INDEX TO THE LETTERS

[For short Index to Vols. I.-XXII., see pp. 509-519.]


“Abbé Coignard” (France), xxv. [409], [410]

Academy, The, xxiii. intro. xvii., 166; contributions to, xxiii. 184, xxv. [364]

“Across the Plains,” xxv. [123] & n. 1, xxv. [207], [224], [301] n. 1; dedication, xxv. [127] & n. 1, xxv. [323] & n. 1; inception, xxv. [97] & n. 1

“Actor’s Wife,” projected, xxiii. 308

Adams, Henry, historian, xxv. [4], [29], [41], [43], [45]

“Address to the Unco Guid” (Burns), xxiii. 225

“Adela Chart” (“The Marriages,” H. James), xxv. [108]-9, [110]

“Adelaïde,” song (Beethoven), xxiii. 64

Adirondack Mountains, stay in, xxiv. 234, 306 et seq.

Admiral Benbow inn (Treasure Island), xxiii. 327

“Admiral Guinea,” play (with Henley), xxiii. 327; xxiv. 106, 119, 120, 146, 147; xxv. [447]

“Admiral,” the (Story of a Lie), xxiii. 248, 249; xxiv. 90

“Adventures of David Balfour,” proposed double volume of, xxv. [283], [357], [366]

“Æneid,” reading of, xxiv. 186, 265, 306

“Æsthetic Letters” (Schiller), xxiv. 71

Ahab, King, xxv. [304]

“Ah perfido spergiuro,” song, xxiii. 166

Aitu fafine, an, xxv. [41], [135]

Alabama case, xxiii. 110

“Aladdin” (Pyle), xxv. [164]

Alais, visit to, xxiii. 216

“Alan Breck Stewart,” (“Catriona” and “Kidnapped”), xxiv. 201, 203, xxv. [46], [142]; letter as from, xxv. [46]-8

Alexander, J. W., xxiv. 249, 250; drawing by, of R. L. S., xxiv. 199

Allan Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns, essay on, projected, xxiii. 191, 192, 193

Allen, Grant, ballade by, xxiv. 248

“Amateur Emigrant,” xxiii. 235, 237, 239, 240, 244, 252, 254, 255, 259, 260, 265, 266, 267, 277, 352; xxv. [396]-7 & n. 1, 398, 414, 423

“Amazing Marriage” (Meredith), R. L. S. drawn in, xxv. [344], [390]-1

“Amelia Balfour,” see Jersey, Countess of

American politics, xxiii. 112

Anderson, Dr., xxv. [457]-8

Andrews, Mrs., xxiii. 113

Angelo, Michael, xxiii. 32

Angus, W. Craibe, letters to, xxv. [69], [87], [118]

“Annals of the Persecutions in Scotland” (Aikman), xxiii. 18

Anser, xxiii. 22

Anstey, F., xxv. [275]

Anstruther, at, xxiii. 12

“Antichrist, L’” (Renan), xxv. [304]

“Antiquary, The” (Scott), xxiv. 91

Antwerp, xxiii. 185

Apemama, Gilbert Islands, xxiv. 358

Apia, at, xxiv. 293, 370, 375; xxv. [226]; famous hurricane at, xxiv. 345, 346, 369, 371; xxv. [147], [172]-3, [174]; prisoners at, gratitude shown by, to R. L. S., xxv. [367] et seq.

Apiang, Island, xxiv. 358

Apology, difficulty of, xxiii. 133, 134

“Apology for Idlers,” xxiii. 203, 204, 205, 207, 210

“Appeal to the Clergy of the Church of Scotland,” xxiii. 141, 142

Appin case (Catriona), xxv. [161], [351]

Appin country, in, xxiii. 284

Appin Murder, xxiii. 284, 331, 332; xxv. [161], [351]

Appleton, Dr., xxiii. intro. xvii. 143, 144, 168, 178

“Arblaster” (Black Arrow), xxiii. intro. xx.

Arbroath, Abbot of, xxiii. 29

Archer, Thomas, letter to, xxiv. 305

Archer, William, xxiv. 105, 161, 214; letters to, xxiv. 147, 156, 161, 163, 247, 270, 272, 273, xxv. [384]

Archer, William and Thomas, letter to, xxiv. 300

Areia, chief, xxiv. 315

Arnold, Matthew, xxiii. 15

Arthur’s Seat, xxiii. 71

Artist, the, problem of, xxv. [378]-9

“Art of Literature,” projected, xxiii. 342

“Art of Virtue,” xxiii. 265

Asceticism and Christianity, xxiii. 213

Assurance of Faith, xxiii. 299, 300

“As You Like It” (Shakespeare), xxiv. 96

Atalanta, magazine, contributions to, xxv. [279] & n. 1, [283]

Athenæum, xxiii. 239

“At Last” (Kingsley), xxiv. 101

“Attwater” (Ebb Tide), xxv. [301], [307], [350], [382]

Atua, bombardment of, xxv. [424], [426]

Auckland, visits to, xxv. [30], [34]; xxv. [290], [291], [292]

“Auld Licht Idylls” (Barrie), xxv. [264]

“Auntie’s Skirts” (Child’s Garden of Verse), xxiii. 223

Aurévilly, Barbey d’, works of, xxiv. 83; xxv. [174], [314], [379]

“Ausfürliche Erklarung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche” (Lichtenberg), xxiii. 178

“Autolycus at Court,” xxiii. 170

“Autumn Effect, An,” xxiii. 155, 166; xxv. [397]-8

Autun, xxiii. 216, 219

Avignon, at, xxiii. 77

Ayrshire and Galloway, walking tour in, xxiii. 182, 202


Babington, Mrs. Churchill, xxiii. 54; letter to, xxiii. 30

Babington, Professor Churchill, xxiii. 30, 54; xxiv. 130

Bacon, Sir F., on Time, xxiii. 81

Baildon, H. B., xxv. [56]; letters to, xxv. [56], [377], [381]

Baker, Mrs. A., letters to, xxv. [366], [413]

Baker, Shirley, of Tonga, xxv. [40], [44]

Baker, Sir Samuel, xxv. [175]

Bakewell, Dr., letter to, xxv. [424]

Balfour, Dr. George, xxiii. 330

Balfour, Graham, xxv. [221], [251] & n. 1, [292], [339], [348], [351], [355], [363], [406], [416]; “Life” of R. L. S., by, xxiii. intro. xix.; at Vailima, xxv. [144], [374], [401], [403]

Balfour, James, xxiii. 4

Balfour, Miss Jane, letter to, xxiii. 223

Balfour, Mr., of the Shaws, xxv. [47]

Balfour, Mrs. Lewis, xxiii. 4, 5

Balfour of Burley (Old Mortality), xxiii. 130

Balfour, Rev. Lewis, xxiii. 4

“Balfour’s Letters,” xxv. [293]

“Ballade in Hot Weather” (Henley), xxiv. 248

“Ballades, Rondeaus, etc.” (collected by Gleeson White), xxiv. 248

“Ballads,” xxiv. 380; xxv. [34], [53], [57], [73]

Ballantyne, R., xxiii. intro. xxiii.

Balzac, xxv. [154]; on literary frenzy, xxiii. 173; style of, xxiv. 60

Bamford, Dr. W., xxiii. 271; letter to, xxiii. 272

“Barbara” (Catriona), xxv. [294]-5

Barbizon, visits to, xxiii. 174 et seq., 183

Barmouth, visits to, xxiii. 124, 146

“Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities” (Billing), xxiv. 270

“Barrack Room Ballads” (Kipling), xxv. [48]

“Barrel Organ,” xxiii. 171

Barrie, J. M., appreciation, xxv. [276]-7: letters to, xxv. [154], [264], [276], [362], [416]

Barrie, Mrs. (Margaret Ogilvie), xxv. [417]

Bartholomew, Messrs., xxv. [177]

Basin, Thomas, xxiii. 203 & n. 1

Basselin, Olivier, poems by, xxiii. 193

Bass Rock, xxiii. 207

Bates, —, xxiii. 89

Bates, Edward Hugh Higlee, xxv. [384]

Bates, E. M. G., xxv. [384]

Bates, J. H., letter to, xxv. [384]

Bathgate, the inn maid at, xxiii. 226, 227

“Bauble Shop,” play (H. A. Jones), xxv. [385]

Baudelaire, —, xxiii. 160, 195

Baxter, Charles, xxiii. 3, 159, 174, 285, 336, 341, 353, 356; xxiv. 14, 47, 79; xxv. [174], [240], [266], [273], [306], [357]; letters to, xxiii. 33, 34, 46, 49, 52, 92, 193, 217, 262, 285, 336, 341; xxiv. 14, 121, 122, 200, 251, 260, 268, 286, 294, 296, 301, 303, 322, 327, 343, 344, 369, 375, 384, 392; xxv. [53], [82], [120], [177], [213], [270], [278], [288], [292], [337], [345], [360], [376], [392], [394], [433]; literary agency of, xxiv. 252; scheme of, for “Edinburgh Edition,” xxv. [372] & n. 1, [373]

Baxter, Edmund, xxiv. 394; xxv. [54]; death of, xxv. [433]

Baynes, Professor Spencer, editor “Encyclopædia Britannica,” xxiii, 202

“Beachcombers” (with Lloyd Osbourne), xxiv. 361

“Beach de Mar,” projected xxv. [187]

“Beach of Falesá,” xxv. [5], [20], [25], [76], [97], [102], [103] & n. 1, [120], [122], [131], [138], [147], [152], [221], [224], [235]-6, & n. 1, [239], [240], [250], [266], [272], [274], [284]; illustrations to, xxv. [253]-4, [288]; marriage contract in, xxv. [187] & n. 1; publication, xxv. 1.

