44 Andrew Lang, Adventures Among Books (London, 1903), p.51
45 H.J. Moors, With Stevenson in Samoa (London, 1911), p.2
46 Horatio Brown to W.G. Lockett, quoted in W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934), p.245
47 Phyllis Grosskurth (ed.), The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds (London, 1984), p.187
48 Quoted in Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (London, 2003), p.128
49 Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters, The Letters of J.A. Symonds (Detroit, 1967–69), vol. 3, p.120
50 Letters, vol. 3, p.313
51 Ibid., p.131
52 FS to Dora Williams, December 1880, MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3834
53 Letters, vol. 3, p.153
54 Ibid., p.151
55 Ibid., p.161
56 Ibid., pp.161–2
57 Collected Poems, p.93
58 MS Yale, B5980. It was published as a separate poem by the Boston Bibliophile Society and reprinted in later collections, including Janet Adam Smith’s Collected Poems, though she admits in her notes (p. 526) that she had not consulted the manuscript
59 Letters, vol. 3, p.161
60 Ibid., p.164
61 Ibid., pp.183–4
62 Vailima, vol. 11, p.171
63 Ibid., p.30
64 NLS Balfour, 9895, f76
65 Letters, vol. 3, pp.200–1
66 Ibid., p.197
67 Portrait, pp. 31, 32
68 Letters, vol. 3, p.186
69 Ibid., p.222
70 Quoted in Ann Thwaite, Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape (Oxford, 1985), p.217
71 Ibid.
72 Letters, vol. 3, p.224
73 Ibid., pp.224–5
74 FS to Dora Williams, September 1881, MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3834
75 ‘My First Book’, Vailima, vol. 5, p.xxvi
76 Ibid., p.xxiv
77 Treasure Island, Chapter 27, Vailima, vol. 5, p.239
78 Ibid., Chapter 8, p.75
79 Ibid.
80 Maixner, p.235
81 Vailima, vol. 5, p.xxviii
8 : UXORIOUS BILLY
1 Letters, vol. 3, p.242
2 Portrait, p.37
3 Evan Charteris (ed.), The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London, 1931), pp.284–5
4 Letters, vol. 3, p.329
5 WEH to CB, 15 April 1882, quoted in ibid., p.317 nI
6 Ibid., pp.263–4
7 Ibid., p.325
8 Vailima, vol. 12, p.144
9 Letters, vol. 3, p.271
10 W.G. Lockett, Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos (London, 1934), p.102
11 Ibid., p.103
12 Vailima, vol. 3, p.470
13 Letters, vol. 3, p.322
14 Letters, vol. 4, p.2
15 Ibid., p.38
16 Damian Atkinson (ed.), The Selected Letters of W.E. Henley (Aldershot, 2000), pp.112–13
17 Ibid.
18 Letters, vol. 4, p.59
19 Ibid., p. 58
20 Ibid., p.53n
21 Ibid., p.55
22 Ibid., p.46
23 Ibid., p.55
24 Ibid., p.76
25 Ibid., pp.84–5
26 ‘From a Railway Carriage’, Collected Poems, p.44
27 Collected Poems, p.32
28 Letters, vol. 4, p. 195
29 Ibid., p. 106
30 Ibid., p.97
31 Ibid., p. 162
32 Ibid., p. 163
33 Vailima, vol. 5, p.xix
34 Ibid., p.xx
35 Letters, vol. 4, p.115
36 Ibid., p.194
37 Ibid., p.115
38 Vailima, vol. 5, p.496
39 Ibid., p.562
40 Ibid., pp.536–7
41 Ibid., p.525
42 Ibid., p.430
43 Ibid., p.458
44 Ibid., p.325
45 Ibid., p.411
46 Ibid., p.325
47 Letters, vol. 4, p.212
48 Evan Charteris (ed.), The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London, 1931), pp.180–1
49 Maixner, p. 197
50 Letters, vol. 4, p.246
51 Swearingen, p.66
52 Letters, vol. 4, pp.119–20
53 Ibid., p.228
54 21 May 1883, ibid., p.54
55 n.d., marked ‘late spring 1884, Hyères’ in another hand. MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3852 (see 3834). The conjectural dating of this manuscript letter is probably a bit late, as the next letter – also from Hyères – announces the child’s birth, and the Stevensons were only there between February 1883 and June 1884
