.46
33 Ibid.
34 Letters, vol. 6, p.243
35 Ibid., p.293
36 Ibid., pp.285–6
37 Ibid., p.296
38 Ibid., p.265n
39 Field, p.231
40 Letters, vol. 6, p.249
41 ICR, p.212
42 Letters, vol. 6, p.311
43 ICR, p.222
44 Letters, vol. 6, p.311
45 Ibid., pp.334–5
46 Vailima, vol. 16, p.270
47 Ibid., pp.275–6
48 Ibid., p.312
49 Ibid., pp.279–80
50 Ibid.
51 Ibid., p.345
52 Ibid., p.347
53 Letters, vol. 6, p.303
54 Ibid.
55 Vailima, vol. 16, p.359
56 Ibid., p.368
57 Letters, vol. 6, p.329
58 Ibid.
59 Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters, The Letters of J.A. Symonds (Detroit, 1967–69), vol. 3, p.410
60 See Maixner, p.354
61 Ibid., p.360
62 Ibid., p.335
63 Letters, vol. 6, p.330
64 Vailima, vol. 17, pp.597–8
65 Ibid.
66 Ibid., pp.170–1
67 Balfour, vol. 2, pp.33–4
68 Vailima, vol. 17, p.297
69 Ibid., p.555
70 Ibid., pp.402–3
71 Ibid., p.405
72 Portrait, p. 112
13 : TUSI TALA
1 W.E. Clarke, Reminiscences of Robert Louis Stevenson (London Missionary Society pamphlet, n.d.)
2 ICR, p.224
3 See Mehew’s notes on both companies in Letters, vol. 6, pp. 251 n3 and 346 n4
4 Ibid., p.251
5 Ibid., p.381
6 J.W. Davidson, Samoa mo Samoa: The Emergence of the Independent State of Western Samoa (Melbourne, 1967), p.96
7 H.J. Moors, With Stevenson in Samoa (London, 1911), p.2
8 Letters, vol. 6, p.381
9 Colvin, p.145
10 Evan Charteris (ed.), The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London, 1931), pp.232–3
11 Colvin, p.149
12 Letters, vol. 6, p. 373
13 Ibid.
14 Vailima, vol. 15, pp.481–2
15 Ibid., p.488
16 Field, p.243
17 San Francisco Examiner, 17 May 1890, quoted in Letters, vol. 6, p.420 n3
18 Reprinted in H.W. Kent, Dr Hyde and Mr Stevenson (Rutland, Vt, 1973), Appendix E
19 Letters, vol. 6, p.376
20 Ibid., p.409
21 Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson, The Cruise of the Janet Nichol (London, 1915), p.2
22 Letters, vol. 6, p.388
23 Ibid., p.403
24 Ibid., p. 389
25 Ibid., p.398
26 Letters, vol. 7, p.80
27 Ibid., p.15
28 Ibid., p.24
29 Ibid., p.22
30 ICR, p.265
31 Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson, Our Samoan Adventure, ed. Charles Neider (London, 1956), p.61
32 J.C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels et al. (eds), The Letters of Henry Adams (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1982–88), vol. 3, pp.296–7