“Beau Austin,” play (with Henley), xxiv. 106

Becker, Consul, xxv. [139], [141], [268]

“Becket” (Tennyson), xxv. [385]

“Bedtime” projected, xxiv. 99

“Beggars” (Scribner’s), xxiv. 235, 253; xxv. [97], [209], [301]

Bell Rock, book on, xxiv. 78; xxv. [322]; controversy on, xxiv. 121

Bell, the, in the Vailima woods, xxv. [277]

Ben More, xxiii. 318

Bennet, Dr., xxiii. 84, 101

Bentley, publisher, xxiii. 336, 339, 346

Béranger, article on, xxiii. 186, 191, 193

Bereavement, xxiv. 52

Berlin Convention, xxv. [6]

Berlioz, paper on (Henley), xxiii. 318

“Bête Humaine” (Zola), xxiv. 396; xxv. [319]

“Betteredge” (Moonstone), xxiii. 18

Bickford, Captain, R.N., C.M.G., xxv. [334], [351]

Bitter Creek, xxiii. 234

Black and White, contributions to, xxiii. 286, 337, 341

“Black Arrow,” xxiv. 5, 31, 56, 247, 376, 385 & n. 1; serial issue, xxiv. 55; success, xxiv. 68; suggested French version, xxiv. 398

“Black Canyon” (L. Osbourne), xxiii. 347, 348, 349

Blackie, Professor, xxiii. 28, 30, 306

Blacklock, Consul, xxv. [142]

“Black Man,” xxiii. 308

Blackwood’s Magazine, xxiv. 370

Blair of Blairmyle (see “Young Chevalier”), xxv. [216]

“Blanche Amory” (Thackeray), xxiv. 212

“Bloody Wedding,” projected, xxv. [66], [97]

Board of Trade Offices, xxiv. 87

Boccaccio, xxv. [301]

“Body Snatchers,” xxiii. 308, 316, 321; xxiv. 125, 130; xxv. [397]

“Bondage of Brandon” (Hemming), xxiii. 333

“Bondman, The” (Hall Caine), xxiv. 396-7

Boodle, Miss Adelaide, xxiv. 375; letters to, xxiv. 231, 259, 267, 284, 297, 339, 401; xxv. [80], [147], [217], [243], [248], [410]

“Book, A, of Stories,” projected contents, xxiii. 171

“Book of Verses” (Henley), xxv. [121]

Book Reader, notice of “Prince Otto,” xxiv. 195

Books wanted, xxiii. 36, 332; xxiv. 78, 101, 130, 134, 270, 274, 338; xxv. [111], [112], [174], [215], [271], [287], [293], [346], [361], [392]

Boswell, James, xxiii. 193, 203, 295

“Bottle Imp,” xxiv. 292; xxv. [272], [284], [340]; Samoan translation, xxv. [64] & n. 1

Bough, Sam, painter, xxiii. 24, 26-30; xxiv. 60

Bourget, Paul, xxv. [130]-2, [315], [323]

Bourke, Captain, R.N., xxv. [263]

Bournemouth, at, xxiv. 104 et seq.; xxv. [111]

“Bouroche, Major” (Débâcle), xxv. [250]

Braemar, at, xxiii. 282, 313, 320

Braille, books by R. L. S., to be issued in, xxv. [366], [413]

Brandeis, xxv. [141]

“Brashiana,” burlesque sonnets, xxiii. 283; xxiv. 14, 38, 39

Brash, the publican, xxiii. 336; xxiv. 14

Braxfield (Weir of Hermiston), xxv. [260] & n. 1, [264]-5; portrait of, xxv. [453]

Bridge of Allan, at, xxiii. 33, 174

British Museum, visits to, xxiv. 105, 107, 186-7, 202, 229, 365

Bronson, —, editor, xxiii. 240

Brooke, Rajah, xxv. [129]

Brown, —, xxiv. 230

Brown, Dr. John, verses to, xxiii. 296, 297

Brown, Horatio F., xxiii. 303, 304; letters to, xxiii. 303, 304

Brown, Mrs., xxiii. 13

Brown, Rev. Dr., xxv. [312]

Brown R. Glasgow (editor of London), xxiii. 184, 251; illness, xxiii. 214 & n. 1

Browne, Gordon, xxv. [301], [305]; letter to, xxv. [252]

Browning, Robert, xxiv. 107, 202; book on, by Gosse, xxv. [74]

Bruce, Michael, xxiii. 71

Bruno, Father, xxiv. 312, 334

Brussels, at, xxiii. 36

Buckinghamshire, walking tour in, xxiii. 124, 155

Buckle, Mrs., xxiv. 176

“Bucolics” (Virgil), xxiii. 18

“Bummkopf” (typical pedant), xxiii. 225

Bunner, —, xxiv. 64, 154

Bunting, —, xxiv. 227

Bunyan, John, xxiv. 29; essay on, xxiii. 334; xxv. [398]

Burford Bridge, visit to, xxiii. 183

Burial customs, Gilbert Islanders’, xxiv. 400-1

Burke, Edmund, xxiii. 71

Burlingame, E. L., editor of Scribner’s Magazine, xxiv. 233; xxv. [6], [138]; letters to, xxiv. 253-4, 269, 273-4, 319, 338, 367, 376, 387, 394, xxv. [24], [32], [86], [110], [128], [145], [174], [210], [215], [257], [266]

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, xxiii. 224; xxiv. 101, 107, 202; xxv. [394]

Burney, “Admiral,” R.N., xxv. [394]

Burn, Miss, xxiv. 89

Burns Exhibition, Glasgow, xxv. [69], [87] et seq.

Burns, Robert, xxiii. intro. xxiii.; xxv. [69], [70], [88], [395]-6; articles and writings on, xxiii. 111, 151, 179, 191, 192, 193, 202, 203, 224, 226, 237, 241, 245, 250, 263, 273, 358, xxiv. 63; house of, Dumfries, xxiii. 66; judgment on, xxiii. 224; poems of, xxiii. 4, xxiv. 256

Burt, xxiii. 298

Bussard, the ship, xxv. [425]

Butaritari, Gilbert Islands, xxiv. 358

“But still our hearts are true” (Eglinton), xxv. [69], [70]

“But yet the Lord that is on high” (Scotch Psalter), xxiii. 23

“By Proxy” (Payn), xxiv. 7

Byron, Lord, xxiii. 132; essay on (Henley), xxiii. 318; xxiv. 7


Caldecott, Randolph, xxiii. 248, 267

California, visit to, xxiii. 228

Calistoga, at, xxiii. 277

Calton Hill (Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh), xxiii. 216

Calvin, John, studies in, xxiii. 126

Cambridge, visits to, xxiii. 219; xxiv. 105

Cameron, Captain, xxiv. 349, 350

Campagne Defli, at, xxiv. 4, 8 et seq.

Campbell of Glenure, murder of, xxiii. 284, 331, 332

Campbell, Rev. Professor Lewis, xxiii. 278, 316; letter to, xxiv. 113

“Canadian Boat Song” (Earl of Eglinton), xxv. [69], [70]

Candlish, Dr., xxiv. 63

“Cannon Mills,” projected, xxiv. 403

Canoe Journey in France (see Inland Voyage), xxiii. 204

“Canoe, The, Speaks” (Underwoods), xxiv. 89, 231

“Canterbury Pilgrimage” (Chaucer), illustrated, gift of, xxiv. 149

“Capitaine Fracasse, Le” (Théophile Gautier), xxiii. 75

Cap Martin, xxiii. intro. xxxiv., 93, 114

“Captain Singleton” (Defoe), xxiv. 101, 102

Carlyle, Thomas, xxiii. 302; xxiv. 135; appreciation of, xxiii. 301, 302; on Coleridge, xxiii. 220

“Carmosine” (Musset), xxiv. 97

Carrington, C. Howard, letter to, xxiv. 152

Carr, T. Comyns, xxiv. 68

Carruthers, —, xxv. [40]

Carson, Mrs., xxiii. 252

“Carthew” (Wrecker), xxv. [112] & n. 1

“Casamassima” (H. James), xxiv. 263

Casco, schooner, cruise in, xxiv. 234, 287 et seq., 290-1, 300, 305, 310, 312-3, 316 et seq., 325 et seq.

“Case Bottle,” xxiii. 281

“Cashel Byron’s Profession” (Shaw), xxiv. 270-1

“Casparidea,” unpublished, xxiii. 283

“Cassandra” (Mrs. R. L. Stevenson), xxiv. 22

Cassell and Co., xxiv. 110, 127; xxv. [57], [110], [124], [272], [283]

“Catriona” (at first called “David Balfour,” q.v.), xxiii. intro. xxiii., 331; xxiv. 190, 402; xxv. [108], [144], [155], [158] & n. 1, [160]-1, [163], [166]-7, [172], [187], [192], [201]-2, [211], [215], [240], [250], [264], [274], [283], [290], [298], [301], [305], [310], [316], [344], [351] & n. 1, [352], [378]; in Braille, xxv. [366]; characters in, xxv. [216]; draft of, xxv. [162]; maps for, xxv. [177]-8; “my high-water mark,” xxv. [393] (but see [379]); projected illustrations, xxv. [349] n. 1; replies to remarks on, xxv. [294] et seq.; restraint of description in, xxv. [367]

Cavalier (de Sonne), xxiii. 307

Cavalier, Jean, xxiii. 306, 307

“Cavalier,” The (G. P. R. James), xxiv. 274

Cedercrantz, Conrad, Chief Justice of Samoa, xxv. [7], [13], [48]-9, [67], [95]-6, [98]-100, [102], [124]-5, [175], [188], [239], [256], [275], [278], [281], [286], [305], [364], [376], [380]-1

Celtic blood in Britain, xxv. [379]

Century Magazine, xxiv. 26, 30, 55, 90, 171; article in, by H. James, on R. L. S., xxiv. 250-1; contributions to, xxiii. 338, xxiv. 55, 170, 171, 185; critical notice in, of R. L. S., xxiv. 63, 64

Cévennes, the tramp in (see “Travels with a Donkey”), xxiii. 183

Ceylon, projected visit, xxv. [98]

Chair of History and Constitutional Law, Edinburgh University, candidature for, xxiii. 282, 309 et seq., 331, 335, 336

Chalmers, Rev. J., xxv. [30], [33], [39], [56]-7

“Chapter of Artistic History,” suggested title for proposed book by Henley, xxiii. 318

“Chapter on Dreams” (Scribner’s), xxiv. 235; xxv. [97]

“Character of Dogs” (English Illustrated), xxiv. 67; xxv. [41] n. 2

“Charity Bazaar,” xxv. [398]

Charles of Orleans, paper on, xxiii. 182, 191, 192, 202, 203, 204

“Charlotte” (Sorrows of Werther), xxiii. 60, 61

Charteris, Rev. Dr., xxiv. 276; letters to, xxiv. 276, 279

Chastity, xxiii. 338, 360

Chateaubriand (Sainte-Beuve), xxiii. 78

Chatto, Andrew, letter to, xxiv. 110

Chatto and Windus, publishers, xxiii. 335; xxiv. 110; xxv. [395]; letter to, xxiv. 231

Chepmell, Dr., xxiv. 242

Chester visited, xxiii. 145, 146

“Chevalier Des Touches” (d’Aurévilly), xxv. [174], [314], [380]

Chicago Exhibition, xxv. [379]

Children, feelings towards, xxiii. 99, 101, 147, 171

Children in the [Kilburn] Cellar (see also Boodle), letter to, xxv. [243]

“Child’s Garden of Verse,” xxiii. 282; xxiv. 5, 17 et seq., 24, 54, 55, 70, 99 et seq., 106, 116, 154; xxv. [385]; dedication, xxiv. 16, 19, 27, 92; illustrations, xxiv. 18 et seq., 32, 115; publication, xxiv. 138, 140; reviews, xxiv. 147

“Child’s Play,” xxiv. 70; xxv. [301]

Chiltern Hills, visited, xxiii. 155

“Choice of Books” (F. Harrison), xxv. [113]

Christianity and Asceticism, xxiii. 213

Christmas Books (Dickens), xxiii. 148

Christmas Day at Vailima, xxv. [40]-1

“Christmas Sermon,” xxv. [123] n. 1

Christ’s Hospital, xxiv. 206, 207

Chrystal, Professor, xxiv. 118

“Cimourdain” (Quatre-vingt Treize, by Hugo), xxiii. 130 n. 1

“Clarissa Harlowe” (Richardson), xxiii. 210

Clarke, Mrs. W. E., xxv. [26]

Clark, R. & R., printers, xxv. [124]

Clark, Rev. W. E., missionary, xxiv. 371; xxv. [10], [11] & n. 1, [26], [30], [64] n. 1, [101]; xxv. [203], [236], [329], [330], [422], [458], [460]

