The Stevenson Circle

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Archer, William (1856-1924), journalist and critic. He was dramatic critic for Figaro, and later for the World and the Star. An admirer of Ibsen's work, he was instrumental in introduc- ing Ibsen's plays to the British public. Archer and RLS frequently corresponded, and Archer wrote a perceptive obituary, 'In Memoriam R.L.S.' (New Review, January 1895).

Balfour, Dr Lewis (1777-1860), grandfather of RLS. RLS took his middle name of Lewis (later Louis) from his grandfather. As a boy RLS delighted in visiting Colin ton Manse, the home of his grandfather from 1823 to 1860. In his essay 'The Manse', included in MP, he gives an affectionate tribute to his recol- lections of the house and of his grandfather.

Balfour, Sir Thomas Graham (1858-1929). One of RLS's many cousins, Balfour made his home at Vailima during the last two and a half years of RLS's life. His biography, published in 1901, is an extremely readable, competent and well-researched account. It suffers, however, from having been prepared so soon after Stevenson's death and is insufficiently detached from the protective influence of his widow. It remains an in- dispensable account of RLS and his circle, though inevitably some of Balfour's judgements have been superseded by later scholarship.

Barrie, Sir James Matthew (1860-1937), novelist and playright. His first novel The Little Minister (1891), was much admired by RLS. Barrie was also the author of A Window in Thrums, Margaret Ogilvy, and Sentimental Tommy. His plays include The Admirable Crichton, Peter Pan and What Every Woman Knows. After meeting briefly when students in Edinburgh, Barrie and RLS never met again, though RLS invited him to Vailima on several occasions.

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Baxter, Charles (1848-1919), lawyer. Fellow students at Edinburgh University, their friendship and correspondence continued throughout RLS's life. For some years Baxter took over the responsibility of RLS's business affairs and it was he, together with Colvin, who arranged the Edinburgh edition of the collected works. RLS dedicated Kidnapped to Baxter.

Boodle, Adelaide. Miss Boodle was a friend of the Stevenson family during their years at Bournemouth (1884-7) and recorded her impressions of the Skerryvore menage in her book R.L.S. and his Sine Qua Non (1926).

Burlingame, Edward L. (1848-1922), editor. He was the editor of Scribner's Magazine from 1886 to 1914, and from 1887 onwards was continually in correspondence with RLS on matters connected with the publication of books and articles.

Colvin, Sir Sidney (1845-1927), critic and scholar. Slade Pro- fessor of Fine Art at Cambridge, and later Curator of Prints at the British Museum, Colvin was a lifelong friend of RLS. Fol- lowing RLS's death he did much to protect the literary reputation of his friend and edited a collected edition of RLS's letters (1899, revised and enlarged in 1911). He was also the author of Robert Louis Stevenson: His Work and Personality (1924). He married Fanny Sitwell in 1903.

Crockett, Samuel Rutherford (1860-1914), novelist. The author of The Raiders, The Lilac Sunbonnet and The Men of the Moss Hags, his work was greatly admired by RLS. A regular correspondent, he was familiar with the scenes of RLS's early life and understood his fascination with Scottish history.

Cunningham, Alison (Cummy) (1822-1913), RLS's nurse. She remained for many years a devoted friend of the Stevenson family and RLS corresponded with her until shortly before his death. Most biographers regard her as the most important single influence on RLS's early life. CGV is dedicated to her.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930), novelist. Doyle was the 84 A Robert Louis Stevenson Chronology author of a series of historical novels including The White Company and Sir Nigel but his chief fame rests on his Sherlock Holmes stories. These were much admired by RLS and led to a correspondence between them. Holmes was based upon the surgeon Dr Joseph Bell (1837-1911), a professor at Edinburgh University who was known to both Doyle and RLS. Doyle in turn admired RLS's 'The Pavilion on the Links' and discusses it in his Through the Magic Door (1907).

Ferrier, James Walter (1850-1883), boyhood friend and fellow student. RLS described Ferrier as 'the best and gentlest gentleman' he had ever known. His early death due to alcoholism grieved RLS who paid a moving tribute to his friend in 'Old Mortality' .