56 Hyères, n.d., ‘spring 1884’, MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3852 (see 3834)
57 Letters, vol. 3, p.153n
58 Collected Poems, p.329
59 MS Yale, B6257
60 Ibid.
61 Letters, vol. 4, p.87
62 Ibid., p.154
63 Ibid., p.162
65 Ibid., p.159
66 Ibid., p.158
67 Ibid., p.166
68 Mrs M.L. Ferrier to RLS, MS Yale, 4469
69 Letters, vol. 4, p.183
70 Ibid., p.238
71 Ibid., p.241
72 Ibid., p.237
73 Ibid., p.234
74 Ibid., p.53n
75 Ibid., p.240
76 Ibid., p.249
77 Ibid., pp.249–50
78 MS Yale, Stevenson notebook 59; 6536, 6504
79 Letters, vol. 4, pp.293–4
80 Ibid., p.309
81 Ibid., p.102
9 : A WEEVIL IN A BISCUIT
1 Lucas, p.158
2 Letters, vol. 5, p.80
3 Letters, vol. 7, p.280
4 Letters, vol. 5, p.27
5 Ibid., p.4
6 Ibid., p.23
7 Ibid., p.49 n8
8 Vailima, vol. 6, pp.267–8
9 Letters, vol. 5, p.4 n3
10 H. Pearson, Beerbohm Tree (London, 1956), pp.48–9
11 Vailima, vol. 6, p.181
12 Letters, vol. 5, p.101
13 Ibid., p.20 n2
14 Arthur Wing Pinero, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Dramatist (New York, 1914), p.30
15 Ibid., p.63
16 Portrait, p.57
17 Letters, vol. 5, p.4 n3
18 Ibid.
19 Vailima, vol. 7, p.29
20 Ibid., pp.30–1
21 Ibid., p.209
22 Letters, vol. 5, p.81
23 Maixner, p.221
24 Letters, vol. 4, p.245
25 FS to MIS, 29 July 1885, MS Silverado
26 Letters, vol. 5, p.123
27 William Archer, quoted in Hammerton, p.76
28 FS to GB, 5 January 1901, NLS Balfour, 9895, f130
29 FS to MIS, 8 October 1885, MS Silverado
30 Letters, vol. 5, p.123
31 Leon Edel, The Life of Henry James (London, 1953–72), vol. 3, p.87
32 Letters, vol. 5, p.137
33 John Singer Sargent to RLS, ?January 1886, MS Yale, 5427
34 Ibid.
35 HJ to T.S. Perry, 14 September 1879, Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James, Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1974–84), vol. 2, p.225
36 Letters, vol. 5, p.9
37 Vailima, vol. 12, p.212
38 Ibid., p.213
39 Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James, Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1974–84), vol. 3, p.57
40 Letters, vol. 5, p.42
41 Ibid., p.89
42 Quoted in Leon Edel, The Life of Henry James (London, 1953–72), vol.3, p.70
43 FS to MIS, April/May 1885, MS Silverado
44 Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James, Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1974–84), vol. 3, p.495
45 Frank McLynn, Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography (London, 1993), P.246
46 Leon Edel (ed.), The Diary of Alice James (New York, 1964), p.93
47 Letters, vol. 5, p.196
48 Ibid., p.340
49 Vailima, vol. 11, p.134
50 Ibid.
51 Ibid., p.145
52 Ibid., p.146
53 Ibid., p.150
54 Ibid., p.155
55 Letters, vol. 5, p.151 n5
56 Ibid., p.151
57 Ibid., p.221
58 Fyodor Dostoievsky, Crime and Punishment (trans. David McDuff), p. 114
59 Vailima, vol. 11, pp.133–4
60 G.K. Chesterton, Robert Louis Stevenson (London, 1927)
61 Hammerton, p.77
62 Letters, vol. 5, p.121
63 Adelaide Boodle, RLS and his Sine Qua Non (London, 1926), p.42
64 Ibid., p.11
65 Letters, vol. 5, p.339
10 : THE DREAMER
1 Letters, vol. 5, p.126
2 Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate (eds), The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy (Oxford, 1978–88), pp.146–7
