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9 Flora Masson recalling ‘Louis Stevenson in Edinburgh’, ICR, pp.135–6
10 ‘Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin’, Vailima, vol. 11, pp.526–7
11 Literary Papers, Vailima, vol. 4, p.472
12 ICR, p.53
13 Ibid., p.52
14 ‘Lay Morals’, Vailima, vol. 24, p.186
15 J.A. Symonds, Walt Whitman: A Study (1893), p.40
16 ‘Walt Whitman’, Vailima, vol. 4, p.114
17 Though it was never completed; see Swearingen, p.11
18 ICR, p.58
19 Ibid., p.95
20 Flora Masson, Victorians All (Edinburgh, 1931), p.93
21 ICR, p.46
22 ‘Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin’, Vailima, vol. 11, p.519
23 Flora Masson, Victorians All (Edinburgh, 1931), pp.100, 101
24 Balfour, vol. 1, p.109
25 Ibid., p.11
26 Ibid.
27 ‘Talk and Talkers’, 1st paper, Vailima, vol. 12, p.121
28 Ibid., pp.112–13
29 Portrait, p.5
30 Letters, vol. 1, p.273
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid., p.274
33 Ibid., p.296
34 Colvin, p.104
35 ICR, p.88
36 Lucas, p.64
37 Ibid., pp.338–9
38 ‘HB’ [Cotter Morrison] to FJS, MS Yale, vault 805, folder M; ‘X’ [Sidney Colvin], Her Infinite Variety, ed. E.V. Lucas (London, 1908), p.71; Letters, vol. 1, p.303
39 ‘X’ [Sidney Colvin], Her Infinite Variety, ed. E.V. Lucas (London, 1908), p.71
40 ICR, p.88
41 Colvin, p.103
42 Ibid., p.101
43 See the very thorough investigation of the available ‘Claire’ material in Furnas, pp.394–9
44 Letters, vol. 1, p.319
45 Ibid., pp.293, 292
46 ICR, p.88
47 ‘X’ [Sidney Colvin], Her Infinite Variety, ed. E.V. Lucas (London, 1908), pp.71–2
48 E.V. Lucas, Reading, Writing and Remembering: A Literary Record (London, 1932), p.61
49 ‘At the Land’s End of France’ was reproduced in the last chapter of Colvin’s Memories and Notes
50 Ernest Mehew sees Mrs Sitwell and Colvin as a pair from the start, mutually concerned in these years for their young friend. Furnas sees the possibility of Mrs Sitwell having ‘slipped into carnal congress with Louis or any other disciple’ as ‘most unlikely’; Furnas, p.84