Gosse, Sir Edmund William (1849-1928), critic and scholar. A lifelong friend .of RLS and fellow member of the Savile Club, Gosse was the author of numerous works of literary criticism including Critical Kitcats (1896), in which he presents an intimate portrait of RLS. A frequent correspondent, Gosse was a guest of the Stevensons at Braemar during the writing of Treasure Island and was one of RLS's closest confidantes. Gosse is best remembered today for his moving portrait of his father, Father and Son (1907).

Haggard, Bazett M. British Land Commissioner in Samoa and brother of Sir Henry Rider Haggard, he was a friend of the Stevenson family and a frequent visitor at Vailima.

Haggard, Sir Henry Rider (1856-1925), novelist. The correspondence between Haggard and RLS began when the latter wrote to express his appreciation of King Solomon's Mines (1885). RLS had a keen admiration for Haggard's African romances and sent him some perceptive letters of criticism.

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928), novelist and poet. RLS visited Hardy at his home at Dorchester in August 1885, being keen to dramatise The Mayor of Casterbridge. Hardy's response, however, was lukewarm. Fanny considered Hardy 'modest, gentle The Stevenson Circle 85 and appealing' but regarded Mrs Hardy as plain and 'quite underbred'.

Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903), editor and poet. Henley was successively the editor of London, the Magazine of Art, the Scots Observer, the National Observer and the New Review. His volume of poetry Hospital Verses (1875) won him RLS's friendship. The two collaborated in a series of plays including Dea- con Brodie (1880), Admiral Guinea (1884), Beau Austin (1884) and Macaire (1885), but none of these was commercially success- ful. Henley and RLS were close friends for many years but quarrelled over Henley's accusation that a short story written by Fanny, 'The Nixie', was in fact by Katharine de Mattos. A lifelong victim of tuberculosis, he was the 'original' of Long John Silver in Treasure Island and of 'Burly' in 'Talk and Talkers'. As an editor Henley published important work by Hardy, Kipling, James and Wells in addition to RLS, and for some years acted as RLS's unpaid literary agent in dealing with London publishers.

James, Henry (1843-1916), novelist. A close friend from 1885 onwards, James was a frequent visitor to the Stevenson house- hold at Bournemouth and corresponded with RLS until the latter's death. RLS's essay' A Humble Remonstrance' (included in MP) is a riposte to James's essay 'The Art of Fiction' (1884) and defines his differing approach to the craft of fiction. RLS had a strong appreciation of James's work and friendship. James paid his own tribute in Partial Portraits (1888) and Notes on Novelists (1914).

Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming (1833-85). Professor of En- gineering at Edinburgh University from 1868 to 1885, Jenkin and his wife befriended RLS from student days onwards. Jenkin was a keen promoter of amateur theatricals and involved RLS in a number of productions. He employed RLS as his private secretary when serving as a juror at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. After Jenkin's death RLS paid his tribute to him in MFJ; Jenkin also figures as 'Cockshot' in 'Talk and Talkers'. 86 A Robert Louis Stevenson Chronology

Lang, Andrew (1844-1912), critic and poet. Lang and RLS met at Mentone in 1873 and their friendship continued throughout RLS's life. Lang prepared an introductory essay to the Swanston edition of Stevenson's works (1911).

Low, Will H. (1853-1932), American artist. Low met RLS in France in 1875 and shared in many of his visits to Paris and Fontainebleau during the ensuing years. The Epilogue of TW is dedicated to him.

Mattos, Katharine de (1851-1939). Katharine, sister of RLS's cousin Bob, and RLS were childhood friends and she became a frequent visitor at his Bournemouth home. Her unfinished short story 'The Nixie' was rewritten by Fanny who then published it under her own name. Henley regarded this as pla- giarism and the accusation led to a heated quarrel between him and RLS.

McClure, Samuel Sidney, editor. As editor of McClure's Magazine and an influential figure in the American journalistic scene McClure published much of RLS's fiction in serial form. He visited RLS at Saranac in 1887 and again in 1888, and agreed to serialise BA, illustrated by W. H. Low, in his newspaper syndicate.