3 MS Yale, B3782
4 Hammerton, p.318
5 NLS, MS9895, 157v–158v
6 Portrait, p.63
7 Ibid., p.64
8 Ibid., pp.64, 65
9 Ibid., pp.66–7
10 Letters, vol. 5, p.216
11 Hammerton, pp.84–5
12 Vailima, vol. 12, p.249
13 Ibid., p.238
14 Ibid., pp.246–7
15 Ibid.
16 Tusitala, vol. 5, p.xvi
17 Maixner, p.200
18 Vailima, vol. 7, p.426
19 Ibid., pp.429–30
20 Ibid., p.432
21 Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters, The Letters of J.A. Symonds (Detroit, 1967–69), vol. 3, pp.120–1
22 C.C. Abbott (ed.), Letters of G.M. Hopkins to Robert Bridges (Oxford, 1955), p.236
23 Elaine Showalter, Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (New York, 1990; London, 1991), pp.107, 110
24 Wayne Koestenbaum, Double Talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration (New York and London, 1989), p.147
25 Karl Miller, Doubles: Studies in Literary History (Oxford, 1985), p.216
26 Robert Mighall (ed.), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (London, 2002), p.160
27 Ibid., p.155
28 Letters, vol. 6, p.56
29 Vailima, vol. 7, p.366
30 Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions, ed. Eliot Weinberger (London, 1999), p.260
31 Daniel Balderston, ‘Borges’s Frame of Reference: The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson’ (Princeton University PhD thesis, 1981), p.332
32 MS Yale, B3828
33 Balfour, vol. 2, pp.17–18
34 In Robert Louis Stevenson and Romantic Tradition (Princeton, 1966)
35 Letters, vol. 5, p.130
36 Vailima, vol. 12, p.355
37 Letters, vol. 5, p.404
38 Wayne Koestenbaum, Double Talk (New York and London, 1989), p.145
39 Letters, vol. 5, p.182
40 See facsimile in Barry Menikoff’s edition of Kidnapped (San Marino, Cal., 1999)
41 Ibid., p.216
42 Ibid., pp.46, 64
43 Collected Poems, pp.71–2
44 Letters, vol. 6, p.48
45 Letters, vol. 5, p.236
46 Ibid., p.246
47 MS Yale, vault Stevenson, box 2, vol 4, folder D
48 Letters, vol. 5, p.138
49 Ibid., p.390
50 Portrait, p.70
51 Ibid., pp.70, 68
52 MS Yale, vault Stevenson, box 8, folder 120
53 Collected Poems, p.282. The published poem represents the last six lines of a much longer, unpublished work
54 Flora Masson, Victorians All (Edinburgh, 1931), p.107
55 Letters, vol. 5, p.418
56 FS to MIS, 23 June 1887, MS Silverado, partly published in Letters, vol. 5, pp.428–9
57 Letters, vol. 5, p.445
58 Ibid., p.443
11 : BELOW ZERO
1 Tusitala, vol. 33, p.141
2 Letters, vol. 6, p.5
3 SC to Edmund Gosse, 17 August 1887, BL Ashley 5057
4 From Saranac, p.4
5 Ibid.
6 Letters, vol. 6, p.6
7 From Saranac, p.6
8 Letters, vol. 6, p.17
9 Portrait, p.77
10 W.H. Low, A Chronicle of Friendships 1873–1900 (London, 1908), p.372
11 Hammerton, p.85
12 MS Bancroft, Edgar M. Kahn, ‘Some Aspects of Robert Louis Stevenson’ (1955), p.4
13 S.S. McClure, My Autobiography (London, 1914), p.188
14 Letters, vol. 6, p.103
15 Ibid., p.18
16 Baxter Letters, p.178
17 Elsie Noble Caldwell, Last Witness for Robert Louis Stevenson (Norman, Oklahoma, 1960), p.12
18 Alan E. Guttmacher and J.R. Callahan, ‘Did Robert Louis Stevenson Have Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia?’, American Journal of Medical Genetics, 91 (2000)
