Volume 25 — STEVENSON

VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE

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 XI—XIV

CONTENTS

XI. LIFE IN SAMOA PART I.—THE OLD BUCCANEER

PAGE

Introductory 3

Letters—

To Sidney Colvin 9

To E. L. Burlingame 24

To Sidney Colvin 25

To E. L. Burlingame 32

To Sidney Colvin 34

To Henry James 43

To Rudyard Kipling 46

To Sidney Colvin 48

To Marcel Schwob 51

To Charles Baxter 53

To Sidney Colvin 54

To H. B. Baildon 56

To Sidney Colvin 58

To the Same 66

To W. Craibe Angus 69

To Edmund Gosse 71

To Miss Rawlinson 74

To Sidney Colvin 76

To Miss Adelaide Boodle 80

To Charles Baxter 82

To Sidney Colvin 83

To E. L. Burlingame 86

To W. Craibe Angus 87

To H. C. Ide 88

To Sidney Colvin 90

To the Same 94

To the Same 102

To Henry James 108

To E. L. Burlingame 110

To the Same 111

To Sidney Colvin 112

To W. Craibe Angus 118

To Miss Annie H. Ide 118

To Charles Baxter 120

To Sidney Colvin 121

To Fred Orr 127

To E. L. Burlingame 128

To Henry James 130

To Sidney Colvin 132

XII. LIFE IN SAMOA—continued SECOND YEAR AT VAILIMA

Introductory 144

Letters—

To E. L. Burlingame 146

To Miss Adelaide Boodle 147

To Sidney Colvin 152

To J. M. Barrie 154

To Sidney Colvin 156

To William Morris 162

To Mrs. Charles Fairchild 163

To Sidney Colvin 166

To E. L. Burlingame 174

To the Rev. S. J. Whitmee 174

To Charles Baxter 177

To Sidney Colvin 178

To the Same 193

To T. W. Dover 209

To E. L. Burlingame 210

To Sidney Colvin 211

To Charles Baxter 213

To W. E. Henley 214

To E. L. Burlingame 215

To Andrew Lang 216

To Miss Adelaide Boodle 217

To Sidney Colvin 221

To the Countess of Jersey 228

To the Same 229

To Sidney Colvin 230

To Mrs. Charles Fairchild 240

To the Children in the Cellar 243

To Sidney Colvin 249

To Gordon Browne 252

To Miss Morse 253

To Miss Taylor 254

To E. L. Burlingame 257

To Sidney Colvin 258

To J. M. Barrie 264

To E. L. Burlingame 266

To Lieutenant Eeles 267

To Charles Baxter 270

To Sidney Colvin 271

To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin 273

To Henry James 274

To J. M. Barrie 276

To Charles Baxter 278

XIII. LIFE IN SAMOA—continued THIRD YEAR AT VAILIMA

Introductory 280

Letters—

To Sidney Colvin 282

To Charles Baxter 288

To Sidney Colvin 289

To the Same 291

To Charles Baxter 292

To Sidney Colvin 294

To A. Conan Doyle 299

To Sidney Colvin 299

To S. R. Crockett 305

To Augustus St. Gaudens 308

To Sidney Colvin 310

To Edmund Gosse 317

To Henry James 320

To Sidney Colvin 324

To James S. Stevenson 334

To Henry James 335

To A. Conan Doyle 336

To Charles Baxter 337

To Sidney Colvin 338

To A. Conan Doyle 339

To Augustus St. Gaudens 341

To James S. Stevenson 342

To George Meredith 343

To Charles Baxter 345

To Sidney Colvin 347

To the Same 352

To J. Horne Stevenson 357

To John P——n 358

To Russell P——n 359

To Alison Cunningham 359

To Charles Baxter 360

To J. M. Barrie 362

To R. Le Gallienne 364

To Mrs. A. Baker 366

To Henry James 367

To Sidney Colvin 367

XIV. LIFESAMOA—concluded FOURTH YEAR AT VAILIMA—THE END

Introductory 373

Letters—

To Charles Baxter 376

To H. B. Baildon 377

To W. H. Low 378

To Sidney Colvin 380

To H. B. Baildon 381

To Sidney Colvin 382

To J. H. Bates 384

To William Archer 384

To Sidney Colvin 386

To W. B. Yeats 390

To George Meredith 390

To Charles Baxter 392

To Mrs. Sitwell 393

To Charles Baxter 394

To Sidney Colvin 396

To R. A. M. Stevenson 398

To Sidney Colvin 404

To Henry James 406

To Marcel Schwob 409

To A. St. Gaudens 410

To Miss Adelaide Boodle 410

To Mrs. A. Baker 413

To Sidney Colvin 414

To J. M. Barrie 416

To Sidney Colvin 422

To Dr. Bakewell 424

To James Payn 425

To Miss Middleton 428

To A. Conan Doyle 429

To Sidney Colvin 430

To Charles Baxter 433

To R. A. M. Stevenson 434

To Sir Herbert Maxwell 440

To Sidney Colvin 441

To Alison Cunningham 445

To James Payn 446

To Sidney Colvin 448

To Professor Meiklejohn 450

To Lieutenant Eeles 451

To Sir Herbert Maxwell 453

To Andrew Lang 453

To Edmund Gosse 454

Appendix I—Account of the Death and Burial of R. L. Stevenson, by Lloyd Osbourne 457

Appendix II—Address of R. L. Stevenson to the Chiefs on the Opening of the Road of Gratitude, October 1894 462

Index to the Letters : Volumes XXIII-XXV 469

Index to Volumes I—XXII 509