Meredith, George (1828-1909), novelist and poet. Author of The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859), The Egoist (1879), Diana of the Crossways (1885) and many other novels, Meredith held RLS in high regard. The two writers met frequently at Meredith's home at Box Hill, Surrey. RLS figures as 'Gower Woodseer' in Meredith's novel The Amazing Marriage (1895).

Moors, H. J. A prominent American trader in Apia who befriended RLS and his family. The Stevensons stayed with Moors for some weeks before the building of Vailima and RLS remained on terms of close friendship with him. Moors recorded his own memoirs in With Stevenson in Samoa (1910). The Stevenson Circle 87

Osbourne, Fanny: see Stevenson, Fanny.

Osbourne, Isobel (Belle) (1858-1953), stepdaughter of RLS. The daughter of Sam and Fanny Osbourne, she married Joseph Strong and became RLS's secretary at Vailima. In her book Memories of Vailima (1903) she presents an intimate picture of Stevenson's life in Samoa.

Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd (1868-1947), stepson of RLS. The son of Sam and Fanny Osbourne, he collaborated with RLS in the writing of ET, TW and WB. His own memories of RLS are presented in An Intimate Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson (1924). TI is dedicated to him.

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917), sculptor. Introduced to Rodin by Henley in 1886, RLS became a close friend of the French sculptor. The two corresponded in French, and RLS soon appreci- ated the quality of Rodin's genius. A plaster cast of 'Le Printemps' was sent to RLS by Rodin as a gift at Vailima.

Scribner, Charles, head of the New York publishing firm. Scribner's were the first publishers to pay RLS substantial sums for his writings. Scribner asked for exclusive rights to publish all RLS's works in the United States and pay him royalties for them. To this he readily agreed, but had to extricate himself from the agreement when he realised he had signed a similar contract with McClure.

Schwob, Marcel (1867-1905), French writer and scholar. An authority on Villon and Shakespeare, Schwob wrote an influential review of RLS's work (New Review, February 1895) and was one of the first Frenchmen to acknowledge RLS as a literary artist. He translated several of Stevenson's works into French and was a frequent correspondent.

Shelley, Sir Percy and Lady. The son and daughter-in-law of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, they became close friends of RLS during the years at Bournemouth (1884-7). Sir Percy was a keen amateur photographer and took several photographs 88 A Robert Louis Stevenson Chronology of RLS and his home. MB is dedicated to the Shelleys.

Simpson, Sir Walter Grindlay (1843-98), friend of RLS from student days and companion on the journeys described in IV. Grindlay is 'Cigarette' in IV and 'Athelred' in 'Talk and Talkers'.

Sitwell, Frances (Fanny) (1839-1924). The estranged wife of the Revd Albert Sitwell, Fanny met RLS at Cockfield Rectory in the summer of 1873. RLS was deeply attracted to her and for some years was a frequent and devoted correspondent. Fanny made it clear that she did not reciprocate his love. A friend and companion of Colvin for three decades, she married Colvin in 1903 following the death of her husband.

Stephen, Sir Leslie (1832-1904), editor. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882 Stephen published much of RLS's early work and provided him with encouragement at a cru- cial phase of his literary career. His book Studies of a Biogra- pher (1902) includes an important essay on RLS.

Stevenson, Fanny (Frances Matilda Vandegrift Osbourne) (1840-1914), wife of RLS. Born in Indianapolis, she married Samuel Osbourne in 1857 and had three children: Isobel (Belle), Samuel Lloyd (usually known as Lloyd), and Hervey (who died in infancy). In 1880 she divorced Osbourne and married RLS in the same year; they had no children of their own. Fol- lowing the death of RLS in 1894 Fanny devoted her life to furthering his literary reputation. She died in California in 1914 and is interred beside RLS at Samoa.

Stevenson, Margaret (Margaret Isabella Balfour) (1829-97), mother of RLS. The daughter of a minister, she was a devoted wife and mother. On the death of her husband Thomas in 1887, Margaret - then aged 58 - threw in her lot with her son and accompanied him on his travels to the United States and the South Seas. Following the death of RLS she returned to her native Scotland and lived with her sister. She died in 1897 at the age of 68. She wrote two volumes of memoirs of interest to RLS scholars: The Stevenson Circle 89

From Saranac to the Marqueasas (1903) and Letters from Samoa (1906).