33 Ibid., pp.851–2
34 Letters, vol. 7, p.27
35 Ibid., p.26
36 Collected Poems, p. 195
37 Letters, vol. 7, pp.18, 20
38 Ibid., p.20
39 Ibid., p.28
40 Ibid., pp.93–4
41 The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis, pp.789–90
42 Letters, vol. 7, p.24
43 Ibid., p.93
44 Ibid., p.53
45 Ibid., p.60
46 See WH to CB, 17 September 1891, Baxter Letters, p.285
47 Ibid.
48 Letters, vol. 7, p.88
49 Maixner, p.372
50 Gosse to G.A. Armour, 31 January 1891, Evan Charteris (ed.), The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London, 1931), p.225
51 Letters, vol. 7, p.115
52 S.S. McClure to RLS, early 1891, quoted in Swearingen, p.142
53 Letters, vol. 7, p. 102
54 H.J. Moors, With Stevenson in Samoa (London, 1911), p.44
55 Letters, vol. 8, p.155
56 Letters, vol. 7, p.161
57 Barry Menikoff, Robert Louis Stevenson and ‘The Beach of Falesá’: A Study in Victorian Publishing (Edinburgh, 1984), p.119
58 Ibid., p. 123
59 Ibid., p.124
60 Clement Shorter, Letters to an Editor (1914), p. iv; quoted in Swearingen, p.154
61 Letters, vol. 7, p.231
62 Ibid., pp.284, 311
63 Austin Strong to GB, 29 June 1925, NLS Balfour, 9896
64 Field, p.253
65 Hammerton, p.110
66 Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson, Our Samoan Adventure, ed. Charles Neider (London, 1956), p.100
67 Field, p.256
68 CB to RLS, 17 September 1891, quoted in Baxter Letters, p.284 n8
69 Letters, vol. 7, p.246
70 Ibid., p.253
71 Ibid., p.198
72 Ibid., p.202
73 H.J. Moors, With Stevenson in Samoa (London, 1911), p.115
74 George L. McKay, Some Notes on Robert Louis Stevenson, his Finances and his Agents and his Publishers (New Haven, 1958), p.41
75 Austin Strong to GB, 29 June 1925, NLS Balfour, 9896
14 : THE TAME CELEBRITY
1 Collected Poems, p.199
2 The Works of W.E. Henley (London, 1908), vol. 1, p.229
3 Evan Charteris (ed.), The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London, 1931), p.232
4 Hammerton, p.112
5 Ibid., p.101
6 Letters, vol. 7, p.343
7 Quoted in Adam Nicolson, The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862–1939 (London, 2001), p.25
8 See Frederick R. Karl, Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives (New York, 1979), p.322
9 Letters, vol. 7, pp.93, 40
10 Letters, vol. 8, p.40
11 Letters, vol. 7, p.325
12 Ibid., p.295
13 Ibid., p.345
14 Ibid., p.388
15 Letters, vol. 8, pp.44–5
16 Ibid., p.45 n5
17 Catriona, Vailima, vol. 10, p.222
18 Ibid., p.202
19 Letters, vol. 8, p.193
20 Catriona, Chapter XIV, Vailima, vol. 10, p.222
21 Letters, vol. 8, p.38
22 Letters, vol. 7, p.284
23 Ibid., pp.359–60
24 Ibid., p.365
25 Ibid., p.210
26 Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson, Our Samoan Adventure, ed. Charles Neider (London, 1956), pp.185–6
27 Letters, vol. 7, p.338n
28 Ibid., p.312
29 Ibid., p.382
30 Ibid., pp.195–6
31 SC to RLS, 21 March 1894, quoted in Letters, vol. 8, p.279n
32 Ibid., pp.281–2
33 Colvin, pp.148–9
34 Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (eds), The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (London, 2000), p.789
35 Graham Greene, ‘From Feathers to Iron’, Collected Essays (London, 1999), p.63
36 Letters, vol. 8, p.68
37 Ibid.
38 Ibid., p.88
39 To S.R. Crockett, ibid., p.77
40 Ibid., pp.68, 70
41 Ibid., and Maixner, p.450
42 Vailima, vol. 18, p.150
43 Vailima, vol. 25, pp.183–7
44 MS Yale, B3 809
45 Letters, vol. 8, p.40
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid., p.61
48 Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson, Our Samoan Adventure, ed. Charles Neider (London, 1956), p.219
49 Ibid., pp.235–6. I have adjusted the punctuation of the printed version as indicated, as it does not make sense otherwise
50 Letters, vol. 8, p.246
51 Ibid., p.217
52 Ibid., p.340
53 Ibid., p.105
54 Ibid., p.44
55 Ibid., p.356 n2
56 For a full account of the genesis, production, reception and significance of the Edinburgh Edition, see Andrew Nash, ‘The Dead Should be Protected from their Own Carelessness’, The Culture of Collected Editions (Basingstoke, 2003), pp.111–27
57 Collected Poems, p.300
58 Maixner, p.468
59 Ibid., p.465
60 Letters, vol. 8, p.371
61 Vailima, vol. 18, p.244
62 Ibid., pp.376–7
63 Maixner, p.466
64 Ibid., p.462
65 Letters, vol. 8, p.408
66 Ibid., p.402
67 Ibid., p.402 n2. Austin only told Graham Balfour this story in 1910
68 Ibid.
69 13 January 1895, Margaret Isabella Stevenson, Letters from Samoa 1891–95 (London, 1906), p.327
70 Belle Strong’s account, Letters, vol. 8, p.403
71 Colvin, pp.147–8
POSTSCRIPTS
1 Lloyd Osbourne, 20 Letters to Isobel Field, July – December 1940, MS Bancroft
2 Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James, Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1974–84), vol. 4, p.213
3 Maixner, pp.494–500
4 HJ to GB, 25 November 1901, NLS Balfour, 9895, f5203
5 Ford Madox Ford, Memories and Impressions (Harmondsworth, 1971), p.182
6 Frederick R. Karl, Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives (New York, 1979), p.438
7 Frederick R. Karl et al. (eds), Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge, 1983–2002), vol. 2, p.371
8 HJ to GB, 3 July 1902, NLS Balfour, 9895, f255
9 Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James, Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1974–84), vol. 4, p.241