51 Quoted in Letters, vol. 1, p.477n
52 NLS Balfour, 9894, f233
53 FS to GB, November 1899, NLS Balfour, 9894, f274
54 Letters, vol. 1, p.288
55 Ibid.
56 Ibid., pp.320–1
57 Ibid., p.369
58 Ibid., pp.336–7
59 Ibid., p.294
60 Ibid., p.295
61 Ibid.
62 Ibid., p.294
63 Ibid., p.312
64 Ibid.
65 Ibid., p.325
66 Ibid., p.331
67 ‘Notes from his Mother’s Diary’, Vailima, vol. 26, p.325
68 Letters, vol. 1, p.354
4 : AH WELLESS
1 Letters, vol. 1, p.352
2 ‘Ordered South’, Vailima, vol. 2, p.104
3 Ibid., pp.110–11
4 Letters, vol. 1, p.375
5 Ibid., p.395
6 Ibid., p.402
7 Ibid., p.401
8 See ibid., p.422
9 Vailima, vol. 24, p.320
10 Letters, vol. 1, p.506
11 Ibid., p.430
12 Letters, vol. 2, p.317
13 Letters, vol. 6, p.269
14 Colvin, p.114
15 Letters, vol. 1, p.457
16 Ibid., pp.437, 42–9
17 SC, fragmentary recollections, not included in Memories and Notes, MS Yale, vault 805, box 2, folder G
18 Letters, vol. 1, pp.464–5. (The conjectural reading of two or three inked-out words is by Ernest Mehew)
19 Ibid., p.501
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid., p.504
22 Ibid.
23 Letters, vol. 2, p.10
24 Andrew Lang, Adventures Among Books (London, 1903), p.43
25 Letters, vol. 2, p.3
26 Ibid., p.1
27 Furnas, p.96
28 Letters, vol. 2, p.25
29 Ibid., p.26
30 Gosse, p.281
31 Ibid., p.282
32 Ibid., pp.279–80
33 Balfour, vol. 1, p.176
34 E.V. Lucas, Reading, Writing and Remembering (London, 1932), p.60
35 Letters, vol. 2, p.33
36 Ibid., p.32
37 Ibid., p.43
38 Vailima, vol. 5, p.xx
39 Letters, vol. 2, p.74
40 ‘On Lord Lytton’s Fables in Song’, Vailima, vol. 24, p.54
41 Fables, Vailima, vol. 25, p.249
42 Jorge Luis Borges, Conversations, ed. Richard Burgin (Jackson, 1998). Daniel Balderston, in his PhD thesis, ‘Borges’s Frame of Reference: The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson’ (Princeton University, 1981), records Borges’s interjections during a reading of ‘The Song of the Morrow’, showing the great writer’s delight at Stevenson’s phraseology
43 Vailima, vol. 24, p.50
44 Miscellanea, Vailima, vol. 26
45 Letters, vol. 2, p.41
46 Vailima, vol. 26, p.104
47 Letters, vol. 2, p.41 n3
48 J.A. MacCulloch, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Bridge of Allan (1927), p.151
49 Letters, vol. 2, p.4
50 Ibid., p.145
51 Ibid., p.95
52 Ibid., p.97
53 Ibid., pp.97–8
54 Ibid., p.98
55 Letters, vol. 1, p.385
56 Letters, vol. 2, p.94 and n
57 Ibid., pp.96–7, 108
58 Ibid., p.104
59 Ibid., p.198
60 Ibid., pp.76–7
61 Ibid., p.124
62 Ibid., p.114
63 ‘A Summer Night’, reprinted in Appendix to ibid., p.334
64 Ibid., p.117
65 Ibid., pp.120, 124
66 In a letter to FJS, ?8 May 1875, ibid., p.135
67 ‘In Hospital’, The Works of W.E. Henley (London, 1908), vol. 1
68 Ibid.
69 Letters, vol. 2, p.132
70 Ibid., p.123
71 Ibid., p.123 n1
72 ‘Forest Notes’, Vailima, vol. 24, pp.391–2
73 Ibid., pp.392–3
74 Portrait, p.3
75 Details from Margaret B. Wright, ‘Bohemian Days’, Scribner’s Monthly, vol. 16 (May 1878), pp.121–9
76 The Wrecker, Chapter 2, Vailima, vol. 17, p.63
77 Letters, vol. 2, p.130
78 Ibid., p.125
79 ICR, p.114
80 Ibid., p.96
81 Ibid., p.295
82 NLS Balfour, 9897, f107
83 ICR, p.162
84 Ibid., p.65
85 Letters, vol. 2, p. 166
86 ICR, p.65
87 Graham Balfour’s notes, taken from conversations with RLS; NLS Balfour, 9897, ff109, 110
88 Eve Blantyre Simpson, Robert Louis Stevenson (Boston and London, 1906), p.42
5 : STENNIS FRÈRE
1 FS to Timothy Rearden, Paris, June 1876, MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 32
2 Margaret Mackay, The Violent Friend (London, 1969), p.4
3 Daily Territorial Enterprise, 1862–63, quoted in Mark Twain, Roughing It (Mark Twain Library edition, Berkeley, 1995), p.176
4 Alexandra Lapierre, Fanny Stevenson (London, 1995), does not specify the sources
5 Field, p. 17
6 Quoted in Alexandra Lapierre, Fanny Stevenson (London, 1995), p.33
7 Field, p.17
8 Ibid., p.18
9 Alexandra Lapierre, Fanny Stevenson (London, 1995), p.40
10 Mark Twain, Roughing It (Mark Twain Library edition, Berkeley, 1995), pp.281–2
11 Ibid.
, p.282
12 Quoted in Alexandra Lapierre, Fanny Stevenson (London, 1995), p.57
13 Nellie Vandegrift Sanchez, The Life of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson (1920), pp.30–1
14 Field, p.45
15 FS to Timothy Rearden, n.d., ?1864, MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 3
16 Ibid., letter 35
17 Ibid., letter 25
18 Field, p.82
19 Ibid., p.80
20 Ibid., p.81
21 FS to Dora Williams, 25 August 1875, MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3834
22 Ibid.
23 FS to Timothy Rearden, 31 October 1875, MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 24
24 MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3834
25 FS to Timothy Rearden, 18 April 1876, MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 31
26 Field, p.104
27 Perhaps this was something like the incident in ‘The Misadventures of John Nicolson’ when John goes briefly on the run to escape duns. The cryptic references to RLS’s ‘trouble’ are in Letters, vol. 2, pp.178 and n6, 181 and n2
28 Ibid., p.176
29 ‘Virginibus Puerisque’, Vailima, vol. 2, p.11
30 Ibid., p.20
31 Ibid., pp.25, 16, 25
32 Vailima, vol. 1, pp.53–4
33 Ibid., p.104
34 Colvin, p.109
35 Vailima, vol. 1, p.137
36 Ibid., p.96
37 Ibid., p.131
38 Ibid., pp.131–2
39 Quoted in Maixner, p.56
40 Ibid., p.8
41 Mehew shows in Letters, vol. 2, p.191 nI that RLS was in Paris on 20 September 1876, and again in mid-October on his way back to Edinburgh (which he reached on 16 October). I am therefore guessing that RLS went from Pontoise to Paris briefly (he says in his letter he was buying books there), then on to Grez, where Simpson would have preceded him by a few days