Stevenson, Robert Alan Mowbray (Bob) (1847-1900), cousin of RLS. An art critic and student of painting, he accompanied RLS during many of his journeys to Paris, Fontainebleau and Grez. A brilliant conversationalist, he is Spring Heel'd Jack in 'Talk and Talkers'. His extravagant style of talking is reflected in the character of Somerset in MNAN and in Ewart in Wells's novel Tono-Bungay (1909).

Stevenson, Thomas (1818-87), father of RLS. A distinguished lighthouse engineer, he married Margaret Balfour in 1848: RLS was their only child. Devoted to his son, Thomas was a deeply religious man and was mortified when RLS announced in 1873 that he was an agnostic. Thomas wished RLS to become a lighthouse engineer and at first discouraged his literary am- bitions, urging a legal career as a more practical alternative. He eventually became reconciled to his son's literary bent and nomadic disposition, offering RLS an annual income when the latter announced his intention to marry. RLS included a memoir of his father, 'Thomas Stevenson', in MP.

Strong, Joseph (Joe) Dwight. A young artist who married Fanny's daughter Isobel (Belle). Joe became a member of the Stevenson menage at Vailima but his unstable disposition caused Belle to divorce him.

Symonds, John Addington (1840-93), poet and critic. RLS and Symonds met at Davos in 1880 and became friends. RLS admired Symond's courage in struggling against chronic ill-health and portrayed him as 'Opalstein' in 'Talk and Talkers'.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm (1853-1917), actor and manager. He corresponded with both RLS and Henley regarding the publication and performance of the plays written jointly by them, and took the leading role in the first performance of Beau Austin. 90 A Robert Louis Stevenson Chronology

Twain, Mark (1835-1910), novelist and essayist, author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Twain met RLS during his sec- ond visit to the United States in 1887 and the two began a correspondence. RLS had a keen appreciation for Twain's work. Chronology of Stevenson's Principal Works

An Inland Voyage, 1878 Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes 1878 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, 1879 Virginibus Puerisque, 1881 Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 1882 New Arabian Nights, 1882 Treasure Island, 1883 The Silverado Squatters, 1884 A Child's Garden of Verses, 1885 More New Arabian Nights, 1885 Prince Otto, 1885 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886 Kidnapped, 1886 The Merry Men, 1887 Memories and Portraits, 1887 Underwoods, 1887 The Black Arrow, 1888 The Wrong Box, 1889 The Master of Ballantrae, 1889 Across the Plains, 1892 The Wrecker, 1892 A Footno te to History, 1892 Island Nights Entertainments, 1893 David Balfour (English title Catriona), 1893 Th e Ebb Tide, 1894

POSTHUMOUSL Y PUBLISHED

Tile Amateur Emigrant, 1895 Weir of Hermiston, 1896

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In the South Seas, 1896 St Ives, 1897

UNFINISHED NOVELS

The texts of the following unfinished novels are included in the Tusitala and Skerryvore editions of Stevenson's works (volumes 16 and 14 respectively).

Heathercat 3 chapters The Young Chevalier 2 chapters The Great North Road 8 chapters The Story of a Recluse 1 chapter Adventures of Henry Shovel 3 chapters The Owl 1 chapter Cannonmills 1 chapter Mr Baskerville and His Ward 1 chapter Sources

My principal source has been Stevenson's own letters, of which some 2800 survive. These are now available in the splendid edition of The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Bradford A. Booth and Ernest Mehew (1994). This is a scholarly edition which supersedes the useful but not wholly reliable compilation edited by Sidney Colvin, which for many years was the only edition available.

Other important sources have been the numerous biographies of Stevenson, especially those by Frank McLynn (1993), Ian Bell (1992), James Pope Hennessy (1974) and Graham Balfour (1901). For bibliographical information I have consulted Roger G. Swearingen's excellent compilation The Prose Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson (1980).

