The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 09

Volume 9 — STEVENSON

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VOLUME NINE

LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXI

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MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS

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I. The Foreigner at Home 7

II. Some College Memories 19

III. Old Mortality 26

IV. A College Magazine 36

V. An Old Scots Gardener 46

VI. Pastoral 53

VII. The Manse 61

VIII. Memoirs of an Islet 68

IX. Thomas Stevenson 75

X. Talk and Talkers: I. 81

XI. Talk and Talkers: II. 94

XII. The Character of Dogs 105

XIII. A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured 116

XIV. A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas’s 124

XV. A Gossip on Romance 134

XVI. A Humble Remonstrance 148

MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN

CHAPTER I

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The Jenkins of Stowting—Fleeming’s grandfather—Mrs. Buckner’s fortune—Fleeming’s father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets King Tom; service in the West Indies; end of his career—The Campbell-Jacksons—Fleeming’s mother—Fleeming’s uncle John 165

CHAPTER II 1833-1851

Birth and childhood—Edinburgh—Frankfort-on-the-Main—Paris—The Revolution of 1848—The Insurrection—Flight to Italy—Sympathy with Italy—The insurrection in Genoa—A student in Genoa—The lad and his mother 184

CHAPTER III 1851-1858

Return to England—Fleeming at Fairbairn’s—Experience in a strike—Dr. Bell and Greek architecture—The Gaskells—Fleeming at Greenwich—The Austins—Fleeming and the Austins—His engagement—Fleeming and Sir W. Thomson 203

CHAPTER IV 1859-1868

Fleeming’s marriage—His married life—Professional difficulties—Life at Claygate—Illness of Mrs. F. Jenkin—and of Fleeming—Appointment to the Chair at Edinburgh 220

CHAPTER V

Notes of Telegraph Voyages, 1858-1873 231

CHAPTER VI 1869-1885

Edinburgh—Colleagues—Farrago vitæ—I. The family circle—Fleeming and his sons—Highland life—The cruise of the steam-launch—Summer in Styria—Rustic manners—II. The Drama—Private theatricals—III. Sanitary associations—The phonograph—IV. Fleeming’s acquaintance with a student—His late maturity of mind—Religion and morality—His love of heroism—Taste in literature—V. His talk—His late popularity—Letter from M. Trélat 260

CHAPTER VII 1875-1885

Mrs. Jenkin’s illness—Captain Jenkin—The golden wedding—Death of Uncle John—Death of Mr. and Mrs. Austin—Illness and death of the Captain—Death of Mrs. Jenkin—Effect on Fleeming—Telpherage—The end 293