Volume 24 — STEVENSON

VOLUME TWENTY FOUR

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

For permission to use the Letters in the Swanston Edition of Stevenson’s Works the Publishers are indebted to the kindness of Messrs. Methuen & Co., Ltd.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

THE LETTERS OF

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

EDITED BY

SIDNEY COLVIN

PARTS VII—X

CONTENTS

VII. THE RIVIERA AGAIN—MARSEILLES AND HYÈRES

PAGE

Introductory 3

Letters—

To the Editor of the New York Tribune 7

To R. A. M. Stevenson 8

To Thomas Stevenson 9

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 9

To Trevor Haddon 10

[Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to John Addington Symonds] 11

To Charles Baxter 14

To Sidney Colvin 15

To Alison Cunningham 16

To W. E. Henley 17

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 21

To Thomas Stevenson 22

To W. E. Henley 23

To Mrs. Sitwell 24

To Edmund Gosse 26

To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 27

To the Same 28

To Edmund Gosse 29

To the Same 30

To W. E. Henley 31

To the Same 32

To Sidney Colvin 33

To W. E. Henley 34

To the Same 36

To Jules Simoneau 36

To W. E. Henley 37

To Trevor Haddon 39

To Jules Simoneau 41

To Alison Cunningham 44

To Edmund Gosse 45

To Miss Ferrier 46

To W. E. Henley 47

To Edmund Gosse 50

To Miss Ferrier 52

To W. E. Henley 54

To Sidney Colvin 55

To W. E. Henley 57

To W. H. Low 57

To R. A. M. Stevenson 59

To Thomas Stevenson 62

To W. H. Low 63

To W. E. Henley 65

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 66

To Sidney Colvin 67

To Sidney Colvin 69

To Mrs. Milne 70

To Miss Ferrier 71

To W. E. Henley 72

To W. H. Low 73

To Thomas Stevenson 74

To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 75

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 76

To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 78

To W. E. Henley 79

To Sidney Colvin 81

To Mr. Dick 83

To Cosmo Monkhouse 85

To Edmund Gosse 87

To Miss Ferrier 88

To W. H. Low 89

To Thomas Stevenson 90

To W. E. Henley 91

To Trevor Haddon 93

To Cosmo Monkhouse 95

To W. E. Henley 96

To Edmund Gosse 97

To Sidney Colvin 98

To the Same 99

To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 100

To Sidney Colvin 101

To W. E. Henley 102

VIII. LIFE AT BOURNEMOUTH

Introductory 104

Letters—

To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 110

To Andrew Chatto 110

To W. E. Henley 111

To the Rev. Professor Lewis Campbell 113

To W. E. Henley 115

To W. H. Low 115

To Sir Walter Simpson 117

To Thomas Stevenson 118

To the Same 119

To W. E. Henley 120

To Charles Baxter 121

To Miss Ferrier 121

To Charles Baxter 122

To W. E. Henley 123

To Edmund Gosse 125

To Austin Dobson 126

To W. E. Henley 127

To Henry James 127

To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 130

To W. E. Henley 131

To Miss Ferrier 132

To W. E. Henley 133

To H. A. Jones 133

To Sidney Colvin 134

To Thomas Stevenson 135

To Sidney Golvin 136

To the Same 137

To J. A. Symonds 138

To Edmund Gosse 140

To W. H. Low 142

To P. G. Hamerton 143

To W. E. Henley 146

To the Same 147

To William Archer 147

To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell 149

To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin 150

To the Same 151

To C. Howard Carrington 152

To Katharine de Mattos 152

To W. H. Low 153

To W. E. Henley 155

To William Archer 156

To Thomas Stevenson 159

To Henry James 160

To William Archer 161

To the Same 163

To W. H. Low 166

To Mrs. de Mattos 167

To Alison Cunningham 167

To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 168

To W. H. Low 169

To Edmund Gosse 173

To James Payn 176

To W. H. Low 177

To Charles J. Guthrie 178

To Thomas Stevenson 179

To C. W. Stoddard 180

To Edmund Gosse 181

To J. A. Symonds 183