The following have also been consulted:

Aldington, Richard, Portrait of a Rebel (1957). Bell, Ian, Robert Louis Stevenson (1992). Calder, Jenni, RLS: A Life Study (1980). Calder, Jenni (ed.), Stevenson and Victorian Scotland (1981). Hammond, J. R., A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion (1984). Knight, Alanna, The Robert Louis Stevenson Treasury (1985). Maixner, Paul (ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heri- tage (1981). Rankin, Nicholas, Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson (1987). Smith, Janet Adam (ed.), Herry James and Robert Louis Stevenson (1948). Stoneley, Peter (ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson: The Collected Shorter Fiction (1991).

93 Index

This index is divided into three sections:

1. The writing of Robert Louis Stevenson 2. People 3. Places: (a) British Isles (b) Europe (c) Outside Europe

1. The Writing of Robert Louis Stevenson

Across the Plains, 38, 39, 54, 68, 'Cannonmills', 92 70 Catriona, 50, 53, 69, 70, 71, 72, Admiral Guinea, 43, 44, 85 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78 Adventures of Henry Shovel, 65, 66 'A Chapter on Dreams', 54, 55 'Aes Triplex', 23 'Charles of Orleans', 18, 20 'Ajax', 37 A Child's Garden of Verses, 37, The Amateur Emigrant, 28, 29, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 83 30, 38, 'Child's Play', 24 'American Rights and Wrongs', 'A Christmas Sermon', 59 49 'College for Men and Women', 'The Antiquities of Midlothian', 3 15 'An Apology for Idlers', 19,21 'A Covenanting Story Book', 5 'An Appeal to the Clergy of the 'Crabbed Age and Youth', 21, 23 Church of Scotland', 16 'The Curate of Anstruther's 'An Autumn Effect', 15, 16 Bottle', 13

Ballads, 59, 60, 63, 64 David Balfour see Catriona 'The Ballads and Songs of 'Davos in Winter', 32 Scotland', 15 Deacon Brodie, 25, 26, 37, 43, 52, The Beach of Falesa, 64, 66, 67, 56,85 68, 69, 71 'The Devil on Cramond Sands', Beall Austin, 64, 85, 89 8,20 'Beggars', 54, 56 The Dynamiter see More New The Black Arrow, 19,39,40,56, Arabian Nights 58,86 'The Body Snatchers', 33 The Ebb Tide, 60, 63, 64, 66, 73, 'The Book of Joseph', 2 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 81 'The Bottle Imp', 65 Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, 24, 'The Builder's Doom', 6 25,26

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'The Education of an Engineer', 'The Isle of Voices', 73 5,6,58 'El Dorado', 23 'Jerry Abershaw', 35 'The English Admirals', 24 'John Knox', 15, 16 'An Epilogue to An Inland 'Jules Vernes' Stories', 19 Voyage', 17 Kidnapped, 7, 19, 36, 46, 48, 49, Fables, 57 50, 59, 69, 77, 83 Familiar Studies of Men and 'The King's Rubies', 48 Books, 27, 34, 35 Father Damien, 62, 63 'The Lantern Bearers', 54, 55 'Fontainebleau', 17, 39, 42 'A Last Adventure', 24 A Footnote to History, 68, 69, 70, 'Lay Morals', 26, 40 71 'A Letter to a Young 'Forest Notes', 17, 18, 19 Gentleman', 58 'The Foreigner at Home', 12, 36 Life of Hazlitt, 34 'Franc;ois Villon', 22 'A Lodging for the Night', 21, 22

'Gentlemen', 55, 56, 57 Macaire, 45, 47, 85 'The Go-Between', 73 'The Manse', 52, 82 'The Gospel According to Walt 'Markheim', 44, 45, 52 Whitman', 22 The Master of Ballantrae, 54, 55, 'A Gossip on Romance', 35, 37 56, 58, 59, 60, 61 The Great North Road, 44 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, 47, The Greenwood State (see Prince 51, 52, 53, 85 Otto) 'Memoirs of an Islet', 7 'Memoirs of Himself, 8, 29, 31 'The Hair Trunk', 21, 26 Memories and Portraits, 53, 54 'The Hanging Judge', 52 'The Merry Men', 33, 36, 42 'Health and Mountains', 32 The Merry Men and Other Tales 'Heathercat', 76, 77 and Fables, 52 'Henry David Thoreau', 29, 30 'The Misadventures of John Hester Noble, 45 Nicholson', 51, 55 'A History of Moses', 2 Monmouth: A Tragedy,S 'A House Divided', 29 Moral Emblems, 80 'The House of Eld', 14 'The Morality of the Profession 'A Humble Remonstrance', 43, of Letters', 31, 32 44, 45, 85 More New Arabian Nights, 42, An Inland Voyage, 19,23,88 44, 45, 46, 89 'My First Book: Treasure Island', 'In Memoriam F.A.s:, 32 76,79 In the South Seas, 58, 60-1, 63, 65,66 New Arabian Nights, 24, 35, 36, 'In the Wind bound Arethusa', 21 37,62 Island Nights Entertainments, 71, 'A New Form of Intermittent 72,73,74 Light for Lighthouses', 8 Index 97