Clark, Sir Andrew, xxiii. 55, 77, 84

Claxton, missionary, xxv. [64]

Clinton, —, xxiii. 332, 333

Clouds, descriptions of, xxv. [178]-9

Club, at Vailima, xxv. [168], [170], [176]

Clytie, bust of, xxiii. 170

Cockfield Rectory, xxiii. 276; at, xxiii. 54, 56

“Coggie,” see Ferrier, Miss

Coleridge, S. T., xxiii. 220

Colinton, manse of, xxiii. 5

“Collected Essays” (Huxley), xxiv. 219

Collins, Wilkie, xxiii. 238

“Colonel Jack” (Defoe), xxiv. 101, 103

Colorado, xxiv. 110 et seq., 229 et seq., 234

Colvin, Lady (see also Sitwell, Mrs.), xxiii. 54

Colvin, Sir Sidney, xxiii. 88, 91, 93, 94 et seq., 116, 117, 152; xxiv. 13, 47, 133, 191, 210, 216, 278, 323, 343, 396; choice of, for literary executor, xxiii. intro. xviii.; introduction of Eeles to, xxv. [452]; letters to (see especially xxv. [5]), xxiii. 75, 76, 105, 106, 108, 124, 127, 129, 140, 141, 143, 157, 167, 169, 173, 178, 186, 191, 195, 196, 201, 202, 206, 211, 212, 225, 230, 232, 234, 235, 241, 244, 247, 251, 253, 258, 267, 269, 272, 273, 274, 276, 284, 291, 297, 300, 308, 310, 316, 320, 339, 349; xxiv. 15, 33, 55, 69, 81, 98, 99, 101, 134, 136, 137, 186, 189, 192, 210, 219, 227, 235-6, 238, 264, 265, 275, 283, 285, 293, 295, 298, 316, 329, 336, 353, 357, 362, 385; xxv. [9], [25], [34], [48], [54], [58], [66], [76], [83], [90], [94], [102], [112], [121], [132], [152], [156], [166], [178], [193], [211], [221], [230], [249], [258], [271], [282], [289], [291], [294], [299], [310], [324], [338], [347], [352], [367], [380], [382], [387], [396], [404], [414], [422], [430], [441] (the last), [448]; letters to, from Mrs. R. L. Stevenson, xxiv. 308, 347; portraits of, xxv. [78]-9, [80] & n. 1, [83]-5, [94], [100]; testimonial from, xxiii. 316

“Come back” (Clough), xxiii. 294

Comines, Philippe de, xxiii. 193

Commissioners of Northern Lights, yacht of, xxv. [98] & n. 1

“Comtesse d’Escarbaguas” (Molière), xxiv. 123

“Comtesse de Rudolstadt” (Sand), xxiii. 135

“Confessions” (St. Augustine), xxiv. 82-3

Congdon, L. C., xxv. [384]

Conrad, Joseph, xxv. [76]

“Consuelo” (Sand), xxiii. 87, 135

Consulship, xxv. [208] & n. 1

Contemporary Review, contributions to, xxiv. 143, 181, 227; xxv. [398]

Cook’s “Voyages,” xxv. [346]

“Coolin,” Skye terrier, xxiv. 201

Coquelin, xxiii. 276

Cornhill Magazine, xxiii. intro. xvii.; xxiv. 355; contributions to, xxiii. 56, 104, 125, 129, 180, 184, 191, 201, 203, 204, 205, 206, 208, 210, 211, 224, 237, 238, 256, 258, 264, 281, 341, 352, 355; xxiv. 90; xxv. [397]; Henley’s “Hospital” poems in, xxiii. 174 n. 1, 176

Cornwall, Barry, xxv. [29] n. 2

Cornwall, impressions of, xxiii. 207

“Correspondence” (Wodrow’s), xxiii. 291

Corsica, glimpse of, xxiii. 108

“Country Dance,” xxiii. 171, 172

“Country Wife” (Wycherley), Lamb’s essay on, xxiv. 87

Covenanters, xxiii. 65, 67; rhyming by, xxv. [363]

Craig, —, xxiii. 25

Cramond, xxiii. 61

“Cramond” and other cousins, xxiv. 44

Crane, Walter, xxiii. 212; xxiv. 32

“Crashaw,” essay (Gosse), xxiii. 291

“Crime inconnu” (Méry), xxiii. 258

“Crime, Le, et le Châtiment” (Dostoieffsky), xxiv. 182 n. 1, 183

“Criminal Trials” (Arnott), xxiii. 332

“Critical Kitcats” (Gosse), xxiv. 235

Critic, The, notice in, xxiv. 64

Crockett, S. R., xxv. [349] & n. 2, [403]; letters to, xxiv. 280; xxv. [305]

Crosse, Henry, sculptor, xxv. [383]

Cumming, Miss Gordon, xxiv. 308

Cummy (see Cunningham)

Cunningham, Alison, xxiii. 5, 69, xxiv. 100; letters to, xxiii. 32, 340; xxiv. 16, 17, 44, 167, 196, 200, 202, 204, 220; xxv. [359], [445]

Curaçoa, H.M.S., xxv. [189], [202], [234], [267] et seq., [416], [425]; officers of, xxv. [374], [389], [405]-9, [414], [447], [450]; petty officers’ ball, xxv. [414]-5

“Curate of Anstruther’s Bottle,” xxiii. 108, 109, 170

Curtin, Jeremiah, widow and daughters of, xxiv. 108, 222

Cusack-Smith, Sir Berry, xxv. [334]


Dalgleish, Dr. Scott, and the Ballantyne Memorial, xxv. [393]

Damien, Father, xxiv. 291-2, 349, 354, 356; letter on, xxiv. 383-4, 391 n. 1, 404; xxv. [124]

“Damned Ones of the Indies” (Joseph Méry), xxiii. 258

Damon, Rev. F., xxiv. 383

“Dance of Death” (Rowlandson’s), xxv. [292]-3

Dancing Children (Notes on the Movements of Young Children), xxv. [397]-8

“Daniel Deronda” (George Eliot), xxiii. 210

Darien affair, books on, wanted, xxv. [361]

Darwin, Charles, xxiii. 57, 122

David Balfour, character, xxv. [155], [189]-90

“David Balfour” (title first given both to “Kidnapped” and “Catriona,” q.v.), xxiv. 179, 190-1, 196, 201, 204; xxv. [108], [144], [158] & n. 1, [160], [161]-2, [163], [167], [172], [177], [279], [283], [313], [316], [351], [366], [379]; “Catriona” issued as, in serial form, xxv. [294]; historical introduction planned, xxv. [376]; unfinished, xxiv. 402

Davis, Dr., of Savaii, xxv. [32]

Davos, visits to, xxiii. intro. xxxiv., 280 et seq., 331 et seq.; papers on (Pall Mall Gazette), xxiii. 281, 347

“Dawn of the Century” (Ashton), xxv. [392]

“Day after To-morrow” (Contemporary), xxv. [398]

“Deacon Brodie,” play (with Henley), xxiii. 185, 257; xxiv. 119, 230, 248; production, xxiv. 99, 102, 261

“Dead Man’s Letter,” projected, xxiii. 249, 308

Deans, Jeanie, xxiii. 65

“Death in the Pot,” projected, xxv. [314] & n. 1

Death, thoughts on, xxiii. 136, 275, 276; xxiv. 58, 162, 183, 227

“Débâcle” (Zola), xxv. [250] & n. 1, [318], [319], [379]

Deborah and Barak, fancies on, xxiii. 154, 155

“Decisions of the Lords of Council” (Fountainhall), xxv. [293], [336], [360]

“Defence of Idlers” (see “Apology for Idlers”)

Defoe, Daniel, works of, xxiv. 101, 103

“Delafield,” xxiii. 350; xxv.[55]-6 n. 1

“Delhi,” and other cousins, xxiv. 44

de Mattos, Mrs., letters to, xxiii. 199; xxiv. 152, 167

“Demi-Monde” (Dumas fils), scene in, xxiv. 273

Depression, xxiii. 199, 200

De Quincey, Thomas, biography of (Japp), xxiii. 321

“Dernière Aldini, La,” xxiv. 97

Desborough, Mrs., xxiv. 177

Descamps, Maxime, xxiv. 405

“Descent of Man” (Darwin), xxiii. 57

des Ursins, Juvénal, xxiii. 192

“Devil on Cramond Sands,” xxiii. 170, 249, 308

Dew-Smith, A. G., xxiv. 151; letter to, xxiii. 287

Dhu Heartach lighthouse, xxiii. 10

“Diaboliques, Les” (d’Aurévilly), xxv. [174]

“Dialogue of Character and Destiny,” unfinished, xxiii. 257, 267

“Dialogue on Man, Woman, and ‘Clarissa Harlowe,’” projected, xxiii. 211

Diana of the Ephesians, play on, planned, xxiii. 124, 125

“Diary,” suggested publication of, xxv. [208]

Dick, Mr., xxiv. 135; letter to, xxiv. 83

“Dickon Crookback” (Black Arrow), xxiii. intro. xx.

“Dictionary of Music” (Grove), xxiii. 151

Didier, Father, xxv. [67]

“Die Judin” at Frankfurt, xxiii. 44

Disappointment, xxiii. 295

Dobell, Dr., xxiv. 201, 230

Dobson, Austin, xxiii. 307; xxiv. 205; letter to, xxiv. 126

“Dr. Syntax’s Tour,” xxv. [292]-3

“Dodd” (Wrecker), xxv. [378]

“Dogs” (Mayhew), xxiii. 341

“Dolly” (Way of the World), xxiii. 215

Donadieu’s restaurant, xxiii. 254

Donat, —, xxiv. 312

“Don Juan” (Byron), xxiii. 354

“Don Juan,” unfinished play (with Henley), xxiii. 256, 257, 258

Dorchester, visited, xxiv. 153

Dostoieffsky’s works, xxiv. 182-3

Dover, T. W., letter to, xxv. [209]

Dowden, Professor, xxiv, 211-12

Dowdney, —, xxv. [138]

Dowson, Mr., xxiii. 86, 88

Doyle, Sir A. Conan, letters to, xxv. [298], [336], [429]

“Dreams,” xxv. [97]

Duddingston Loch, xxiii. 75, 164

“Du hast Diamanten und Perlen,” song, xxiii. 58

Dumas, Alexandre (pêre), xxiii. 347; Henley’s book on, xxiv. 54, 257

Dumas, novels of, xxiv. 398

Dumfries, at, xxiii. 64

Dunblane, at, xxiii. 33

Dunnet, —, xxv. [106]

Dunoyer, Olympe, xxiii. 307

“Du schönes Fischermädchen,” song (Schubert), xxiii. 139

Dutra, Augustin, xxiii. 240

Dutton, Mr., xxiv. 356

“Dyce of Ythan,” projected (see also “The Young Chevalier”), xxv. [172]

“Dynamiter, The,” xxiv. 114, 176

Dynamite, views on, xxiv. 108


Earraid, Isle of, xxiii. 10, 24, 318

“Earthly Paradise” (Morris), xxiii. 36

Easter Island, images from, xxiv. 362, 367

“Ebb Tide” (with Lloyd Osbourne), xxiv. 361, 399 & n. 1, 402; xxv. [120], [172] & n. 1, [281], [288] et seq., [290] & n. 1, [301] et seq., [307], [310], [314] et seq., [318], [321], [325], [350], [353], [372]; criticism, xxv. [347] et seq.; illustrations for, notes on, xxv. [301]

“Echoes” (Henley), xxv. [215]

Eckenhelm, xxiii. 39

“Eclogues” (Virgil), xxiii. 34

Edinburgh Academy (school), old boys’ dinner, xxiii. 168, 169

Edinburgh, at, xxiii. passim; homes in, xxiii. 5; life at, 1874-5, xxiii. 123 et seq.