42 ICR, p.173
43 Margaret B. Wright, ‘Bohemian Days’, Scribner’s Monthly, vol. 16 (May 1878)
44 Ibid.
45 FS to Timothy Rearden, April 1877, MS Silverado
46 FS to Timothy Rearden, 25 July 1876, MS Silverado
47 ‘A Ball at Mr Elsinare’s’, The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays (ed. Jeremy Treglown; London, 1988), p.52
48 Vailima, vol. 2, p.43
49 Letters, vol. 2, p.193
50 FS to Timothy Rearden, 13 December 1876, MS Silverado
51 FS to Timothy Rearden, ‘p.m. Feb 1877 Paris’, MS Yale
52 FS to Timothy Rearden, 13 December 1876, MS Silverado
53 The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays (ed. Jeremy Treglown; London, 1988), p.52
54 Letters, vol. 2, p.199
55 Ibid., p.205
56 Ibid., p.208
57 Vailima, vol. 3, p.348
58 See Letters, vol. 2, p.145 n3
59 Ibid., p.236
60 Ibid., pp.218, 219
61 Quoted in ibid., p.225 n1
62 Colvin, p.130
63 Vailima, vol. 1, p.440
64 Letters, vol. 2, p.227
65 Ibid., pp.241–2
66 Ibid., pp.244, 240
67 Maixner, p.54
68 Hammerton, pp.35–6
69 Related by Birge Harrison in ICR, p.179
70 Field, p.111
71 Balfour, vol. 1, p.188
72 Portrait, p.13
6 : THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT
1 Letters, vol. 2, p.268
2 Vailima, vol. 1, p.210
3 Ibid., p.216
4 Ibid., p.217
5 Ibid., p.220
6 Ibid., p.249
7 Letters, vol. 2, p.313
8 Vailima, vol. 1, p.277
9 Ibid., p.230
10 Ibid., pp.297–8
11 Richard Holmes, Footsteps (London, 1985), p.54
12 RLS, The Cévennes Journal: Notes on a Journey Through the French Highlands, ed. Gordon Golding et al. (Edinburgh, 1978), p.81
13 Letters, vol. 2, pp.280–1
14 ‘Echoes’ no. xxiv, The Works of W.E. Henley (London, 1908), vol. 1
15 Gosse, p.282
16 Letters, vol. 2, pp.297–8
17 Ibid., p.300
18 See Malcolm Elwin, The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson (London, 1950), p.2, and Swearingen, p.41