'Night outside the Wick Mail', 6 The Shovels of Newton French see 'Notes on the Movements of Adventures of Henry Shovel Young Children', 14 The Silverado Squatters, 30, 34, 'A Note on Realism', 40 36, 38, 40 'The Sire de Maletroit's Door', 'Olalla', 48, 52 22 'Old Mortality', 42, 84 'Some Aspects of Robert Burns', 'The Old Pacific Capital', 30 27,28 'An Old Song', 15, 21 'Some Gentlemen in Fiction', 'On the Enjoyment of 55,56, 57 Unpleasant Places', 15 'Some Portraits by Raeburn', 20 'On Falling in Love', 20, 21 'Sophia Scarlet', 69, 70 'Ordered South', 13, 14 'The Story of a Lie', 26, 27, 28, 42 'Pan's Pipes', 23 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and 'Pastoral', 51, 52 Mr Hyde, 47, 48, 49, 51 'The Pavilion on the Links', 28, 'Sunday', 80 29, 30, 84 'A Penny Plain and Twopence 'Talk and Talkers', 35, 85, 88, Coloured', 2, 40, 42 89 The Pearl Fisher see The Ebb Tide 'The Thermal Influence of The Pentland Rising, 4 Forests', 11, 12 'A Plea for Gas Lamps', 23 'Thomas Stevenson: Civil 'The Poets and Poetry of Engineer', 53, 89 Scotland', 18 'Thrawn Janet', 33, 34 'Popular Authors', 55, 57 'The Travelling Companion', 33, Prince Otto, 29, 38, 39, 40, 41, 40 42, 47, 48, 54 Travels with a Donkey, 24, 26, 27, 'Providence and the Guitar', 25 50 'Pulvis et Umbra', 54, 56 Treasure Island, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 45, 84, 85 'A Quiet Corner of England', 16 'The Treasure of Franchard', 36, 37,38 'Random Memories', 58 'Truth of Intercourse', 26 Records of a Family of Engineers, 66, 67, 75 Underwoods, 51, 52, 54 'Requiem', 29 'A Retrospect', 6 Vailima Letters, 64 'The Right Conduct of the 'A Vendetta in the West', 28 Imagination', 6 'Victor Hugo's Romances', 14,. 15 'Roads', 12, 13 Virginibus Puerisque, 19, 20, 31, 32 51. Ives, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 'Samuel Pepys', 30, 31, 32, 33 'The Waif Woman', 73 'Scottish Rivers', 15 'Walking Tours', 19 The Sea Cook see Treasure Island 'Walt Whitman', 13 98 Index

Weir of Hermiston, 72, 73, 74, 75, The Wrecker, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 77,80 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 81 'When the Devil Was Well', 16 The Wrong Box, 54, 56, 58, 59, 'The White Nigger', 56 81 'Will 0' the Mill', 21, 22 'A Winters' Walk in Carrick 'Yellow Paint', 14 and Galloway', 18 'The Young Chevalier', 70, 77 'The Works of Edgar Allan Poe', 16