Edinburgh Castle, xxiii. 69, 71

Edinburgh Courant, wanted, xxv. [392]

Edinburgh Edition of works, xxv. [372]-3, [394], [396], [404], [414]; illustrations in, xxv. [423] & n. 1; suggested prefaces, xxv. [376]

“Edinburgh Eleven” (Barrie), xxv. [276]

Edinburgh, influence of, xxv. [155]

Edinburgh, “Picturesque Notes on,” xxiii. 185, 211, 216, 218

Edinburgh Review, article in, on Rembrandt, by Colvin, xxiii. 225

Edinburgh Society of Arts, medal awarded to R. L. S., xxiii. 10

Edinburgh streets, xxiv. 100

Edinburgh University, Speculative Society at, xxiii. 35, 64, 184; xxiii. 312; xxiv. 178 studies at, xxiii. 8 et seq.

Eeles, Lieutenant, R.N., xxv. [415]; letters to, xxv. [267], [451]

Effort, uses of, xxiv. 88

Eglinton, Hugh, 12th Earl of, xxv. [69]

“Egoist, The” (Meredith), xxiii. 353

Eimeo, storm near, xxiv. 324

“Einst, O Wunder, einst,” song, xxiii. 65

“Elements of Style” (Contemporary Review), xxiv. 181

Elgin marbles, the, xxiii. 158-60, 163-4

Eliot, George, works of, xxiii. 210

Elstree murder, xxiii. 338

“Emerson” (H. James), xxiv. 278

“Emigrant Train, The,” xxv. [97]

“Encyclopædia Britannica,” contributions to, xxiii. 179, 186, 191, 202-3

“Endymion” (Keats), xxiv. 170

“Engineer’s Thumb” (Doyle), xxv. [340]

England and Samoa, xxv. [6] et seq.

England and Scotland, contrasts between, xxiii. 56 et seq.

English Illustrated Magazine, contributions to, xxiv. 68 & n. 1

“English Odes,” edited by Gosse, xxiii. 292; suggestions concerning, xxiii. 293-4

English, the, mock definition of, xxiii. 225

“English Village, An” (Gosse), xxv. [457]

“English Worthies” Series, book for, xxiv. 134

“Ensorcelée, L’” (d’Aurévilly), xxv. [314], [380]

“Epilogue to an Inland Voyage,” xxiv. 68

Epitaph for himself, by R. L. S., xxiii. 269; xxv. [375]

Epitaph (mock) on himself, xxiv. 69

Equator, schooner, cruise in, xxiv. 291-2, 340, 343, 347, 357-8, 369, 390; xxv. [3]

“Eroica” Symphony (Beethoven), xxiii. 166

“Escape at Bedtime” (“Child’s Garden”), xxiv. 55

Essays, xxiii. 143; selected, projected volume and suggested contents, xxv. [301] & n. 1

“Essays in Art” (Hamerton), xxiii. 242

“Essays in London” (H. James), xxv. [367]

“Essays on the Art of Writing,” xxiv. 265

“Essays on Travel,” xxiii. 201, 281

“Etherege,” essay (Gosse), xxiv. 45

“Evan Harrington” (Meredith), characters in, xxiv. 97

Evictions, Highland, xxiii. 298

“Evictions” (Miller), xxiii. 297

Ewing, Professor, xxiv. 226

Exeter, visited, xxiv. 105, 153

“Expansion of England” (Seeley), xxiv. 55, 56


“Fables in Song,” xxiii. 127-8, 132, 141, 142

“Fables” (Lord Lytton), xxiii. 129

Fage, xxiii. 307

Fairchild, Blair, xxiv. 239, 405

Fairchild, Charles, xxiv. 233, 237, 239, 250; letter to, xxiv. 246

Fairchild, Mrs. Charles, xxiv. 233, 237, 239, 250; xxv. [379]; letters to, xxiv. 403; xxv. [163], [240]

Fair Isle, visit to, xxiii. 24

Fakarava, at, xxiv. 295, 312

“Falconers, The Two, of Cairnstane,” xxiii. 170

Falke, the, xxv. [425]

Fall of Man, the, xxiii. 212

“Familiar Essays,” xxiv. 230

“Familiar Studies of Men and Books,” xxiii. 149, 224, 229, 351, 355; publication, xxiii. 335.

“Family of Engineers” (“History of the Stevensons” or the “Northern Lights”), unfinished; xxv. [120], [310], [315]-6, [319]-20, [322], [334], [339], [348], [357]; germ of, xxiv. 279; xxv. [95]

“Family of Love,” xxiii. 170

“Fantasio” (de Musset), xxiv. 97

Farehau, xxiv. 310, 315

“F.A.S., In Memoriam” (Underwoods), xxiii. 300

Fast-day, xxiii. 153

“Fastidious Brisk,” sobriquet, xxiv. 72

“Faust” (Goethe), xxiv. 71

Faxon, —, xxiv. 390

“Femmes Savantes” (Molière), xxiv. 123

Fenian dynamite outrages, xxiii. 320

Fergusson, Robert, poet, xxiv. 214, 215; xxv. [57], [70]-1, [88]; monument, xxv. [395]-6

Ferrier, James Walter, xxiii. 48, 223; xxiv. 46, 47, 63, 98; appreciation of, xxiv. 46 et seq.; collaboration with, xxv. [398]; death, xxiv. 6, 46 et seq., 59, 69, 71-2, 96 n. 1; letter to, xxiii. 269

Ferrier, Miss, xxiv. 90; letters to, xxiv. 46, 52, 71, 88, 121, 132, 282

Festetics de Solna, Count, at Apia, xxv. [415]

Fielding, Henry, xxiii. 129

Fiji, xxv. [50], [96], [102]

Fiji, High Commissioner of, proclamation by, xxv. [280]

“Finsbury Tontine, The” (see “Wrong Box”)

Flaubert, Gustave, on prose, xxv. [71]-2

Fleming, Marjorie, xxiv. 245 n. 1; verses of, xxv. [385]

“Flint, Captain” (“Treasure Island”), xxiii. 326

“Flowers of the Forest,” air, xxiii. 113

Folau, —, Chief Judge, xxv. [30]

“Folk Lore” (Lang), xxiv. 130

Folleté, M., xxiii. 100

“Fons Bandusiæ” (Macdonald), xxiv. 249

Fontainebleau (see also Barbizon, and “Forest Notes”), visits to, xxiii. 124, 182, 183, 184, 189, 282, 305

“Footnote to History,” xxiv. 362 et seq., 369 et seq., 386; xxv. [5], [41] n. 1, [117], [120], [122], [124], [126], [129]-30, [138], [140]-4, [146], [163], [172], [188], [192], [211], [250], [257], [267], [274]; publication of, xxv. [146]; German reception of, xxv. [346]

“Foreigner, The, at Home,” essay, xxiii. 56

“Forester,” unfinished paper (J. W. Ferrier), xxiii. 269

“Forest Notes,” essay on Fontainebleau (Magazine of Art), xxiii. 180, 181, 186, 198, 201, 202; xxiv. 32, 57, 58, 67, 68 n. 1; xxv. [397]-8

“Forest State, The: A Romance” (see also “Prince Otto”), xxiii. 259, 265, 266

Forfeited Estates, tenants of, xxiii. 298

Forster, —, xxiii. 321

Forth, Firth of, xxiii. 61, 68, 69

Fortnightly Review, contributions to, xxiii. 127, 132, 281

“Fortune by Sea and Land” (Heywood), xxiii. 354

Fortune, Mr. and Mrs., xxiii. 15

“Fortunes of Nigel” (Scott), xxiv. 91

Foss, Captain, xxv. [106]

“Four Great Scotsmen,” project for, xxiii. 111

“Fra Diavolo,” at Frankfurt, xxiii. 42

France, Anatole, xxv. [321], [409]

Franchise for working men, xxiii. 97

François, a baker, xxiii. 240; xxiv. 42

François Villon, xxiii. 182, 191, 192, 207; xxiv. 397; Schwob’s writings on, xxv. [52]

Frank, —, xxv. [330]

Frankfurt, at, xxiii. 38

Franklin, Benjamin, article on, projected, xxiii. 253, 265, 266, 333

Fraser’s Magazine, contribution to, xxv. [97], [123]

French possessions in the Pacific, xxiv. 293

French translations, see letters to Schwob

“Friend,” the (S. T. Coleridge), xxiii. 221

Friends, the six, xxiv. 47

“Fruits of Solitude” (Penn), xxiii. 303

Funk, Dr., xxv. [416], [458]


Galitzin, Prince Leon, xxiii. 119, 120, 121, 125, 155

Galpin, —, xxiv. 202

“Gamekeeper,” sobriquet for Miss Boodle, xxiv. 259, 284

“Game of Bluff,” see “Wrong Box”

Garschine, Madame, xxiii. 98, 99, 102, 108, 115, 147; letter from, xxiii. 128

“Gauvain” (Quatre-vingt Treize, by Hugo), xxiii. 130 n. 1

“Gavin Ogilvy,” character (Barrie), xxv. [277]

“Gavottes Célèbres” (Litolf’s edition), xxiv. 188

“Gebir,” line from, quoted (Landor), xxiii. 329

“Genesis of the Master of Ballantrae,” xxv. [33]

“Gentleman of France” (Weyman), xxv. [312]

“George the Pieman” (Deacon Brodie), xxiii. 257

German policy in Samoa, xxiv. 370; xxv. [6] et seq., [176] et passim

Gévaudan, xxiii. 218

“Giant Bunker,” xxiv. 70

Gibson, Captain, xxv. [203]

Gilbert Islands, burial customs in, xxiv. 399, 400; papers on, xxv. [84]; suggested plan and title, [84]; visited, xxiv. 291-2, 356-7 et seq., 368

Gilder, R. W., editor Century Magazine, xxiii. 338; xxiv. 26, 29, 30, 64, 98, 149, 185, 250

Gilfillan, —, xxiv. 349, 352

Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., xxiii. 113; xxiv. 136-7, 139, 192

Glasgow, Knox memorial at, xxv. [88]

“Gleams of Memory” (Payn), xxv. [447]

Glencorse Church, xxiii. 180; xxv. [305], [307]

“Go Between,” xxv. [314]-5 & n. 1

“Goguclat” (St. Ives), xxiii. intro. xx.

“Good Boy, A” (“Child’s Garden”), xxiv. 55, 170

“Gordon Darnaway” (“Merry Men”), xxiii. intro. xx.

