Note 37 — THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (continued 7)
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28 In San Francisco.
29 “The whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be in Sir Robert’s house at Pace and Yule, and such high seasons.”—See Wandering Willie’s Tale in Redgauntlet, borrowed perhaps from Christ’s Kirk of the Green.
30 The Davoser Landwasser.
31 In architecture, a series of piles to defend the pier of a bridge.
32 The translator of Sophocles in Bohn’s Classics.
33 Anne Killigrew.
34 Gentleman’s library.
35 i.e. breathed in, inhaled: a rare but legitimate use of the word.
36 Parliament House.
37
“He knew the rocks where angels haunt, Upon the mountains visitant.”
Wordsworth’s Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle.
38 Mr. Hamerton had been an unsuccessful candidate for the Professorship of Fine Art at Edinburgh University.
39 The Chalet am Stein (or Chalet Buol) at Davos.
40 In the summer of 1870: see above, pp. 24-30, and the essay Memories of an Islet in Memories and Portraits.
41 From Landor’s Gebir: the line refers to Napoleon Bonaparte.
42 The Editor’s defence was in the following terms: “That which you condemn is really the best story now appearing in the paper, and the impress of an able writer is stamped on every paragraph of the Treasure Island. You will probably share this opinion when you have read a little more of it.”
43 I struggle as hard as I know how against both, but a judicious postcard would sometimes save me the expense of the second.