19 MIS, unpublished diary, 30 January 1868, MS Yale, B 7304
20 Edward L. Trudeau, Autobiography (Philadelphia, 1916)
21 Portrait, p.74
22 Ibid., p.75
23 Vailima, vol. 14, pp.15–16
24 Ibid., pp.360–1
25 Letters, vol. 6, p.277
26 It is printed as a footnote in ibid., p.99
27 S.S. McClure, My Autobiography (London, 1914), pp.193–4
28 Letters, vol. 6, p.129 n1
29 Ibid., p.172
30 Ibid.
31 Baxter Letters, p.202
32 Letters, vol. 6, p.130
33 Ibid., pp. 132–4
34 Ibid., p.147
35 Ibid., p.136
36 Ibid., p.169
37 Ibid., p.168
38 Published in ibid., pp.163–5
39 Ibid., pp.164–5
40 Ibid.; p.182
41 Ibid., p.167
42 Ibid., p.176
43 Ibid., p.177
44 RLS to Will Low, April 1887, Letters, vol. 5, p.394
45 From Saranac, p.26
46 Letters, vol. 6, p.38
47 Ibid., p.65
48 Portrait, p.80
49 S.S. McClure, My Autobiography (London, 1914), p188
50 FS to RLS, San Francisco, 1888, MS Yale, vault Stevenson, 3744
12 : ONA
1 Arthur Johnstone, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific (London, 1905), p.18
2 From Saranac, p. 53
3 Ibid., pp.67–8
4 Letters, vol. 2, p.145
5 Justin Kaplan, Mr Clemens and Mark Twain (London, 1967), p.388
6 Letters, vol. 6, p.206 n2
7 From Saranac, p.61
8 Letters, vol. 6, p.276
9 Arthur Johnstone, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific (London, 1905), p.23
10 Ibid., p.19
11 Vailima, vol. 16, p.15
12 Ibid., p.16
13 Ibid., p.19
14 From Saranac, p.76
15 Vailima, vol. 16, p.19
16 Ibid., p.25
17 Ibid., p.20
18 From Saranac, p.81
19 Ibid., p.83
20 Ibid., p.154
21 Ibid., p.115
22 Vailima, vol. 16, p.62
23 Ibid., p.44
24 Ibid., p.184
25 Ibid., p.26
26 11 January 1892, quoted in John Connell, W.E. Henley (London, 1949), pp.234–5
27 The Works of W.E. Henley (London, 1908), vol. 1, pp.181–2
28 Ibid., p.229
29 FS to SC, 4 December 1888, quoted in Letters, vol. 6, p.229
30 From Saranac, 6 November
31 Letters, vol. 6, p.221
32 Arthur Johnstone, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific (London, 1905), p.46
33 Ibid.
34 Letters, vol. 6, p.243
35 Ibid., p.293
36 Ibid., pp.285–6
37 Ibid., p.296
38 Ibid., p.265n
39 Field, p.231
40 Letters, vol.
6, p.249
41 ICR, p.212
42 Letters, vol. 6, p.311
43 ICR, p.222
44 Letters, vol. 6, p.311
45 Ibid., pp.334–5
46 Vailima, vol. 16, p.270
47 Ibid., pp.275–6
48 Ibid., p.312
49 Ibid., pp.279–80
50 Ibid.
51 Ibid., p.345
52 Ibid., p.347
53 Letters, vol. 6, p.303
54 Ibid.
55 Vailima, vol. 16, p.359
56 Ibid., p.368
57 Letters, vol. 6, p.329
58 Ibid.
59 Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters, The Letters of J.A. Symonds (Detroit, 1967–69), vol. 3, p.410
60 See Maixner, p.354
61 Ibid., p.360
62 Ibid., p.335
63 Letters, vol. 6, p.330
64 Vailima, vol. 17, pp.597–8
65 Ibid.
66 Ibid., pp.170–1
67 Balfour, vol. 2, pp.33–4
68 Vailima, vol. 17, p.297
69 Ibid., p.555
70 Ibid., pp.402–3
71 Ibid., p.405
72 Portrait, p. 112
13 : TUSI TALA
1 W.E. Clarke, Reminiscences of Robert Louis Stevenson (London Missionary Society pamphlet, n.d.)
2 ICR, p.224
3 See Mehew’s notes on both companies in Letters, vol. 6, pp. 251 n3 and 346 n4
4 Ibid., p.251
5 Ibid., p.381
6 J.W. Davidson, Samoa mo Samoa: The Emergence of the Independent State of Western Samoa (Melbourne, 1967), p.96
7 H.J. Moors, With Stevenson in Samoa (London, 1911), p.2
8 Letters, vol. 6, p.381
9 Colvin, p.145
10 Evan Charteris (ed.), The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London, 1931), pp.232–3
11 Colvin, p.149
12 Letters, vol. 6, p. 373
13 Ibid.
14 Vailima, vol. 15, pp.481–2
15 Ibid., p.488
16 Field, p.243
17 San Francisco Examiner, 17 May 1890, quoted in Letters, vol. 6, p.420 n3
18 Reprinted in H.W. Kent, Dr Hyde and Mr Stevenson (Rutland, Vt, 1973), Appendix E
19 Letters, vol. 6, p.376
20 Ibid., p.409
21 Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson, The Cruise of the Janet Nichol (London, 1915), p.2
22 Letters, vol. 6, p.388
23 Ibid., p.403
24 Ibid., p. 389
25 Ibid., p.398
26 Letters, vol. 7, p.80
27 Ibid., p.15
28 Ibid., p.24
29 Ibid., p.22
30 ICR, p.265
31 Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson, Our Samoan Adventure, ed. Charles Neider (London, 1956), p.61
32 J.C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels et al. (eds), The Letters of Henry Adams (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1982–88), vol. 3, pp.296–7
33 Ibid., pp.851–2
34 Letters, vol. 7, p.27
35 Ibid., p.26