Gordon, General C. G., xxiv. 107, 137, 139-40, 183; xxv. [57]

Gosse, Edmund, xxiii. 311, 316, 328, 329, 341; xxiv. 36, 120, 244; appointment to Clark Readership, xxiv. 99; letters to, xxiii. 219, 224, 226, 236, 243, 245, 260, 271, 292, 293, 306, 311, 313, 324, 325, 332, 338, 350, 359, 360; xxiv. 26, 29, 30, 45, 50, 87, 97, 125, 139, 173, 181, 244, 277; xxv. [71], [317], [454]; “Life” by, of his father, xxv. [71], [130], [317]

Gosse, Mrs. Edmund, xxiii. 225, 227; letter to, xxiii. 347

Gosse, P. H., “Life” of, by E. Gosse, xxv. [71], [130], [317]

“Gossip, A, on Romance,” xxiii. 283, 342, 349

Göttingen, xxiii. 118, 122, 125

“Gower Woodseer” (“Amazing Marriage,” by Meredith), prototype of, xxv. [344], [390]-1

Grange, Lady, xxiii. 298

Grant, —, xxiii. 316

Grant, Geordie, xxiii. 19

Grant, Lady, xxiv. 53, 72

Grant, Mrs., of Laggan, xxiii. 298

Granton, xxiii. 8

Grant, Sir Alexander, xxiv. 53, 72, 132

“Grape from a Thorn” (Payn), xxiv. 7

Graves, home and foreign, xxv. [349] & n. 1

“Gray, Thomas” (“English Men of Letters”), by Gosse, xxiii. 350, 351, 360; works of, edited by Gosse, xxiv. 140

“Great Expectations” (Dickens), xxiv. 22-3

“Great North Road,” unfinished, xxiii. 328; xxiv. 106, 127, 139, 152, 402

Greenaway, Kate, xxiv. 32

Green, Madame, singer, xxv. [249]

Grey, Sir George, xxv. [290], [298]-9; visit to, xxv. [292]

Grez, at, xxiii. 183, 185, 187; meeting with Mrs. Osbourne at, xxii. 183, 228

Grove, Sir George, xxiii. intro. xviii. 151, 178, 204

Guérin, Maurice de, xxiii. 165

Gurr, —, xxv. [48], [105], [116], [448]

Gurr, Mrs., xxv. [107]

Guthrie, Charles J., letters to, xxiii. 312; xxiv. 178

“Guy Mannering” (Scott), xxiv. 91; xxv. [167]


Habakkuk, prophet, xxiii. 211

Haddon, Trevor, letters to, xxiii. 357, 360; xxiv. 10, 39, 93

Haggard, Bazett, xxv. [138], [161], [170]-1, [193] et passim

Haggard, Rider, xxiv. 257; xxv. [86], [226]-7

“Haggis, The” (Burns), xxiv. 256

“Hair Trunk,” xxiii. 205-6

Hake, Dr. Gordon, xxiv. 239

Hall, Basil, xxv. [111]

Hallé, Sir Charles, xxiii. 169, 198

“Hall, Mr.” (Clarissa Harlowe), xxiii. 211

Hamerton, P. G., xxiii. intro. xvii., 58, 216, 218, 315 n. 1, 316, 336; letters to, xxiii. 242, 314, 335; xxiv. 143

“Hamerton, P. G., An Autobiography,” xxiii. 216

Hamilton, Captain, death of, xxv. [65]

“Hamlet” (Shakespeare), xxv. [51]

Hammond, Basil, xxiv. 13 & n. 1

Hampstead, at, xxiii. 124, 133

Hand, Captain, R.N., xxv. [139]

Handwriting, tests of, xxv. [254]-5

Hansome, Rufe, xxiii. 278

Happiness, xxiv. 183-4

Hardy, Thomas, xxiv. 153; xxv. [266]

Hargrove, Mr., xxiii. 25, 26

“Harry Richmond” (Meredith), characters in, xxiv. 97

Harte, Bret, xxiii. 210

“Hastie” (Kidnapped), xxiv. 196

Hawaiian Islands, stay in, xxiv. 291

“Hawthorne” (H. James), xxiii. 273, 277

Hayley, —, xxiii. 252

Hazlitt, William, xxv. [385]

“Heart of Midlothian” (Scott), xxiii. 65; xxv. [154]

“Heathercat,” unfinished, xxv. [281], [360]-1, [403]

Hebrides, yachting trip in, xxiii. 124, 139, 140

Hecky, a dog, xxiv. 202

Hegel, —, xxiv. 75

Heintz, Dr., xxiii. 244

Henderson, Mr., xxiii. 6, 328; xxiv. 31

Henley, Anthony, xxiii. 238, 240

Henley, E. J., xxiv. 261

Henley, W. E., xxiii. 124, 171, 172, 177, 284, 285, 334, 352; xxiv. 29, 47, 52, 59, 67, 79, 99, 151, 155, 191, 202, 302, 377; xxv. [97], [121], [123], [174]; appreciation of, xxv. [213]; dramatic collaboration with, xxiii. 185, 256, 257; xxiv. 99, 106, 119, 146; editor of London, xxiii. 184; in hospital, xxv. [427]; letters to, xxiii. 204, 217, 219, 221, 233, 238, 249, 255, 256, 265, 317, 319, 326, 328, 330, 334, 341, 342, 352, 362; xxiv. 17, 23, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 47, 54, 57, 65, 72, 79, 91, 96, 102, 111, 114, 120, 123, 127, 131, 133, 146, 147, 155, 229, 239, 248, 257; xxv. [214]; poems by, xxv. [122], [214]

“Henry Shovel,” see “Shovels of Newton French”

Herald, ship, xxv. [444]

Herbert, George, poetry of, xxiii. 18

Herrick, Robert, xxiii. intro. xx.; xxiv. 36, 82

“Herrick, Robert,” essay (Gosse), xxiv. 45

Hester Noble, unfinished play (with Henley), xxiii. 256, 257

“Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye waukin’ yet?” air, xxiii. 113

Highland History, projected, xxiii. 280, 290-1, 297; xxv. [117]

“Highland Widow” (Scott), xxv. [24]

“High Woods of Umfanua,” see “Beach of Falesá”

Hiroshigé, prints by, xxiii. 157

“Histoire d’Israël” (Renan), xxv. [304]

“Histoire des Origines de Christianisme” (Renan), xxv. [304]

“History of America” (Adams), xxv. [215], [266]

“History of England” (Macaulay), xxiii. 70

“History of France” (Martin), xxiii. 193

“History of Indostani” (Orme), xxv. [419], [423]

“History of Notorious Pirates” (Johnson), xxiv. 101

“History of the Great Storm” (Defoe), xxiv. 101

“History of the Rebellion” (Clarendon), xxiii. 31

“History of the Stevensons,” see “Family of Engineers”

“History of the United States” (Bancroft), xxiii. 246

Hogarth, William, xxiii. 69; Cambridge lectures on, by Colvin, xxiii. 178

Hokusai (Magazine of Art), xxiv. 32

Hole, W., illustrator, xxiv. 270, 319, 321-2, 346; xxv. [349] & n. 1, [362] n. 1

“Holy Fair” (Burns), xxiii. 4; xxiv. 265 n. 1

Homburg, visit to, xxiii. 182

“Home is the Sailor,” lines chosen for epitaph, xxiii. 269; xxv. [375]

Home Rule Bill of 1885, xxiv. 192

“Homme, L’, qui rit” (Hugo), xxiii. 125 & n. 1

Honolulu, visits to, xxiv. 291, 319 et seq., 329, 353; xxv. [281], [345], [349], [362]

“Horatian Ode” (Marvell), xxiii. 293

Hoskin, Dr., xxv. [268], [270], [452]

“House of Eld” Fables, xxiii. 12, 141

Houses, characteristics of, xxiii. 145, 146

Howard Place, 8, Edinburgh, birthplace, xxiii. 5

“Howe, Miss” (Clarissa Harlowe), xxiii. 210

“Huckleberry Finn” (Twain), xxiv. 139

“Huguenots, Les,” opera, xxiii. 200

“Huish” (Ebb Tide), xxv. [313]

“Human Compromise,” xxiii. 267

Humble Apology (Longman’s), xxiv. 181

Humble Remonstrance (Longman’s), xxiv. 127

Hume, David, xxiii. 4, 72, 111, 145

“Humilies et offensés” (Dostoieffsky), xxiv. 183

Hunter, Robert, “portrait” of, xxv. [301]

Hurricane at Apia, the great, xxiv. 345, 346, 369; xxv. [141], [172]-4; chapter on, in “Footnote,” issued in Scots Observer, xxv. [174]

Hutchinson, —, bust by, of R. L. S., xxv. [353] & n. 1

Hyde, Rev. Dr., and Father Damien, xxiv. 292; controversy with, xxiv. 383-4, 391 & n. 1, 402, 404

Hyéres, at, xxiv. 5, 21 et seq.; xxv. [60]

Hyndman, —, xxiv. 141

“Hyperion” (Keats), xxiv. 170


Iceland, book on, by Gosse suggested, xxiii. 333

“Ich unglückselige Atlas,” song (Schubert), xxiii. 139

Ide, Annie H., and R. L. S.’s birthday, xxv. [89]-90, [118]-9; letter to, xxv. [118]

Ide, C. J., Land Commissioner and afterwards Chief Justice in Samoa, xxv. [281], [298], [380]-1, [450]; letter to, xxv. [88]

Ide, Margery, xxv. [450]

Idler, The, xxv. [372], [429]; contributions to, xxv. [376]

Illustrated London News, xxv. [301]

Inchcape bell, xxiii. 29

Income-tax, xxiii. 113, 114

Inglis, John, Justice-General, xxiii. 181

Ingram, John H., xxiii. 166

“Inland Voyage,” xxiii. 183, 185, 204, 211, 212, 218, 229, 247; xxiv. 103; criticisms on, xxiii. 215-6

“Inn Album” (Robert Browning), review of, xxiii, 198, 199

“Inn, The,” xxv. [429]

“In Russet and Silver” (Gosse), dedication of, xxv. [454]

“In the Garden,” projected, xxiv. 99

“In the South Seas,” first published as “The South Seas,” xxiv. 290, 292, 297, 320-1, 358, 362, 399, 403; xxv. [5], [12], [16], [22], [26], [34], [45], [54], [61] & nn. 1 & 2, [68], [69], [77], [78], [80], [97], [100]; criticisms, xxiv. 293, 348-9; xxv. [76]; dedication proposed, xxiv. 304

Intimate Poems, suggested edition, xxv. [377]

Iona, vessel, xxiii. 24

Ireland, Alexander, letter to, xxiii. 342

Ireland, plan for life in, xxiv. 108, 222

Irongray, tombs at, xxiii. 65

“Isabella and the Pot of Basil” (Keats), xxiv. 170

Isaiah, prophet, xxiii. 211

“Is it not verse except enchanted groves” (Herbert), xxiii. 18

“Island Nights’ Entertainments,” xxv. [64], [272], [284], [290]; illustrations, xxv. [312]; length, xxv. [353] & n. 1; reviews xxv. [315] & n. 1

“Isle of Voices,” xxv. [272]

“Islet, The,” xxv. [301]

“Ivanhoe” (Scott), xxiv. 31


Jack, the island horse, xxv. [35]-6, [41], [136], [142]

