Title: Selected letters of Robert Louis Stevenson /
Authors: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894; Mehew, Ernest.
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Stevenson, Robert Louis, Correspondence.; Authors, Scottish Correspondence
Abstract: "This selection prints, in whole or in part, 317 letters that are representative of each period of Stevenson's mature life."--Jacket.
Contents: I. Student Days in Edinburgh: Engineering and Law 1868-73 -- II. Cockfield Rectory and New Friends July-October 1873 -- III. Ordered South: Mentone October 1873-April 1874 -- IV. Literature, Law and Mrs Sitwell April 1874-July 1876 -- V. France and Fanny Osbourne: Progress as an Author August 1876-July 1879 -- VI. The Amateur Emigrant: America and Marriage August 1879-August 1880 -- VII. Summers in Scotland and Winters at Davos August 1880-September 1882 -- VIII. Ordered South Again: Marseilles and Hyeres October 1882-June 1884 -- IX. Three Years in Bournemouth July 1884-August 1887 -- X. Second Visit to America: The Quarrel with Henley August 1887-June 1888 -- XI. The Cruise of the Casco: The Marquesas, Paumotus, Tahiti July 1888-January 1889 -- XII. Five Months in Hawaii January-June 1889 -- XIII. Pacific Voyages: The Cruise of the Equator; Samoa and Sydney; the Cruise of the Janet Nicoll June 1889-September 1890 -- XIV. The First Two Years at Vailima September 1890-December 1892 -- XV. The Last Two Years at Vailima January 1893-December 1894 -- Epilogue: The Death of Stevenson.