19 ‘Lay Morals’, Vailima, vol. 24, p.202
20 Colvin provided this information; see Letters, vol. 2, p. 314 n7
21 Philip Gosse, My Pirate Library (London, 1926), pp.9–10
22 Quoted in Letters, vol. 2, p.330 n6
23 Ibid., p.330
24 SC to WEH, quoted in Lucas, p.113
25 Letters, vol. 2, p.315
26 MS Yale; see Letters, vol. 3, p.7 n2 and Baxter Letters, p.66 n11
27 See www.unibg.it/rls and follow ‘biographical links’ to ‘The Blue Pills’
28 See RLS to FS, Letters, vol. 2, p.312
29 Ibid., p.315
30 Ibid.
31 26 February 1900, quoted in ibid., p.320 n2
32 Ibid., p.328
33 Letters, vol. 3, p.6
34 Ibid., pp.2–3
35 Vailima, vol. 2, pp.279–80
36 Ibid., p.255
37 Scribner’s Magazine, May 1888, quoted in Balfour, vol. 1, pp.196–7
38 Vailima, vol. 2, pp.283–4
39 Vailima, vol. 3, pp.498–9
40 ‘Across the Plains’, Vailima, vol. 2, P.372
41 Letters, vol. 3, p.10
42 Ibid.
43 Vailima, vol. 2, pp.364–5
44 Ibid., p.350
45 Ibid., p.283
46 Ibid., p.387
47 Ibid., p.380
48 ‘The Old Pacific Capital’, ibid., p.413
49 Portrait, pp.16–17
50 Elsie Noble Caldwell, Last Witness for Robert Louis Stevenson (Norman, Oklahoma, 1960), p.10
51 Letters, vol. 3, p.13
52 FS to Timothy Rearden, n.d., MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 54
53 FS to Timothy Rearden, Davos, n.d., MS Silverado, notebook 1, letter 58
54 Letters, vol. 3, p.12
55 Ibid., p.16
56 Ibid.
57 Ibid., pp.13–14
58 Ibid., p.13
59 Collected Poems, p.88
60 Letters, vol. 3, p.16
61 Elsie Noble Caldwell, Last Witness for Robert Louis Stevenson (Norman, Oklahoma, 1960), p.10
62 James D. Hart (ed.), From Scotland to Silverado (Cambridge, Mass., 1966), pp.172–8
63 Ibid.
64 Ibid.
65 Letters, vol. 3, p.5
66 Ibid., p.41
67 Ibid., p.12
68 Ibid., pp.23–4
69 SC to CB, ibid., p.38
70 Ibid., p.41
71 Ibid., p.27
72 See Edward Berwick’s ‘Reminiscences of Robert Louis Stevenson’, MS Bancroft, C-H 107
73 See Roy Nickerson, Robert Louis Stevenson in California: A Remarkable Courtship (San Francisco, 1982), pp.57–8
74 WEH to SC, Letters, vol. 3, p.41
75 Ibid., p.38
76 Ibid.
77 Ibid., p.21
78 ‘Simoneau’s at Monterey’, James D. Hart (ed.), From Scotland to Silverado (Cambridge, Mass., 1966)
79 Letters, vol. 3, pp.41, 42
80 See Furnas, Appendix, ‘Controversy’, p.399. See also RLS to WEH, Letters, vol. 3, p.55, and Mehew’s footnote
81 ‘The Old Pacific Capital’, Vailima, vol. 2, pp.403–4
82 George R. Stewart Jr, ‘Glimpses of Stevenson’, NLS Balfour, 9897, ff176–87
83 ‘The Old Pacific Capital’, Vailima, vol. 2, p.410
84 Letters, vol. 3, p.45
85 Ibid., p.46
86 See the letter from Ferrier to his sister Elizabeth (‘Coggie’), 1 June 1880, quoted in ibid., p.74
87 Ibid., p.44
88 Ibid., p.60
89 Ibid., p.61
90 ‘San Francisco’, James D. Hart (ed.), From Scotland to Silverado (Cambridge, Mass., 1966)
91 Ibid.
92 ‘Dora Williams: reminiscence of RLS for the Century Club of San Francisco in aid of the Robert Louis Stevenson memorial’ (n.d.), MS Bancroft
93 Letters, vol. 3, p.42
94 Ibid., p.43
95 SC, quoting to WEH part of a letter from FS; see ibid., p.71
96 Ibid.
97 Letters, vol. 1, p.502
98 Letters, vol. 3, p.76
99 RLS to P.G. Hammerton, July 1881, ibid., p.203
7 : THE PROFESSIONAL SICKIST
1 Letters, vol. 3, p.83
2 The Silverado Squatters, Vailima, vol. 2, p.489
3 Ibid., p.565
4 Letters, vol. 3, p.86
5 Ibid., p.87
6 Field, p. 126
7 Lucas, pp.127–8
8 Quoted in Margaret Mackay, The Violent Friend (London, 1969), p.119
9 Letters, vol. 8, p.45
10 Letters, vol. 3, p.104n
11 Ibid., p.105
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid., p.96
15 The Silverado Squatters, Vailima, vol. 2, pp.471–2
16 J. Weber, Davos (Zürich and London, c.1880), p.28
17 Ibid., p.27
18 Letters, vol. 3, p.111 n2, and FSTo MIS, 13 October 1880,mS Silverado
19 Portrait, p.25
20 WEH to CB, 18 May 1881, Letters, vol. 3, p.182
21 Ibid., p.184
22 Ibid., p.118
23 Ibid., p.120
24 Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor (London, 1991), p.12
25 W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934), pp.81–2
26 J. Weber, Davos (Zürich and London, c.1880), p.73
27 ‘On Some Ghastly Companions at a Spa’, Collected Poems, p.327
28 Letters, vol. 3, p.126
29 ‘Davos in Winter’, Vailima, vol. 24, p.467
30 Letters, vol. 3, p.123
31 Harold Vailings, quoted in W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934), p.72
32 Vailima, vol. 12, pp.126–7
33 John Addington Symonds to H.F. Brown, 17 November 1880, Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters, The Letters of J.A. Symonds (Detroit, 1967–69), vol. 2, p.659
34 Ibid., p.664
35 Phyllis Grosskurth(ed.), The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds (London, 1984), p.260
36 Letters, vol. 3, p.162
37 W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934). p.245
38 Walt Whitman to J.A. Symonds, 19 August 1890
39 All quotations in Phyllis Grosskurth (ed.), The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds (London, 1984), Appendix 1, p.287
40 Ibid., p.188
41 W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934), p.50
42 Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (London, 2003), p.144
43 Hammerton, p.77