James, G. P. R., novels by, ordered by R. L. S., xxiv. 273

James, Henry, xxiv. 105, 127, 130, 133, 143, 154, 182, 235, 250, 359; xxv. [29], [317], [415], [452]; letters to, xxiv. 127, 160, 214, 215, 237, 249, 262, 278, 288, 334, 382, 396; xxv. [43], [108], [130], [274], [320], [335], [367], [406]

“James More,” xxv. [161], [216], [295]

Janet Nicoll, ss., cruise in, xxiv. 292-3, 385 et seq., 392, 403; xxv. [11], [54], [304]

Japan and Japanese art, interest in, xxiii. 157, 158, 159; xxiv. 32, 57

Japp, Dr. Alexander, xxiii. 329; letters to, xxiii. 321, 327, 351

Jeafferson, —, xxiv. 178

“Jedidiah Cleishbotham” (Scott), xxiii. 65

Jenkin family, xxiii. 25, 100

Jenkin, Mrs. Fleeming, xxiii. 10, 25; xxiv. 300; letters to, xxiv. 150, 151, 187, 221, 225, 258; xxv. [273]

Jenkin, Professor Fleeming, xxiii. 10, 25, 118, 122, 175, 176, 183, 247, 311, 341, 353; xxiv. 48, 258, 272; death, xxiv. 106, 150, 151; memoir of, by R. L. S. (see “Memoir”); debt to, xxiv. 331

Jerome, Jerome K., xxv. [372], [429]

“Jerry Abershaw,” projected, xxiii. 328, 329; xxiv. 152

Jersey, Countess of, in Samoa, xxv. [145], [227], [228], [325]; letters to, xxv. [228]-9; on her visit to R. L. S., xxv. [228]

Jersey, Earl of, xxv. [288]

“Jess” (Window in Thrums), xxv. [277]

Jhering, Professor, xxiii. 118, 122

J. L. Tiernan, schooner, xxiv. 359

Joan of Arc, Byron’s epithet for, xxiii. 354

“Jock o’ Hazeldean,” air, xxiii. 113

“John Peel” of the song, xxiii. 28

“John Silver” (Treasure Island), xxiv. 112, 123; genesis of, xxiv. 31

Johnson, —, an American, xxiii. 108, 110, 111, 112

“Johnson,” or “Johnstone,” pseudonym, xxiv. 14, 121

Johnson, Samuel, xxiii. 298; “Life” of, xxiii. 193, 203

Johnstone, Marie, Mary, or May, xxiii. 94, 95, 98, 99, 101

Johnstone, Mr. and Mrs., xxiii. 96, 99

John Williams, missionary barque, xxiv. 387

“Jolly Beggars” (Burns), sent for autograph, xxv. [69], [87], [118]

Jones, Henry Arthur (see also “Bauble Shop”), letter to, xxiv. 133

Jonson, Ben, xxiii. 294

Journalistic work, xxiii. 184

“Joy of Earth” (Meredith), xxv. [214]

Jura, Skye terrier, xxv. [428]-9

“Justice Clerk,” see Weir of Hermiston

“Juvenilia,” xxv. [397]-8


Kaiulani, Hawaiian Princess, xxiv. 345, 346

Kalakaua, King, xxiv. 320

Kalaupapa, Molokai, xxiv. 351 et seq.

Kalawao, Molokai, xxiv. 353-4

Katoomba, H.M.S., xxv. [334]; band of, xxv. [351]

Kava, native beverage, xxv. [183] & n. 1

“Keats” (“English Men of Letters,” by Colvin), xxiii. 349, 350-1; xxiv. 210, 211

Keir, Jean, xxv. [335]

Kelso, xxiii. 156

“Kenilworth” (Scott), xxiv. 91

“Kidnapped,” xxiii. 24, 331; xxiv. 106, 146, 147, 179, 190, 195-6, 203, 233, 265, 317, 370, 377; xxv. [108], [160], [215], [250], [283], [301], [351]; in Braille, xxv. [366]; projected illustrations, xxv. [349] n. 1; reception, xxiv. 198; reviews, xxiv. 203; sequel (see “Catriona”), xxv. [144]; suggested French translation, xxv. [52]

Killigrew, Anne, xxiii. 293 n. 1

“King Lear” (Shakespeare), xxv. [51]

“King Matthias’s Hunting Horn” lost, xxiii. 158, 160, 170

Kinglake, W., xxiii. 70

“King’s Horn, The,” xxiii. 308

Kingston, W.G., xxiii. intro. xxiii.

Kingussie, at, xxiii. 284, 357

Kipling, Rudyard, anticipated visit from, xxv. [105] & n. 1; xxv. [163], [165]; appreciations of, xxiv. 396; xxv. [46], [213], [275]; letter to, xxv. [46]; writings of, xxv. [379]

Kirriemuir, xxv. [417]

“Kirstie Elliot” (Weir of Hermiston), xxiii. intro. xx.; xxv. [457]

Kitchener, Colonel, ib.

Kitchener, Viscount, xxv. [236]-7

Knappe, Consul, xxiv. 370; xxv. [139], [141]

“Knox, John, and his Relations with Women,” xxiii. 141, 149, 150, 153, 155

Knox, John, “Works” of, xxiii. 117

Knox, John, writings on, xxiii. 55, 61, 111, 141, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 153, 155, 158, 159, 167, 170, 171, 173

Ko-o-amua, ex-cannibal chief, xxiv. 293

“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), xxiii. 92, 220

Kuniyoshi, prints by, xxiii. 157


Labiche, —, xxiii. 239

Labour, imported, in Samoa, xxv. [159] & n. 1

Lacy, Mr., xxiii. 307

“Lady Barberina” (H. James), xxiv. 128

“Lady Carbury” (“Way of the World”), xxiii. 215

Lafarge, John, painter, xxv. [4], [29] & n. 1, [41], [43], [45]

La Fontaine, “Fables” of, xxv. [49]

“Lake Isle of Innisfree” (Yeats), xxv. [390]

Lamb, Charles, xxiii. 209

“Lamia” (Keats), illustrated by Low, xxiv. 142, 166; dedication of, xxiv. 169-71

Lampman, Archibald, sonnet by, xxiv. 321 & n. 1

Landor, W. S., xxiii. 302, 317, 320-1

“Landscape” (Hamerton), xxiv. 143-4

Land’s End, visited, xxiii. 183, 209

Lang, Andrew, xxiii. 115, 117, 222, 311, 316; xxiv. 106, 134, 206, 257, 278, 381, 388; xxv. [357], [427]; letters to, xxiv. 399; xxv. [216], [453]; story suggested by, xxv. [141] & n. 1; on “Treasure Island,” xxiv. 67

Lantenac, M. (Victor Hugo), xxiii. 130 n. 1

“Lantern Bearers, The” (Scribner’s), xxiv. 235, 254; xxv. [97], [301]

Large, Miss, xxv. [329]-31

La Sale, Antoine, projected essay on, xxiii. 207

“Last Sinner, The,” xxiii. 171

Laupepa, see Malietoa

Lautreppe, Albert de, xxv. [383]

Lavenham, xxiii. 56

Law examination passed, xxiii. 182

“Lay Morals,” 86, 185; xxiv. 62 et seq.

“Leading Light, The,” projected, xxiii. 329

“Leaves of Grass” (Whitman), xxiii. 70

Le Gallienne, Richard, letter to, xxv. [364]

Legal work, xxiii. 182, 184

Leigh, Hon. Capt., xxv. [227]-8, [231], [233], [234], [235]

Leith, xxiii. 159, 202

Lemon, —, picture by, xxiv. 167

Lenz, —, xxiv. 198

Le Puy, xxiii. 217

“Lesson, The, of the Master” (H. James), xxiv. 382; xxv. [108], [274]

“Letter to the Church of Scotland,” xxv. [398]

“Letter to a Young Gentleman,” xxv. [123] n. 1

“Letters and Memories of Jane Welsh Carlyle” (Froude), xxiii, 301, 302

Letters, desiderata in, xxiii. 259

“Letters” (Flaubert), xxiv. 405; xxv. [59]

“Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London” (Burt), xxiii. 291

“Letters to his Family and Friends,” xxiii. intro. xix.

Leven, xxiii. 61

“Library, The” (Lang), xxiii. 307

“Lieder und Balladen” (Burns), Silbergleit’s translation, xxiii. 39

Life, two views on, xxiv. 158, 164, 165

“Life and Death,” xxiii. 171

“Life of General Hutchinson” (Mrs. Hutchinson), xxiii. 30, 31, 32

“Life of Hazlitt,” projected, xxiii. 283, 336, 339, 345

“Life of P. H. Gosse” (Edmund Gosse), xxv. [71], [130], [317]

“Life of R. L. S.” (Balfour), xxiii. intro. xix.; xxv. [4], [59]

“Life of Robertson” (Dugald Stewart), xxiii. 119

“Life of Samuel Johnson” (Boswell), xxiii. 193, 203

“Life of Sir Walter Scott” (Lockhart), xxiv. 75, 84, 170, 171

“Life of Wellington” (“English Worthies”), unfinished, xxiv. 106, 134, 139

“Life on the Lagoons” (H. F. Brown), xxiii. 303

Lillie, Jean and David, connection of, with the Stevensons, xxv. [436]

“Lion of the Nile,” xxiv. 321

Lions, xxiii. 307

Lippincott, xxiv. 54-5, 90

“Literary Recollections” (Payn), xxiv. 381

“Little Minister” (Barrie), xxv. [265], [276]

“Lives of the Admirals” (Southey), xxiii. 70

“Lives of the Stevensons,” see “Family of Engineers”

“L. J. R.,” Essay Club, xxiii. 46, 48; xxv. [121]

Llandudno, visited, xxiii. 124, 148

Locker-Lampson, Frederick, letters to, xxiv. 205, 206, 207, 208, 215

“Lodging for the Night,” xxiii. 184, 191, 248

Logan, John, xxiii. 71, 72

London, contributions to, xxiii. 184

“London Life” (H. James), xxiv. 289

London, visits to (see also British Museum), xxiii. 77, 155, 330; xxiv. 105, 107, 186-7, 189, 202, 209, 229

“London Voluntaries” (Henley), xxv. [214]

Longman, —, publisher, xxiv. 30, 66, 111, 134; xxv. [123], [125]

Longman’s Magazine, contributions to, xxiv. 127, 130, 134, 143, 181; xxv. [454]

“Lord Nidderdale” (Way of the World), xxiii. 215

“Lord Rintoul” (Little Minister), xxv. [265]

“Lost Sir Massingberd” (Payn), xxiv. 7, 177

Loti, Pierre (M. Viaud), xxiv. 308

“Loudon Dodd” (Wrecker), xxv. [24], [172] & n.1

“Louis XIV. et la Révocation de l’Édit de Nantes” (Michelet), xxiii. 69

“Louse, The” (Burns), xxiv. 256

“Love in the Valley” (Meredith), xxiv. 54; xxv. [214], [390]

“Lovelace” (Clarissa Harlowe), xxiii. 210

Love, young, advice on, xxiii. 358

Lowell, John Russell, xxiv. 107

Low, Mrs. W. H., xxiv. 107, 202, 217

Low, W. H., xxiv. 107, 202, 217, 234, 250, 251, 255, 288, 369, 390; xxv. [25], [111]; illustrated edition by, of “Lamia,” xxiv. 142, 166; dedication of, xxiv. 169-71; letters to, xxiv. 57, 63, 72, 89, 115, 142, 153, 166, 169, 172, 177, 185, 217, 230, 245, 346; xxv. [378]

Lübeck, s.s., passage on, xxiv. 375 et seq.; xxv. [48], [50], [53], [81]

Ludgate Hill, s.s., passage in, xxiv. 110, 230, 232; xxiv. 235 et seq.