2. People

Ainsworth, W. H., 34 Caine, Hall, 63, 80 Archer, William, 46, 47, 48, 49, Carlyle, Thomas, 32 77,82 Clark, Dr Andrew, 12, 13, 14, 31,36 Baildon, H. B., 4, 77 Collins, Wilkie, 5 Balfour, Lewis, 1, 82 The Moonstone, 5 Balfour, Maud, 7 The Woman in White, 39 Balfour, Thomas Graham, 11, Colvin, Sidney, 12-14, 18, 22, 23, 37, 70, 71, 72, 73, 78, 80-1 25,27-9,32,33,41-3,45, Ballantyne, R. M., 78 46, 49-53, 55, 56, 59, 60, 61, Balzac, H., 9 64-9, 71-6, 78, 80, 81, 83 Barrie, J. M., 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, Crockett, S. R., 74, 75, 83 76, 77, 78, 82 Cunningham, Alison, 1, 9, 51, Baudelaire, c., 6 79, 81, 83 Baxter, Charles, 8, 9, 11, 17, 21, 24, 29, 34, 35, 41, 46, 48, 49, Defoe, Daniel, 43 56, 57, 60, 62, 66, 67, 68, 69, Dickens, Charles, 15, 42 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, Christmas Books, 15 78, 79, 80, 83 Dombey and Son, 42 Blackmore, R. D., 64 Great Expectations, 38 Boodle, Adelaide, 63, 83 Hard Times, 35 Boswell, James, 18 Martin Chllzziewit, 42, 49 Browne, Hablot K. ('Phiz'), 71, Dodge, Mary Mapes, 52 72 Dostoevsky, F. M., 48 Browning, Robert, 18, 43 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 74, Burlingame, E. L., 54, 55, 56, 75, 76, 78, 79, 83-4 58, 59, 62, 63, 64, 66, 69, 70, Dumas, A., 4, 49 72, 76, 77, 78, 83 Eliot, George, 11, 32 Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 50 Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 52 Ferrier, James Walter, 7, 9, 10, Burns, Robert, 27 40, 84 Index 99

France, Anatole, 78 Low, Will H., 41, 45, 49, 50, 53, 54,60,86 Gallienne, Richard Ie, 76 Lytton, Bulwer, 14 Gladstone, W. E., 45 Gosse, Sir Edmund, 7, 27, 28, Marryat, Captain F., 54 29, 32, 33, 34, 39, 40, 42, 43, Mattos, Katharine de, 48, 56, 86 45, 48, 49, 50, 53, 66, 75, 80, Maurier, George du, 80 84 McClure, S. S., 55, 56, 63, 76, 86 Greene, Graham, 7 Meredith, George, 23, 26, 27, 36, 42, 46, 47, 49, 50, 75, 78, Haggard, Sir H. Rider, 47, 67, 86 71,84 Milton, John, 5 Eric Brighteyes, 67 Moors, H. J., 61, 86 King Solomon's Mines, 47 Morris, William, 9, 69 Nada the Lily, 71 Myers, F. W. H., 71 Hardy, Thomas, 47, 49, 50, 72, 84-5 Osbourne, Fanny see Stevenson, The Mayor of Casterbridge, 50 Fanny Tess of the Durbervilles, 72 Osbourne, Hervey, 19 Harrison, Frederic, 68 Osbourne, Isabel (Belle) see Henley, W. E., 16, 22, 25-9, 31-3, Strong, Belle 35-9, 41-50, 53, 56, 57, 60, Osbourne, Samuel, former 64, 68, 69, 71, 72, 77, 79, 85 husband of Fanny, 2, 21, 28 Homes, Oliver Wendell, 5 Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd, Hope Anthony, 80 stepson of RLS, 5, 20, 30, 34, 36, 52, 54, 56, 59, 60, 63, Iles, George, 54 69, 80, 81, 87 Irving, Henry, 16 Paul, Kegan, 23, 26 James, G. P. K, 56 Pepys, Samuel, 31 James, Henry, 27, 32, 43, 44, 46, Poe, Edgar Allan, 16 47, 50, 53, 54, 56, 57, 60, 62, 63, 64, 68, 70, 73, 75, 76, 78, Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, 80 85 'The Art of Fiction', 43 Renan, Ernest, 72 Princess Casamassima, 47 Richardson, Samuel, 22 Roderick Hudson, 54 Rodin, Auguste, 50, 51, 87 The Tragic Muse, 68 Washington Square, 32 Saintsbury, George, 66 Jenkin, Fleeming, 8, 14, 17, 19, Schwab, Marcel, 63, 87 24, 46, 85 Scott, Sir Walter, 13, 69 The Fortunes of Nigel, 14 Kipling, Rudyard, 66, 72 Rob Roy, 76 Waverley, 14 Lang, Andrew, 13, 14, 27, 33, Woodstock, 13 49, 86 Shaw, George Bernard, 49 100 Index

