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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 the Letters in the
Swanston Edition of Stevenson’s Works
the Publishers are indebted to the kindness of
Messrs. Methuen & Co., Ltd.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
THE LETTERS OF
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
EDITED BY
SIDNEY COLVIN
PARTS VII—X
CONTENTS
VII. THE RIVIERA AGAIN—MARSEILLES AND HYÈRES
PAGE Introductory 3 Letters— To the Editor of the New York Tribune 7 To R. A. M. Stevenson 8 To Thomas Stevenson 9 To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 9 To Trevor Haddon 10 [Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to John Addington Symonds] 11 To Charles Baxter 14 To Sidney Colvin 15 To Alison Cunningham 16 To W. E. Henley 17 To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 21 To Thomas Stevenson 22 To W. E. Henley 23 To Mrs. Sitwell 24 To Edmund Gosse 26 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 27 To the Same 28 To Edmund Gosse 29 To the Same 30 To W. E. Henley 31 To the Same 32 To Sidney Colvin 33 To W. E. Henley 34 To the Same 36 To Jules Simoneau 36 To W. E.
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Henley 37 To Trevor Haddon 39 To Jules Simoneau 41 To Alison Cunningham 44 To Edmund Gosse 45 To Miss Ferrier 46 To W. E. Henley 47 To Edmund Gosse 50 To Miss Ferrier 52 To W. E. Henley 54 To Sidney Colvin 55 To W. E. Henley 57 To W. H. Low 57 To R. A. M. Stevenson 59 To Thomas Stevenson 62 To W. H. Low 63 To W. E. Henley 65 To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 66 To Sidney Colvin 67 To Sidney Colvin 69 To Mrs. Milne 70 To Miss Ferrier 71 To W. E. Henley 72 To W. H. Low 73 To Thomas Stevenson 74 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 75 To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 76 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 78 To W. E. Henley 79 To Sidney Colvin 81 To Mr. Dick 83 To Cosmo Monkhouse 85 To Edmund Gosse 87 To Miss Ferrier 88 To W. H. Low 89 To Thomas Stevenson
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">90 To W. E. Henley 91 To Trevor Haddon 93 To Cosmo Monkhouse 95 To W. E. Henley 96 To Edmund Gosse 97 To Sidney Colvin 98 To the Same 99 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 100 To Sidney Colvin 101 To W. E. Henley 102
VIII. LIFE AT BOURNEMOUTH
Introductory 104 Letters— To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 110 To Andrew Chatto 110 To W. E. Henley 111 To the Rev. Professor Lewis Campbell 113 To W. E. Henley 115 To W. H. Low 115 To Sir Walter Simpson 117 To Thomas Stevenson 118 To the Same 119 To W. E. Henley 120 To Charles Baxter 121 To Miss Ferrier 121 To Charles Baxter 122 To W. E. Henley 123 To Edmund Gosse 125 To Austin Dobson 126 To W. E. Henley 127 To Henry James 127 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 130 To W. E. Henley 131 To Miss Ferrier 132 To W. E. Henley 133 To H. A. Jones 133 To Sidney Colvin
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@31809@[email protected]#page134" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">134 To Thomas Stevenson 135 To Sidney Golvin 136 To the Same 137 To J. A. Symonds 138 To Edmund Gosse 140 To W. H. Low 142 To P. G. Hamerton 143 To W. E. Henley 146 To the Same 147 To William Archer 147 To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell 149 To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin 150 To the Same 151 To C. Howard Carrington 152 To Katharine de Mattos 152 To W. H. Low 153 To W. E. Henley 155 To William Archer 156 To Thomas Stevenson 159 To Henry James 160 To William Archer 161 To the Same 163 To W. H. Low 166 To Mrs. de Mattos 167 To Alison Cunningham 167 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 168 To W. H. Low 169 To Edmund Gosse 173 To James Payn 176 To W. H. Low 177 To Charles J. Guthrie 178 To Thomas Stevenson 179 To C. W. Stoddard 180 To Edmund Gosse 181 To J. A. Symonds