Lully, J.B., gavotte by, xxiv. 188-9

Lysaght, Sidney, xxv. [385]-6, [388], [405], [415] & n. 1; books by, xxv. [390]; visit from, xxv. [374]


Macaire, play (with Henley), xxiv. 146, 147

Macbeth (Shakespeare), xxiv. 57

M’Carthy, Justin, xxiv. 173

McClure, S. S., publisher, relations with, xxiv. 234, 252, 321, 379; xxv. [120]

McCrie, —, xxiii. 117

Macdonald, David, xxiii. 20

Macdonald, Flora, xxiii. 298

Macdonald, George, xxiv. 248

Macdonald, J. H. A., xxiii. 114

Macgregor, clan, xxv. [293], [346]

M’Gregor-Stevenson connection, question of, xxv. [440]

Mackay, Professor Æneas, xxiii. 282; letters to, xxiii. 309

Mackintosh family, xxiii. 169

M’Laren, Duncan, xxiii. 96, 97, 114

MacMahon, President, xxiii. 116

Macmillan, Alexander, xxiii. 151

Macmillan’s Magazine, xxiii. intro. xvii. 204; contributions to, xxiii. 125, 149, 151

Macpherson, Miss Fanny (Lady Holroyd), xxv. [83] & n. 1

Madeira, plan to visit, xxiv. 328

“Mademoiselle Merquem” (Sand), xxiii. 87

Magazine of Art, contributions to, xxiii. 333-4; xxiv. 54, 57, 115, 181; xxv. [97], [123], [398], [423]

Majendie, Colonel, xxiv. 283

“Malade Imaginaire” (Molière), xxiv. 123

“Malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre,” xxiii. 102

Malie, abode and following of Malietoa, xxv. [6], [9] et seq.

Malietoa Laupepa, xxv. [9], [176], [234], [466]; friendliness with, xxv. [10]; and Mataafa, troubles concerning, xxv. [6]-9 et seq.

Manasquan, at, xxiv. 234, 286-8

Manchester Ship Canal, xxiv. 135

Manhattan, magazine, xxiv. 57, 90

“Manse, The,” xxiii. 4; xxv. [301]

Manu’a, islands of, “queen” of, xxv. [407]-8

Marat, xxiv. 183

Marbot, “Memoires” of, xxv. [274], 321

“Marche funèbre” (Chopin), xxiii. 139

Marcus Aurelius, xxiv. 183

“Marden, Colonel” (Clarissa Harlowe), xxiii. 210

“Margery Bonthron,” xxiii. 171

“Marion,” xxiii. 307

Mariposa, s.s., xxv. [346]

“Markheim,” xxiii. intro. xx., xxiii.; xxiv. 125, 213

“Marmont’s Memoirs,” xxiv. 134

Marot, Clement, poems by, xxiii. 108

“Marplot, The” (Lysaght), xxv. [390]

Marquesas Islands, visited, xxiv. 290, 293, 371

Marryat, Captain, works by, ordered by R. L. S., xxiv. 338

Marseilles, at, xxiv. 5, 12-14, 98

Marshall Islands, visited, xxiv. 292

Martial, xxiv. 82

Martin, A. Patchett, letters to, xxiii. 208, 209

“Martin’s Madonna,” xxiii. 171

Marvell, Andrew, xxv. [46]

Mary, Queen of Scots, xxiii. 62

“Mary Wollstonecraft” (Mrs. Pennell), xxiv. 149

“Master of Ballantrae,” xxiii. intro. xxiii.; xxiv. 235, 265, 268-70, 274, 276, 278, 279, 291, 314, 317, 328, 338, 339, 346, 349, 360, 369, 370, 377, 398; xxv. [43], [171] & n. 2, [250], [357]; illustrations, xxiv. 319, 320; original plan of, xxv. [396]; paper on, xxv. [376]; suggested French translation, xxv. [52]

Mataafa, xxiv. 370; xxv. [176], [256]; troubles concerning, xxv. [6]-9 et seq., [93] et seq., [280], [332]-3, [350]; visits to, xxv. [193] et seq., [242]; with Lady Jersey, xxv. [228] et seq.

Matlock, visited, xxiv. 105, 189

Maupassant, Guy de, xxiv. 383

Maxwell, Sir Herbert, xxv. [437]; letters to, xxv. [440], [453]

“Mazeppa” (Byron), xxiii. 132

Medallion portrait by St. Gaudens, xxv. [410]

Medea (Ordered South), xxiii. 86 & n. 1

Mediterranean, impression of, xxiii. 104, 105

Meiklejohn, Hugh, xxv. [269], [450], [451]

Meiklejohn, Professor John, xxiii. 263, 316; compliments on “Burns” article, xxiii. 241; letters to, xxiii. 263; xxv. [450]

“Mein Herz ist im Hochland,” xxiii. 41

Melford, xxiii. 56

Melville, Herman, xxiv. 295, 348, 381

“Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin,” xxiv. 106-7, 150, 169, 174, 187, 225

“Memoirs of a Cavalier” (Defoe), xxiv. 101

“Memoirs of an Islet,” essay, xxiii. 23

“Memoirs of Henry Shovel,” unfinished, xxiv. 402

“Memorials” (Laing), xxv. [293]

“Memorials of a Scottish Family,” projected (see also “Family of Engineers”), xxiv. 279

“Memories and Portraits,” xxiii. 56, 318 n. 1; xxiv. 96 n. 1, 214, 215, 230, 231, 257; xxv. [51], [53], [301] & n. 1

“Men and Books,” xxiii. 86

Menken, Adah, xxiii. 275

Mentone, at, xxiii. 55, 77, 81 et seq., 143-4

Meredith, George, xxiii. 183, 311; xxiv. 97, 278 & n. 1; xxv. [351]-2; letters to, xxv. [343], [390]

“Merry Men, The,” xxiii. 282, 316, 317, 321; xxiv. 35, 90, 125, 213, 215; xxv. [353]; criticisms on, xxiii. 319; dedication, xxiv. 211; germ of, xxiii. 308; places described in, xxiii. 317

Michaels, barber, xxiii. 244

Michelet, —, xxv. [304]

Middleton, Miss, letter to, xxv. [428]

Millais, Sir John E., xxiv. 139; on R. L. S., as artist, xxiii. intro. xxx.

Milne, Mrs., letter to, xxiv. 70

Milson, John, xxiv. 130

“Mimes” (Schwob), xxv. [409]

“Misadventure in France, A,” essay, xxiv. 67-8

“Misadventures of John Nicholson” (Yule-Tide), xxiii. 12; xxiv. 211, 214; xxv. [57] & n. 1

“Miscellanies” (Edinburgh edition), xxv. [33], [376], [397] & n. 1, [424]

“Misérables, Les” (V. Hugo), xxiii. 129 n. 1

Missions and missionary work, xxv. [10], n. 1, [33], [56], [57], [203], [410]-11, [422]

Möe, Princess, xxiv. 308, 309, 313

“Mobray” (Clarissa Harlowe), xxiii. 210

Mödestine, the donkey of the Cévennes journey, xxiii. 218

Molière, xxiii. 69; plays, xxiv. 96, 123

“Moll Flanders” (Defoe), xxiv. 101

Molokai, visited, xxiv. 291, 345, 349 et seq., 356

Monaco, at, xxiii. 93

Monastier, visit to, xxiii. 217

Monkhouse, Cosmo, letters to, xxiv. 85, 95

Monroe, Miss, letters to, xxiv. 191, 193, 261

“Monsieur Auguste” (Méry), xxiii. 257, 258

Montagu, Basil, xxv. [29] n. 2

Montaigne, xxiv. 130, 144

Monterey, xxiv. 36; ranche life at, xxiii. 229, 234, 235, 236

“Monterey, California,” xxiii. 241, 242

Montpellier, at, xxiv. 4

“Moonstone, The” (Wilkie Collins), xxiii. 18

Moors, H. J., xxiv. 292, 370, 371; xxv. [10], [28], [29], [30], [31], [40], [96], [107]

“Morality, the, of the Profession of Letters” (Fortnightly), xxiii. 281

“More New Arabian Nights,” xxiv. 106, 108, 114, 127, 139, 140, 142

Morley, Charles, of the Pall Mall Gazette, xxiv. 125

“Morley Ernstein” (G. P. R. James), xxiv. 75

Morley, John (Viscount Morley), xxiii. 127, 132, 226, 268

Morning Star, missionary ship, cruise in, projected, xxiv. 337, 338-9, 340, 343, 384

Morris, William, letter to, xxv. [162]

Morse, Captain, xxv. [222]

Morse, Miss, letter to, xxv. [253]

Mount Chessie, xxiv. 44

Mount Saint Helena, xxiii. 277

Mount Vaea, burial-place of R. L. S., xxv. [9], [10], n. 1, [458] et seq.

Mulinuu, abode and party of Malietoa, xxv. [9] et seq., [107], [330], [332], [333], [370]

“Mulvaney” (Soldiers Three), letter as from, xxv. [46]

“Murder of Red Colin,” projected, xxiii. 331

Murders, famous, volume on, projected by Gosse and R. L. S., xxiii. 338, 350

“Murders in the Rue Morgue” (Poe), xxiii. intro. xxiii

Mures, the, of Caldwell, xxv. [358]

Murphy, Tommy, a lost child, story of, xxiii. 161, 162

Murrayfield, xxv. [57]

Murray, Grahame, xxiii. 90

Murray, W. C., xxv. [69]

Musset, Alfred de, comedies of, xxiii. 212

Mutiny, Indian, novel on, projected, xxiv. 283-4

“My Boy Tammie,” air, xxiii. 113

“My First Book,” series in Idler, xxv. [33], [376], [429]

Myers, F. W. H., letter to, xxiv. 184


Napoleon III., xxv. [250], [319]

Nares, Captain (The Wrecker), xxv.[269]

Navigator Islands, xxiii. 180, 205; xxiv, 405

Navy, British, men of, xxv. [351]-2

Nebraska, aspect of, xxiii. 233-4

Nerli, Count, xxv. [228]

Neruda, Mme. Norman, xxiii. 169, 198

Nether Carsewell, xxv. [342], [346]

“New Arabian Nights,” xxiii. 185, 218; xxiv. 7, 256

New Caledonia, visited, xxiv. 293, 385, 392

“New Poems” (Edmund Gosse), xxiii. 245-6

Newport, U.S.A., at, xxiv. 233, 237-8, 255

New Quarterly, contributions to, xxiii. 237

New Review, contribution to, xxv. [18] n. 1

New Year’s wish, a, xxiii. 212

New York, at, xxiv. 233-4, 238

New York Ledger, contribution to, xxiv. 361

New York Tribune, editor of, letter to, xxiv. 7

New Zealand, xxiv. 405

Nice, visits to, xxiii. 84; xxiv. 4, 6, 79, 92

Nile Campaigns, xxiv. 81

Noël-Pardon, M., xxiv. 394

“Noll and Nell,” poem (Martin), xxiii. 210

“Norma,” opera, xxiii. 252

“Northern Lights” (see also “Family of Engineers”), xxiii. 4, 10; xxv. [322]

