The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition. Volume 23

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Robert Louis Stevenson. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition. Volume 23

INTRODUCTION

THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 1868-1882

I. STUDENT DAYS AT EDINBURGH

To Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Churchill Babington

To Alison Cunningham

To Charles Baxter

To Charles Baxter

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Charles Baxter

To Charles Baxter

To Charles Baxter

II. STUDENT DAYS — Continued

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Charles Baxter

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Sitwell

III. STUDENT DAYS — Concluded

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

IV. ADVOCATE AND AUTHOR

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Charles Baxter

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Mrs. de Mattos

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To W. E. Henley

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Sitwell

To A. Patchett Martin

To A. Patchett Martin

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To Thomas Stevenson

To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To W. E. Henley

To Charles Baxter

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To W. E. Henley

To Edmund Gosse

To W. E. Henley

To Miss Jane Balfour

To Edmund Gosse

To Sidney Colvin

To Edmund Gosse

V. THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To W. E. Henley

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To Edmund Gosse

To W. E. Henley

To W. E. Henley

To Sidney Colvin

To P.G. Hamerton

To Edmund Gosse

To Sidney Colvin

To Edmund Gosse

To Sidney Colvin

To W. E. Henley

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To W. E. Henley

To W. E. Henley

To Sidney Colvin

To Edmund Gosse

To Charles Baxter

To Professor Meiklejohn

To W. E. Henley

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To J. W. Ferrier

To Edmund Gosse

To Dr. W. Bamford

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To Sidney Colvin

To C. W. Stoddard

To Sidney Colvin

VI. ALPINE WINTERS AND HIGHLAND SUMMERS

To Sidney Colvin

To Charles Baxter

To Isobel Strong

To A. G. Dew-Smith

To Thomas Stevenson

To Sidney Colvin

To Edmund Gosse

To Edmund Gosse

To Charles Warren Stoddard

To Mr. And Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Sidney Colvin

To Horatio F. Brown

To Horatio F. Brown

To Horatio F. Brown

To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Edmund Gosse

To Sidney Colvin

To Professor Æneas Mackay

To Professor Æneas Mackay

To Sidney Colvin

To Edmund Gosse

To Charles J. Guthrie

To Charles J. Guthrie

To Edmund Gosse

To P. G. Hamerton

To Sidney Colvin

To W. E. Henley

To W. E. Henley

To Sidney Colvin

To Dr. Alexander Japp

To Mrs. Sitwell

To Edmund Gosse

To Edmund Gosse

To Edmund Gosse

To W. E. Henley

To Dr. Alexander Japp

To W. E. Henley

To W. E. Henley

To Thomas Stevenson

To Edmund Gosse

To W. E. Henley

To P. G. Hamerton

To Charles Baxter

To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

To Edmund Gosse

To Sidney Colvin

To Alison Cunningham

To Charles Baxter

To W. E. Henley

To W. E. Henley

To Alexander Ireland

To Mrs. Gosse

To Sidney Colvin

To Edmund Gosse

To Dr. Alexander Japp

To Dr. Alexander Japp

To W. E. Henley

To Mrs. T. Stevenson

To R. A. M. Stevenson

To Trevor Haddon

To Edmund Gosse

To Trevor Haddon

To Edmund Gosse

To W. E. Henley

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The following section consists chiefly of extracts from the correspondence and journals addressed by Louis Stevenson, as a lad of eighteen to twenty-two, to his father and mother during summer excursions to the Scottish coast or to the Continent. There exist enough of them to fill a volume; but it is not in letters of this kind to his family that a young man unbosoms himself most freely, and these are perhaps not quite devoid of the qualities of the guide-book and the descriptive exercise. Nevertheless they seem to me to contain enough signs of the future master-writer, enough of character, observation, and skill in expression, to make a certain number worth giving by way of an opening chapter to the present book. Among them are interspersed four or five of a different character addressed to other correspondents, and chiefly to his lifelong friend and intimate, Mr. Charles Baxter.

On both sides of the house Stevenson came of interesting stock. His grandfather was Robert Stevenson, civil engineer, highly distinguished as the builder of the Bell Rock lighthouse. By this Robert Stevenson, his three sons, and two of his grandsons now living, the business of civil engineers in general, and of official engineers to the Commissioners of Northern Lights in particular, has been carried on at Edinburgh with high credit and public utility for almost a century. Thomas Stevenson, the youngest of the three sons of the original Robert, was Robert Louis Stevenson’s father. He was a man not only of mark, zeal, and inventiveness in his profession, but of a strong and singular personality; a staunch friend and sagacious adviser, trenchant in judgment and demonstrative in emotion, outspoken, dogmatic, – despotic, even, in little things, but withal essentially chivalrous and soft-hearted; apt to pass with the swiftest transition from moods of gloom or sternness to those of tender or freakish gaiety, and commanding a gift of humorous and figurative speech second only to that of his more famous son.

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By the way, that is a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Your old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to keep their monstrous bodies fresh withal. A shrewd country attorney, in a turned white neckcloth and rusty blacks, would just take one of these Agamemnons and Ajaxes quietly by his beautiful, strong arm, trot the unresisting statue down a little gallery of legal shams, and turn the poor fellow out at the other end, “naked, as from the earth he came.” There is more latent life, more of the coiled spring in the sleeping dog, about a recumbent figure of Michael Angelo’s than about the most excited of Greek statues. The very marble seems to wrinkle with a wild energy that we never feel except in dreams.

I think this letter has turned into a sermon, but I had nothing interesting to talk about.

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