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class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">183 To F. W. H. Myers 184 To W. H. Low 185 To Sidney Colvin 186 To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin 187 To Sidney Colvin 189 To Thomas Stevenson 190 To Miss Monroe 191 To Sidney Colvin 192 To Miss Monroe 193 To Alison Cunningham 196 To R. A. M. Stevenson 196 To the Same 198 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 199 To Charles Baxter 200 To Alison Cunningham 200 To Thomas Stevenson 201 To Alison Cunningham 202 To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 202 To T. Watts-Dunton 203 To Alison Cunningham 204 To Frederick Locker-Lampson 205 To the Same 206 To the Same 207 To the Same 208 To Auguste Rodin 209 To Sidney Colvin 210 To Lady Taylor 211 To the Same 213 To Henry James 214 To Frederick Locker-Lampson 215 To Henry James 215 To Auguste Rodin 216 To W. H. Low 217 To Sidney Colvin 219 To Alison Cunningham 220
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class="cl"> To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin 221 To the Same 225 To Miss Rawlinson 227 To Sidney Colvin 228 To Sir Walter Simpson 229 To W. E. Henley 229 To W. H. Low 230 To Miss Adelaide Boodle 231 To Messrs. Chatto and Windus 231
IX. THE UNITED STATES AGAIN
WINTER IN THE ADIRONDACKS
Introductory 233 Letters— To Sidney Colvin 235 To the Same 236 To Henry James 237 To Sidney Colvin 238 To W. E. Henley 239 To R. A. M. Stevenson 240 To Sir Walter Simpson 242 To Edmund Gosse 244 To W. H. Low 245 To Charles Fairchild 246 To William Archer 247 To W. E. Henley 248 To Henry James 249 To Charles Baxter 251 To Charles Scribner 252 To E. L. Burlingame 253 To the Same 254 To John Addington Symonds 254 To W. E. Henley 257 To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin 258 To Miss Adelaide Boodle 259 To Charles Baxter 260 To Miss Munroe 261 To Henry James 262 To Sidney Colvin
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class="tc2b">264 To the Same 265 To Miss Adelaide Boodle 267 To Charles Baxter 268 To E. L. Burlingame 268 To William Archer 270 To the Same 272 To the Same 273 To E. L. Burlingame 273 To the Same 274 To Sidney Colvin 275 To the Rev. Dr. Charteris 276 To Edmund Gosse 277 To Henry James 278 To the Rev. Dr. Charteris 279 To S. R. Crockett 280 To Miss Ferrier 282 To Sidney Colvin 283 To Miss Adelaide Boodle 284 To Sidney Colvin 285 To Charles Baxter 286 To Lady Taylor 286 To Homer St. Gaudens 287 To Henry James 288
X. PACIFIC VOYAGES
YACHT CASCO—SCHOONER EQUATOR—S.S. JANET NICOLL
Introductory 290 Letters— To Sidney Colvin 293 To Charles Baxter 294 To Sidney Colvin 295 To Charles Baxter 296 To Miss Adelaide Boodle 297 To Sidney Colvin 298 To William and Thomas Archer 300 To Charles Baxter 301 To the Same 303 To John Addington Symonds
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@31809@[email protected]#page304" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">304 To Thomas Archer 305 [Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to Sidney Colvin] 308 To Sidney Colvin 316 To E. L. Burlingame 319 To Charles Baxter 322 To R. A. M. Stevenson 323 To Marcel Schwob 327 To Charles Baxter 327 To Sidney Colvin 329 [Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to Mrs. Sitwell] 331 To Henry James 334 To Sidney Colvin 336 To E. L. Burlingame 338 To Miss Adelaide Boodle 339 To Charles Baxter 343 To the Same 344 To W. H. Low 345 [Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to Sidney Colvin] 347 To Mrs. R. L. Stevenson 349 To Sidney Colvin 353 To James Payn 355 To Lady Taylor 357 To Sidney Colvin 357 To the Same 362 To E. L. Burlingame 367 To Charles Baxter 369 To Lady Taylor 372 To Dr. Scott 374 To Charles Baxter 375 To E. L. Burlingame 377 To James Payn 381 To Henry James 382 To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 383 To Charles Baxter 384 To Sidney Colvin
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@31809@[email protected]#page385" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">385 To E. L. Burlingame 387 To Charles Baxter 392 To E. L. Burlingame 394 To Henry James 396 To Marcel Schwob 397 To Andrew Lang 399 To Miss Adelaide Boodle 401 To Mrs. Charles Fairchild 403