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1. See Letter No. 3. 2. Works, Vailima edition (London: Heinemann, 1922-23), 9:25. (This is not the Vailima edition of Note 5.) 3. Ibid., p. 8. 4. Hawaiian Life (Chicago and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1894), p. 115. Stevenson characterized King Kalakaua, in A Footnote to History (Works, Swanston edition [London: Chatto & Windus, 1912], 17:36) as "that amiable, far from un- accomplished, but too convivial sovereign." 5. The South Seas, Works, Vailima edition (New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co., 1912), 9:23. 6. See Letter No. 2. 7. W. D. Alexander, History of the Later Years of the Mon- archy and the Hawaiian Revolution of 1893 (: Hawaiian Gazette Co., 1896), p. 16. 8. Sidney Colvin, ed., The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911), 4:227 (hereinafter given as Letters). 9. Huntington Library Manuscript HM 20534. Two pages of terms in Hawaiian and English are headed "General"; another page is headed "Divisions of land and sea"; and three pages are headed ": Kapus, Gods and Ghosts." Probably the Hawai- ian terms were given by Joseph Poepoe and the English definitions derived from , A Dictionary of the (Honolulu: Henry M. Whitney, 1865). 10. It appeared on February 10, 1890. 11. Letter No. 6 gives a full description and plan of the estate. 12. Next day the following note appeared in the Pacific Com- mercial Advertiser: "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson did xliii NOTES ON INTRODUCTION

not leave in the yacht, 'Casco,' that brought them here from the South Seas and sailed yesterday for San Francisco. It will afford the community pleasure to learn that the distinguished author will prolong his stay perhaps three months in this Paradise of the Pacific." 13. From a lecture by Mrs. Mabel Wing Castle in Arthur Johnstone, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific (London: Chatto & Windus, 1905), pp. 56-57 (hereinafter given as Johnstone). 14. The Cormorant was probably the pattern for the vessel called H.M.S. Tempest in Stevenson's novel The Wrecker. 15. The Cleghorn estate, situated across Kalakaua Avenue from Waikiki Beach and inland from the present Princess Kaiulani Hotel, has vanished under modern construction in Waikiki. At Cleghorn's death in 1910, his will left the grounds, to be used as a park, to the with certain restrictions. The legislature did not accept the offer. The land was bought in 1917 and subdivided. The history of the banyan tree, planted by Cleg- horn himself, is given in Sister Martha Mary McGaw, Stevenson in Hawaii (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1950), pp. 146-147 (hereinafter given as McGaw). The tree was cut down in 1949; the bronze plaque is now treasured by the Kaiulani School on North King Street in Honolulu. Cleghorn Street and Kaiulani Street are found in Waikiki, near Tusitala Street—named for the Samoan sobriquet of R.L.S., "teller of tales." The grass shack called the Stevenson Hut on the grounds of Waioli Tea Room in Manoa Valley was purchased by a resident from the 'Ainahau Estate and given to the Salvation Army; it is a popular shrine, although Stevenson may never have stepped inside it. 16. A Footnote to History (London: Cassell, 1892), Chapter 10. 17. Swanston edition (London: Chatto & Windus, 1912), 18:189. 18. See Letter No. 19. 19. See A. Grove Day, Adventurers of the Pacific (New York: Meredith Press, 1969), Chapter 8, "The Brothers Rorique: Pirates De Luxe." 20. Scribner's Magazine, 9¡282-288 (March 1891). 21. To Sidney Colvin, Letters, 4:168. 22. Accounts appeared in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser for April 8 and June 13, 1889. The latter item must have aroused R.L.S. to action. See Letter No. 19: "I am going down now to

xliv NOTES ON INTRODUCTION get the story of a shipwrecked family, who were fifteen months on an island with a murderer." "The captain of the rescuing vessel first ascertained exactly what amount of money had been saved from the wreck," recalled Mrs. Stevenson; "it was just this sum, several thousand dollars—comprising all the sailors' wages as well as the entire means of the captain—that the stranger demanded as his price for carrying the miserable creatures to the nearest civilized port, where they were dumped, penniless, on the wharf. . . . My husband and my son had been continually recurring, in their talk, to the mysterv of the Wandering Minstrel; it now struck them that they might collaborate on a novel, founded on the episode of the wreck. One fine moonlight night, the fresh trade wind blowing in their faces, the two men sat late on deck, inventing the plot of The Wrecker." Prefatory note, Vailima edition (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922), 17:7, 10. 23. To Sidney Colvin, Letters, 3 :i64- 24. Johnstone, p. 103. 25. See Letter No. 16. 26. The letter appeared in for January 11, 1925. 27. Tom O'Brien, "The Old Man of the Mountain," Honolulu Advertiser, Sunday Polynesian, August 17, 1947, p. 2. 28. Johnstone, p. 123. 29. See Letter No. 24. 30. Stevenson did not finish the poem in time to present it in the paper, and it first appeared in Johnstone, pp. 307—308. 31. See Letter No. 23. 32. McGaw, p. 134. 33. Johnstone, pp. 141-142. 34. Letters, 4 ¡284.

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