The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25)

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25)

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

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THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

SWANSTON EDITION

VOLUME XXIV

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. ............

TEMBINOKA, KING OF APEMAMA, WITH THE HEIR-APPARENT

THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS

STEVENSON

VOLUME TWENTY FOUR

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 VII—X

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CONTENTS

VII. THE RIVIERA AGAIN—MARSEILLES AND HYÈRES

NTRO DUCTO RY L ETTERS — To the Editor of the New York Tribune To R. A. M. Stevenson To Thomas Stevenson To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Trevor Haddon [Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to John Addington Symonds] To Charles Baxter To Sidney Colvin To Alison Cunningham To W. E. Henley To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Thomas Stevenson To W. E. Henley To Mrs. Sitwell To Edmund Gosse To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To the Same To Edmund Gosse To the Same To W. E. Henley To the Same To Sidney Colvin To W. E. Henley To the Same To Jules Simoneau To W. E. Henley To Trevor Haddon To Jules Simoneau To Alison Cunningham To Edmund Gosse To Miss Ferrier To W. E. Henley To Edmund Gosse To Miss Ferrier To W. E. Henley To Sidney Colvin

PAG E 3 7 8 9 9 10 11 14 15 16 17 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 36 36 37 39 41 44 45 46 47 50 52 54 55

To W. E. Henley To W. H. Low To R. A. M. Stevenson To Thomas Stevenson To W. H. Low To W. E. Henley To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Sidney Colvin To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Milne To Miss Ferrier To W. E. Henley To W. H. Low To Thomas Stevenson To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To W. E. Henley To Sidney Colvin To Mr. Dick To Cosmo Monkhouse To Edmund Gosse To Miss Ferrier To W. H. Low To Thomas Stevenson To W. E. Henley To Trevor Haddon To Cosmo Monkhouse To W. E. Henley To Edmund Gosse To Sidney Colvin To the Same To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Sidney Colvin To W. E. Henley

VIII. LIFE AT BOURNEMOUTH

I NTRO DUCTO RY L ETTERS — To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Andrew Chatto To W. E. Henley To the Rev. Professor Lewis Campbell To W. E. Henley

57 57 59 62 63 65 66 67 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 78 79 81 83 85 87 88 89 90 91 93 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102

104 110 110 111 113 115

To W. H. Low To Sir Walter Simpson To Thomas Stevenson To the Same To W. E. Henley To Charles Baxter To Miss Ferrier To Charles Baxter To W. E. Henley To Edmund Gosse To Austin Dobson To W. E. Henley To Henry James To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To W. E. Henley To Miss Ferrier To W. E. Henley To H. A. Jones To Sidney Colvin To Thomas Stevenson To Sidney Golvin To the Same To J. A. Symonds To Edmund Gosse To W. H. Low To P. G. Hamerton To W. E. Henley To the Same To William Archer To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin To the Same To C. Howard Carrington To Katharine de Mattos To W. H. Low To W. E. Henley To William Archer To Thomas Stevenson To Henry James To William Archer To the Same To W. H. Low To Mrs. de Mattos To Alison Cunningham To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To W. H. Low

115 117 118 119 120 121 121 122 123 125 126 127 127 130 131 132 133 133 134 135 136 137 138 140 142 143 146 147 147 149 150 151 152 152 153 155 156 159 160 161 163 166 167 167 168 169

To Edmund Gosse To James Payn To W. H. Low To Charles J. Guthrie To Thomas Stevenson To C. W. Stoddard To Edmund Gosse To J. A. Symonds To F. W. H. Myers To W. H. Low To Sidney Colvin To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin To Sidney Colvin To Thomas Stevenson To Miss Monroe To Sidney Colvin To Miss Monroe To Alison Cunningham To R. A. M. Stevenson To the Same To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Charles Baxter To Alison Cunningham To Thomas Stevenson To Alison Cunningham To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To T. Watts-Dunton To Alison Cunningham To Frederick Locker-Lampson To the Same To the Same To the Same To Auguste Rodin To Sidney Colvin To Lady Taylor To the Same To Henry James To Frederick Locker-Lampson To Henry James To Auguste Rodin To W. H. Low To Sidney Colvin To Alison Cunningham To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin To the Same To Miss Rawlinson

173 176 177 178 179 180 181 183 184 185 186 187 189 190 191 192 193 196 196 198 199 200 200 201 202 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 213 214 215 215 216 217 219 220 221 225 227

To Sidney Colvin To Sir Walter Simpson To W. E. Henley To W. H. Low To Miss Adelaide Boodle To Messrs. Chatto and Windus

