The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25)

Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

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THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

SWANSTON EDITION

VOLUME XXIII

Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale.

This is No. ............

THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

VOLUME TWENTY-THREE

LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII

For permission to use theL ETTERS in the S WANSTO N E DITIO NO F S TEVENSO N ’ S W O RKS the Publishers are indebted to the kindness of M ESSRS . M ETHUEN & C O ., L TD .

ALL RIG HTS RESERVED

THE LETTERS OF

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

EDITED BY

SIDNEY COLVIN

PARTS I—VI

CONTENTS

I NTRO DUCTO RY

I.—STUDENT DAYS AT EDINBURGH

TRAVELS AND EXCURSIONS

I NTRO DUCTO RY L ETTERS — To Thomas Stevenson To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To the Same To the Same To the Same To the Same To the Same To Mrs. Churchill Babington To Alison Cunningham To Charles Baxter To the Same To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To the Same To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Thomas Stevenson To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Charles Baxter To Charles Baxter To the Same

II.—STUDENT DAYS—continued

NEW FRIENDSHIPS—ORDERED SOUTH

I NTRO DUCTO RY L ETTERS — To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Mrs. Sitwell To the Same To the Same To the Same To the Same To the Same To the Same

PAG E

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3 13 14 15 17 19 21

30 32 33 35 36 38 39 42 44 46 49 52

54 56 57 58 61 63 66 68 71

To the Same To Sidney Colvin To the Same To Mrs. Sitwell To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Mrs. Sitwell To the Same To the Same To Charles Baxter To Mrs. Sitwell To the Same To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To the Same To the Same To Mrs. Sitwell To the Same To the Same To Sidney Colvin To the Same To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Sitwell To Thomas Stevenson To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Thomas Stevenson To Mrs. Sitwell To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To the Same To the Same To the Same To the Same To Mrs. Sitwell

III.—STUDENT DAYS—concluded

HOME AGAIN—LITERATURE AND LAW

I NTRO DUCTO RY L ETTERS — To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Sitwell To Sidney Colvin

74 76 76 77 81 83 83 86 89 91 93 94 96 97 99 101 103 104 105 106 107 108 110 111 112 113 115 116 117 118 118 120 121

123 124 125 127

To Mrs. Sitwell To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Sitwell To the Same To the Same To the Same To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Sitwell To Sidney Colvin To the Same To Mrs. Sitwell To the Same To the Same To the Same To the Same To the Same To the Same To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Sitwell To the Same To the Same To the Same To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Sitwell To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Sitwell To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Sitwell To the Same To the Same To the Same To Sidney Colvin To the Same To Mrs. Sitwell To the Same To the Same

I NTRO DUCTO RY L ETTERS —

IV.—ADVOCATE AND AUTHOR

EDINBURGH—PARIS—FONTAINEBLEAU

127 129 131 133 137 139 140 140 141 143 144 148 149 151 153 155 156 157 158 161 164 166 167 168 169 171 173 174 174 175 177 178 178 179 180 181

182

To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Mrs. Sitwell To the Same To Sidney Colvin To Charles Baxter To Sidney Colvin To the Same To Mrs. Sitwell To the Same To Mrs. de Mattos To Mrs. Sitwell To Sidney Colvin To the Same To Mrs. Sitwell To W. E. Henley To Mrs. Sitwell To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Sitwell To A. Patchett Martin To the Same To Sidney Colvin To the Same To Thomas Stevenson To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To the Same To W. E. Henley To Charles Baxter To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To W. E. Henley To Edmund Gosse To W. E. Henley To Miss Jane Balfour To Edmund Gosse To Sidney Colvin To Edmund Gosse

V.—THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT

S.S. DEVONIA—MONTEREY AND SAN FRANCISCO—MARRIAGE

I NTRO DUCTO RY

186 187 187 189 191 193 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 211 212 213 215 215 216 217 217 218 219 219 221 223 224 225 226

228

L ETTERS — To Sidney Colvin To the Same To W. E. Henley To Sidney Colvin To the Same To Edmund Gosse To W. E. Henley To the Same To Sidney Colvin To P. G. Hamerton To Edmund Gosse To Sidney Colvin To Edmund Gosse To Sidney Colvin To W. E. Henley To Sidney Colvin To the Same To W. E. Henley To the Same To Sidney Colvin To Edmund Gosse To Charles Baxter To Professor Meiklejohn To W. E. Henley To Sidney Colvin To the Same To J. W. Ferrier To Edmund Gosse To Dr. W. Bamford To Sidney Colvin To the Same To the Same To C. W. Stoddard To Sidney Colvin

VI.—ALPINE WINTERS AND HIGHLAND SUMMERS

I NTRO DUCTO RY L ETTERS — To Sidney Colvin To Charles Baxter

230 232 233 234 235 236 238 238 241 242 243 244 245 247 249 251 253 255 256 258 260 262 263 265 267 269 269 271 272 272 273 274 275 276

279 284 285

To Isobel Strong To A. G. Dew-Smith To Thomas Stevenson To Sidney Colvin To Edmund Gosse To the Same To Charles Warren Stoddard To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Sidney Colvin To Horatio F. Brown To the Same To the Same To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Edmund Gosse To Sidney Colvin To Professor Æneas Mackay To the Same To Sidney Colvin To Edmund Gosse To Charles J. Guthrie To the Same To Edmund Gosse To P. G. Hamerton To Sidney Colvin To W. E. Henley To the Same To Sidney Colvin To Dr. Alexander Japp To Mrs. Sitwell To Edmund Gosse To the Same To the Same To W. E. Henley To Dr. Alexander Japp To W. E. Henley To the Same To Thomas Stevenson To Edmund Gosse To W. E. Henley To P. G. Hamerton

286 287 290 291 292 293 294 296 297 298 300 303 303 304 305 306 308 309 309 310 311 312 312 313 314 316 317 319 320 321 323 324 325 325 326 327 328 330 331 332 333 335

To Charles Baxter To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Edmund Gosse To Sidney Colvin To Alison Cunningham To Charles Baxter To W. E. Henley To the Same To Alexander Ireland To Mrs. Gosse To Sidney Colvin To Edmund Gosse To Dr. Alexander Japp To the Same To W. E. Henley To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To R. A. M. Stevenson To Trevor Haddon To Edmund Gosse To Trevor Haddon To Edmund Gosse To W. E. Henley

INTRODUCTION

336 337 338 339 340 341 341 342 345 347 349 350 351 351 352 354 356 357 359 360 360 361

T HE electing and circumstances which have made me responsible for s editing the correspondence of Robert Louis Stevenson are the following. He was for many years my closest friend. We first met in 1873, when he was in his twenty-third year and I in my twenty-ninth, at the place and in the manner mentioned at page 54 of this volume. It was my good fortune then to be of use to him, partly by such technical hints as even the most brilliant beginner may take from an older hand, partly by rec ommending him to editors—first, if I remember right, to Mr. Hamerton and Mr. Richmond Seeley, of the Portfolio, then in succession to Mr. George Grove (Macmillan’s Magazine), Mr. Leslie Stephen (Cornhil l), and Dr. Appleton (the Academy); and somewhat, lastly, by helping to raise him in the estimation of parents who loved but for the moment failed to understand

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