To F. W. H. Myers 184

To W. H. Low 185

To Sidney Colvin 186

To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin 187

To Sidney Colvin 189

To Thomas Stevenson 190

To Miss Monroe 191

To Sidney Colvin 192

To Miss Monroe 193

To Alison Cunningham 196

To R. A. M. Stevenson 196

To the Same 198

To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 199

To Charles Baxter 200

To Alison Cunningham 200

To Thomas Stevenson 201

To Alison Cunningham 202

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 202

To T. Watts-Dunton 203

To Alison Cunningham 204

To Frederick Locker-Lampson 205

To the Same 206

To the Same 207

To the Same 208

To Auguste Rodin 209

To Sidney Colvin 210

To Lady Taylor 211

To the Same 213

To Henry James 214

To Frederick Locker-Lampson 215

To Henry James 215

To Auguste Rodin 216

To W. H. Low 217

To Sidney Colvin 219

To Alison Cunningham 220

To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin 221

To the Same 225

To Miss Rawlinson 227

To Sidney Colvin 228

To Sir Walter Simpson 229

To W. E. Henley 229

To W. H. Low 230

To Miss Adelaide Boodle 231

To Messrs. Chatto and Windus 231

IX. THE UNITED STATES AGAIN WINTER IN THE ADIRONDACKS

Introductory 233

Letters—

To Sidney Colvin 235

To the Same 236

To Henry James 237

To Sidney Colvin 238

To W. E. Henley 239

To R. A. M. Stevenson 240

To Sir Walter Simpson 242

To Edmund Gosse 244

To W. H. Low 245

To Charles Fairchild 246

To William Archer 247

To W. E. Henley 248

To Henry James 249

To Charles Baxter 251

To Charles Scribner 252

To E. L. Burlingame 253

To the Same 254

To John Addington Symonds 254

To W. E. Henley 257

To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin 258

To Miss Adelaide Boodle 259

To Charles Baxter 260

To Miss Munroe 261

To Henry James 262

To Sidney Colvin 264

To the Same 265

To Miss Adelaide Boodle 267

To Charles Baxter 268

To E. L. Burlingame 268

To William Archer 270

To the Same 272

To the Same 273

To E. L. Burlingame 273

To the Same 274

To Sidney Colvin 275

To the Rev. Dr. Charteris 276

To Edmund Gosse 277

To Henry James 278

To the Rev. Dr. Charteris 279

To S. R. Crockett 280

To Miss Ferrier 282

To Sidney Colvin 283

To Miss Adelaide Boodle 284

To Sidney Colvin 285

To Charles Baxter 286

To Lady Taylor 286

To Homer St. Gaudens 287

To Henry James 288

X. PACIFIC VOYAGES YACHT CASCO—SCHOONER EQUATOR—S.S. JANET NICOLL

Introductory 290

Letters—

To Sidney Colvin 293

To Charles Baxter 294

To Sidney Colvin 295

To Charles Baxter 296

To Miss Adelaide Boodle 297

To Sidney Colvin 298

To William and Thomas Archer 300

To Charles Baxter 301

To the Same 303

To John Addington Symonds 304

To Thomas Archer 305

[Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to Sidney Colvin] 308

To Sidney Colvin 316

To E. L. Burlingame 319

To Charles Baxter 322

To R. A. M. Stevenson 323

To Marcel Schwob 327

To Charles Baxter 327

To Sidney Colvin 329

[Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to Mrs. Sitwell] 331

To Henry James 334

To Sidney Colvin 336

To E. L. Burlingame 338

To Miss Adelaide Boodle 339

To Charles Baxter 343

To the Same 344

To W. H. Low 345

[Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to Sidney Colvin] 347

To Mrs. R. L. Stevenson 349

To Sidney Colvin 353

To James Payn 355

To Lady Taylor 357

To Sidney Colvin 357

To the Same 362

To E. L. Burlingame 367

To Charles Baxter 369

To Lady Taylor 372

To Dr. Scott 374

To Charles Baxter 375

To E. L. Burlingame 377

To James Payn 381

To Henry James 382

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 383

To Charles Baxter 384

To Sidney Colvin 385

To E. L. Burlingame 387

To Charles Baxter 392

To E. L. Burlingame 394

To Henry James 396

To Marcel Schwob 397

To Andrew Lang 399

To Miss Adelaide Boodle 401

To Mrs. Charles Fairchild 403