IX. THE UNITED STATES AGAIN

WINTER IN THE ADIRONDACKS

I NTRO DUCTO RY L ETTERS — To Sidney Colvin To the Same To Henry James To Sidney Colvin To W. E. Henley To R. A. M. Stevenson To Sir Walter Simpson To Edmund Gosse To W. H. Low To Charles Fairchild To William Archer To W. E. Henley To Henry James To Charles Baxter To Charles Scribner To E. L. Burlingame To the Same To John Addington Symonds To W. E. Henley To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin To Miss Adelaide Boodle To Charles Baxter To Miss Munroe To Henry James To Sidney Colvin To the Same To Miss Adelaide Boodle To Charles Baxter To E. L. Burlingame To William Archer To the Same To the Same

228 229 229 230 231 231

233 235 236 237 238 239 240 242 244 245 246 247 248 249 251 252 253 254 254 257 258 259 260 261 262 264 265 267 268 268 270 272 273

To E. L. Burlingame To the Same To Sidney Colvin To the Rev. Dr. Charteris To Edmund Gosse To Henry James To the Rev. Dr. Charteris To S. R. Crockett To Miss Ferrier To Sidney Colvin To Miss Adelaide Boodle To Sidney Colvin To Charles Baxter To Lady Taylor To Homer St. Gaudens To Henry James

X. PACIFIC VOYAGES

YACHTCASCO—SCHOONEREQUATOR—S.S.JANET NICOLL

I NTRO DUCTO RY L ETTERS — To Sidney Colvin To Charles Baxter To Sidney Colvin To Charles Baxter To Miss Adelaide Boodle To Sidney Colvin To William and Thomas Archer To Charles Baxter To the Same To John Addington Symonds To Thomas Archer [Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to Sidney Colvin] To Sidney Colvin To E. L. Burlingame To Charles Baxter To R. A. M. Stevenson To Marcel Schwob To Charles Baxter To Sidney Colvin [Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to Mrs. Sitwell] To Henry James To Sidney Colvin

273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 282 283 284 285 286 286 287 288

290 293 294 295 296 297 298 300 301 303 304 305 308 316 319 322 323 327 327 329 331 334 336

To E. L. Burlingame To Miss Adelaide Boodle To Charles Baxter To the Same To W. H. Low [Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to Sidney Colvin] To Mrs. R. L. Stevenson To Sidney Colvin To James Payn To Lady Taylor To Sidney Colvin To the Same To E. L. Burlingame To Charles Baxter To Lady Taylor To Dr. Scott To Charles Baxter To E. L. Burlingame To James Payn To Henry James To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson To Charles Baxter To Sidney Colvin To E. L. Burlingame To Charles Baxter To E. L. Burlingame To Henry James To Marcel Schwob To Andrew Lang To Miss Adelaide Boodle To Mrs. Charles Fairchild

THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

1882-1890

THE LETTERS

338 339 343 344 345 347 349 353 355 357 357 362 367 369 372 374 375 377 381 382 383 384 385 387 392 394 396 397 399 401 403

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VII

THE RIVIERA AGAIN—MARSEILLES AND HYÈRES

O CTOBER 1882—A UGUST 1884

I N the two years and odd months since his return from California, Stevenson had made no solid gain of health. His winters, and especially his second winter, at Davos had seemed to do him much temporary good; but during the summers in Scotland he had lost as much as he had gained, or more. Loving the Mediterranean shores of France from of old, he now made up his mind to try them once again.

As the ways and restrictions of a settled invalid w ere repugnant to Stevenson’s character and instincts, so were the li fe and society of a regular invalid station depressing and uncongenial to him. He determined, accordingly, to avoid settling in one of these, and hoped to find a suitable climate and habitation that should be near, though not in, some centre of the active and ordinary life of man, with accessible markets, libraries, and other resources. In September 1882 he started with his cousin Mr. R. A. M. Stevenson in search of a new home, and thought firs t of trying the Languedoc coast, a region new to him. At Montpellier, he was laid up again with a bad bout of his lung troubles; and, the doctor not recommending him to stay, returned to Marseilles. Here he was rejoined by his wife, and after a few days’ exploration in the neighbourhood they lighted on what seemed exactly the domicile they wanted. This was a roomy and attractive enough house and garden called the Campagne Defli, near th e manufacturing suburb of St. Marcel, in a sheltered position in fu ll view of the shapely coastward hills. By the third week in October they were installed, and in eager hopes of pleasant days to come and a return to working health. These hopes were not realised. Week after week went on, and the hemorrhages and fits of fever and exhaustion did no t diminish. Work, except occasional verses, and a part of the story calledThe Treasure of Franchard, would not flow, and the time had to be whiled away with games of patience and other resources of the sick man. Nearly two months were thus passed; during the whole of one of them Stevenson had not been able to go beyond the garden; and by Christmas he had to face the fact that the air of the place was tainted. An epidemic of fever, due to some defect of drainage, broke out, and it became clear that this could be no home for

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