Simpson, Sir Walter Grindlay, 29, 34, 46, 52, 89 9,10, 14, 15, 17, 19, 41, 88 Strong, Belle, stepdaughter of Sitwell, Frances, 12, 13, 15, 16, RLS, 2, 20, 75, 80, 87 18, 22, 31, 32, 78, 81, 88 Symonds, John Addington, 31, Stephen, Leslie, 14, 16, 19,22, 33, 35, 53, 55, 58, 89 32, 33, 43, 88 Stevenson, Fanny (Frances Thackeray, W. M., 11 Matilda Vandegrift Thoreau, Henry, 28 Osbourne), wife of RLS, 2, Tree, H. Beerbohm, 45, 47, 89 19-24, 27-30, 32, 35, 36, 38, Trollope, Anthony, 23 41, 42, 46, 47, 50, 52, 53, 55, Twain, Mark, 57, 74, 90 56, 58, 66, 67, 76, 80, 88 Stevenson, Margaret (Margaret Verne, Jules, 19 Isabella Balfour), mother of RLS, 1, 15, 23, 60, 65, 80, Ward, Artemus,S R1, 88-9 Ward, Mrs Humphrey, 79 Stevenson, Robert Alan Wells, H. G., 89 Mowbray (Bob), cousin of Whitman, Walt, 12, 13, 22 RLS, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 17, 37, 45, 79, 81, 89 Yeats, W. B., 77 Stevenson, Thomas, father of RLS, 1, 4, 6, 8, 12, 23, 28, Zola, Emile, 49

3. Places (a) British Isles

Anstruther, 5 Dunoon, 6

Bournemouth, 43, 44, 46, 49, 51, Earraid, 7 53 Edinburgh, 1-4, 8, 10, 16-19, 21, Box Hill, 23, 27, 36, 50 22, 23, 26, 30, 32, 36, 52, 53, Braemar,33 74 Bridge of Allan, 2, 4, 11, 17 Edinburgh University, 4-5, 9, 15, 17 Cambridge; 25, 46 Chiltern Hills, 15 Glasgow, 8, 27 Cockfield, 7, 12 Colin ton, 1, 3 Isleworth, 3

Dorchester, 47 Kingussie, 36, 37 Dumfries, 12 Dunblane,9 Liverpool, 30 Index 101

London, 12, 14-17, 21-7, 31, 36, Queensferry, 19 49, 51, 53 Richmond, 43 Malvern, 11 Matlock,49 Strathpeffer, 30 Swanston, 4, 5, 7,14,15, 17, 19, Oban, 7, 36 26,27 Orkney, 6 Torquay,4 Peebles, 4, 36 Weybridge, 34 Pitlochry, 32, 33 Wick,S, 15

(b) Europe

Antwerp, 19 Lyon, 39

Baden Baden, 10 Marseilles, 37, 38 Barbizon, 17, 19, 32 Maubeuge, 19, 20 Berne, 34 Mentone, 3, 12, 13, 14, 41 Brussels, 10, 19 Monastier, 24 Monaco, 13, 41 Davos, 31, 32, 34, 36 Dieppe, 22, 23 Nice, 38, 41

Frankfurt, 10 Paris, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 32, 50 Grez, 20, 21, 22, 24 Royat, 39, 43 Hamburg, 3 Hyeres, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43 Wiesbaden, 17

Gilbert Islands, 60, 61, 62, 63 San Francisco, 28, 29, 30, 57 Saranac, 54, 55 Honolulu, 59, 60, 76 Silverado, 30 Sydney, 62, 63, 64, 65, 73, 74 Marqueasas Islands, 58 Monterey, 27, 28 Tahiti, 58, 59

New York, 27, 30, 54, 57 Vailima, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 78, 80 Samoa, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 76, 80; see also Vailima Waikiki, 59, 76