MARSEILLES AND HYÈRES LETTERS:— To the Editor of the _New York 251 Tribune_ To R. A. M. Stevenson 252 To Thomas Stevenson 253 To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 254 To Charles Baxter 254 To Alison Cunningham 256 To W. E. Henley 257 To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 261 To Thomas Stevenson 262 To Mrs. Sitwell 263 To Edmund Gosse 265 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 266 To the Same 267 To Edmund Gosse 268 To the Same 269 To W. E. Henley 270 To the Same 271 To the Same 272 To the Same 273 To the Same 274 To Alison Cunningham 275 To W. E. Henley 277 To Edmund Gosse 278 To W. E. Henley 279 To Edmund Gosse 283 To Sidney Colvin 284 To W. H. Low 286 To R. A. M. Stevenson 288 To Thomas Stevenson 291 To W. H. Low 292 To W. E. Henley 294 To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 295 To Sidney Colvin 296 To Mrs. Milne 297 To Miss Ferrier 299 To W. H. Low 300 To Thomas Stevenson 301 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 302 To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 303 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 304 To Sidney Colvin 305 To Mr. Dick 308 To Cosmo Monkhouse 310 To Edmund Gosse 312 To Miss Ferrier 313 To W. H. Low 314 To Thomas Stevenson 315 To Cosmo Monkhouse 316 To W. E. Henley 318 To Edmund Gosse 319 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 320 To Sidney Colvin 321 VII
LIFE AT BOURNEMOUTH LETTERS:— To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 328 To W. E. Henley 328 To the Rev. Professor Lewis Campbell 330 To Andrew Chatto 331 To W. H. Low 332 To Thomas Stevenson 334 To W. E. Henley 335 To Thomas Stevenson 335 To Charles Baxter 337 To the Same 337 To Miss Ferrier 338 To Edmund Gosse 339 To Austin Dobson 340 To Henry James 341 To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson 343 To W. E. Henley 344 To the Same 345 To H. A. Jones 346 To Sidney Colvin 346 To Thomas Stevenson 347 To Sidney Colvin 348 To the Same 349 To J. A. Symonds 350 To Edmund Gosse 352 To W. H. Low 354 To P. G. Hamerton 356 To William Archer 358 To Mrs. Fleeming Jenkin 359 To the Same 360 To W. H. Low 361 To W. E. Henley 363 To William Archer 364 To Thomas Stevenson 367 To Henry James 368 To William Archer 369 To the Same 371 To W. H. Low 374
_Frontispiece_—PORTRAIT OF R. L. STEVENSON, _æt._ 35 _From a photograph by_ Mr. LLOYD OSBOURNE
ONE day in the autumn of 1888, in the island of Tahiti, during an illness which he supposed might be his last, Stevenson put into the hands of his stepson, Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, a sealed paper with the request that it should be opened after his death. He recovered, as every one knows, and had strength enough to enjoy six years more of active life and work in the Pacific Islands. When the end came, and the paper was opened, it was found to contain, among other things, the expression of his wish that I should be asked to prepare for publication ‘a selection of his letters and a sketch of his life.’ The journal letters written to myself from his Samoan home, subsequently to the date of the request, offered the readiest material towards fulfilling promptly a part at least of the duty thus laid upon me; and a selection from these was accordingly published in the autumn following his death. { xv}