Norwood, at, xxiii. 57

“Note on Realism” (Magazine of Art), xxiv. 59, 62, 181

“Notes on the Movements of Young Children,” xxiii. 133, 143 & n. 2

“Notre Dame” (Hugo), xxiii. 129 n. 1

Noumea, visited, xxiv. 293, 392, 396

Nukahiva Island, at, xxiv. 290, 293

Nulivae Bridge, at, xxv. [223]


“Ode to Duty” (Wordsworth), xxv. [173] & n. 1

“Ode to the Cuckoo,” authorship of, xxiii. 71, 72

O’Donovan Rossa, xxiii. 321

“Œdipus King” (Sophocles), xxiv. 114

“Olalla,” xxiv. 106

Old English History (Freeman’s), xxv. [117]

“Old Gardener,” xxv. [404]

“Old Mortality” (Scott), xxiii. 129 n. 1; essay on, xxiv. 6, 68, 96

“Old Pacific Capital” (Fraser’s Magazine), xxv. [97]

Oliphant, Mrs., xxiv. 370, 382

Omission, art of, xxiv. 60

Omond, —, xxiv. 178

“Omoo” (Melville), xxiv. 348

“One of the Grenvilles” (Lysaght), xxv. [390]

“Only Child,” projected, xxiv. 99

“On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places,” xxiii. 15, 151-3

“On the Principal Causes of Silting in Estuaries” (T. Stevenson), xxiv. 135

“On some Aspects of Burns” (Cornhill), xxiii. 224, 227

“On some Ghostly Companions at a Spa,” xxiii. 285

“Operations of War” (Hamley), xxiii. intro. xxxiv.

Orange, at, xxiii. 80

“Ordered South,” xxiii. intro. xxvii., 56, 77, 83, 86, 87 & n. 1, 116, 122, 126, 267; published, xxiii. 125

Organ-grinder episode, xxiii. 155-6

Ori a Ori, chief, xxiv. 291, 302, 304, 306-7, 309-10 et seq., 317, 334; letter from, xxiv. 332-3, 337

“Origines de la France Contemporaine” (Taine), xxiv. 258; xxv. [111]-2, [319]

“Origines” (Renan), xxv. [304]

Orkneys and Shetlands, tour of, xxiii. 10, 24

Orlando, H.M.S., xxv. [329]

Orr, Fred, letter to, xxv. [127]

“Orsino” (Twelfth Night), R. L. S. as, xxiii. 175, 176

Osbourne, Lloyd, xxiii. intro. xvii., 300, 348 et seq.; xxiv. 28, 139, 178, 198, 199, 201, 290, 309, 323, 330, 341, 366, 392, 396, 399, 402; xxv. [3], [21] & n. 2, [50], [52], [67], [78], [96], [98], [99], [390], [445]; account by, of death of R. L. S., xxv. [457] et seq.; collaboration with (see also “Wrecker”), xxiv. 235, 249, 250, 256, 283-4, 328, 361, 367, 379, 380, 389, 399, 402; xxv. [347]-9, [437]-8; illness, xxv. [152]

Osbourne, Mrs., see Stevenson, Mrs. R. L.

Ossianic controversy, xxiii. 298

Othello (Shakespeare), xxv. [51]

Otis, Captain, xxiv. 234, 290

Otway, essay on (Gosse), xxiv. 45

Our Lady of the Snows, monastery, poem on (Underwoods), xxiii. 221-2

“Owl, The,” projected, xxv. [315] & n. 1

“Oxford Dictionary of the English Language” (Murray), xxiv. 37


P—N, John, letter to, xxv. [358]

P—n, Russell, letter to, xxv. [359]

Pacific Ocean, xxiii. 240

Pacific voyages, see “In the South Seas”

Page, H. A., pseudonym for Dr. Japp, q.v.

Pago-pago harbour, xxv. [8], [65]

Painters and their art, xxiv. 60-1

“Painters’ Camp, in the Highlands” (Hamerton), xxiii. 216

Pall Mall Gazette, contributions to, xxiii. 281, 346; xxiv. 120, 125, 130, 131, 227; xxv. [397]; Henley’s articles in, xxiii. 238

“Pan’s Pipes,” xxiii. 212; xxv. [301]

Papeete (Tahitian Islands), xxiv. 291, 296, 308, 314

Paperchase, Sunday, xxv. [422]

Paris Exhibition of 1878, xxiii. 183

Paris, visits to, xxiii. 183, 305; xxiv. 105, 107

Parker, Lieutenant and Mrs., xxv. [29]

“Parliament Close” (Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh), xxiii. 216

Parliament House, Edinburgh, verses on, xxiii. 193-4

Parnessiens, proposed paper on, xxiii. 168

“Paston Letters,” xxiii. 203

“Pastoral” (Longman’s), xxiv. 221; xxv. [301]

Paton, John, and Co., xxiv. 252

Paul, C. Kegan, xxiii. 212

Paumotus atolls, visited, xxiv. 290, 293-4

“Pavilion, The, on the Links,” xxiii. 229, 238, 249, 256, 259, 262, 267

Payne, John, xxv. [427]

Payn, James, xxiv. 355; handwriting of, xxv. [365]; letters to, xxiv. 176, 355, 381; xxv. [425], [446]; novel by, xxv. [171]; works of, xxiv. 7-9

“Pearl Fisher” (with Lloyd Osbourne, see “Ebb Tide”), changes of name for story, xxv. [288] et seq.

“Pegfurth Bannatyne,” xxiii. 361, 362

Pella, letter from, xxiii. 115, 128

Pembroke, Earl of, xxv. [290]

“Penn” (H. Dixon), xxiii. 277

Pennell, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph, xxiv. 149; letter to, xxiv. 149

Penn, William, article on, projected, xxiii. 265

“Penny plain and Twopence coloured,” essay, xxiv. 93

“Penny Whistles,” see “Child’s Garden of Verse”

“Pentland Hills” (Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh), xxiii. 216

“Pentland Rising,” xxv. [397]

Penzance, visit to, xxiii. 206

Pepys, Samuel, xxiv. 29, 183; essay on, xxiii. 281

“Petit Jehan de Saintre” (La Sale), essay on projected, xxiii. 267

“Petits Poèmes en Prose,” xxiii. 195, 196, 197

“Petronius Arbiter,” xxiv. 83

“Pew” (Admiral Guinea), xxiv. 119, 120

Peyrat, Napoleon, xxiii. 307

Pharos, s.y., xxv. [98] & n. 1

“Phasellulus loquitur,” xxiv. 116

Pheidias, xxiii. 159

“Philosophy of Umbrellas” (with Ferrier), xxv. [398]

Picts, the, xxv. [434]-6

“Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh,” xxiii. 185, 211, 216, 218

“Pilgrim’s Progress” (Bunyan), xxiii. 203; Bagster’s edition, essay on cuts in, xxiii. 334

Pilsach, Baron Senfft von, President of the Council, Samoa, xxv. [7], [95] et seq., [100]-1, [275], [281], [286], [305], [364], [376]

“Pinkerton” (Wrecker), xxiv. 368; xxv. [141] & n. 1, [146], [378]

“Pioneering in New Guinea” (Chalmers), xxv. [39]

Piquet, xxv. [428]

“Pirate, The” (Marryat), xxiii. 329

“Pirate, The” (Scott), xxiii. 318

“Pirbright Smith,” xxiii. 361

“Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials of Scotland,” xxv. [271], [293]

Pitlochry, at, xxiii. 282, 306

“Plain Speaker” (Hazlitt), xxiv. 130

Platz, Herr, xxiv. 194

Poe, Edgar, xxiii. intro. xxiii., 166; xxiv. 83

Poems by Baildon, technique discussed, xxv. [377]

Poepoe, Joseph, xxiv. 330

Poland, projected visit to, xxiii. 151, 152, 155

Pollington, Lord, xxiv. 260

Pollock, ——, xxiv. 36

Pomaré V., King, xxiv. 309

Poor folk, charity of, xxv. [209]-10

“Poor Thing, The,” xxiii. 141

Poquelin, ——, xxiv. 123

Portfolio, The, xxiii. intro. xvii.; contributions to, xxiii. 58, 77, 141, 146, 151, 152, 153, 164, 166, 168, 185, 216; xxv. [397]-8; Colvin’s work for, xxiii. 178

Portobello, beach incident, xxiii. 73; train incident, xxiii. 63

“Portrait of a Lady” (H. James), xxiv. 263

Positivism, studies in, xxiii. 159

Pratt, ——, fables by, xxv. [49]

“Prince de Galles,” xxiii., 356

“Prince of Grünewald,” see “Prince Otto”

“Prince Otto” (Forest State q.v.), xxiii. 229, 265, 266, 267, 278, 353; xxiv. 5, 23, 24, 34, 35, 36, 54, 66, 68, 73, 81, 106, 110, 142, 154, 173, 181; xxv. [53], [376]; criticisms, xxiv. 191; publication, xxiv. 138; reviews, xxiv. 155-6

“Princess Casamassima” (H. James), xxiv. 160 n. 1

Princes Street, Edinburgh, xxiii. 72, 74

Pringle, Janet, xxv. [361]

“Printemps, Le,” group (Rodin), xxiv. 202, 209

Prisoners, Samoan, gratitude of, see “Road of Loving Hearts”

Privateers, enquiry on, xxv. [380] & n. 1

Proctor, Mr. B. W., xxv. [29] & n. 2

“Professor Rensselaer,” xxiii. 249

Pronouns, “direct and indirect,” quip on, xxv. [174]

“Providence and the Guitar,” xxiii. intro. xx., 185, 219, 248, 268

Publishers, xxv. [123]-5

“Pulvis et Umbra” (Scribner’s), xxiv. 235, 253, 264, 274,284, 384; xxv. [123] & n. 1

“Pupil, The” (H. James), xxv. [132]

Purcell, Rev. ——, xxiii. 332-3; xxiv. 159

Purple passages in literature, xxv. [72]-3

“Pye,” ——, xxv. [30]

Pyle, Howard, xxv. [164] n. 1


Queen, ship, xxv. [353]

Queensferry, xxiii. 68, 69

Queen’s River, xxv. [417]

“Quentin Durward” (Scott), xxiii. 129 n. 1; xxiv. 91


“Rab and his Friends” (Brown) xxiii. 296

Raiatea, xxiv. 308 et seq.

Raleigh, Walter, on restrained egoism in literature, xxiii. intro. xxvi., xxvii.

“Randal” (The Ebb Tide), xxv. [187]

“Random Memories: the Coast of Fife” (Scribner’s), xxiii. 12, 15; xxiv. 235, 387; xxv. [97], [301]

Rarotonga, xxv. [269]

“Raskolnikoff” (Le Crime et le Châtiment), xxiv. 182

Rawlinson, Miss, letters to, xxiv. 227; xxv. [274]; verses to, xxiv. 227

Rawlinson, Mrs., xxiv. 227

Reade, Charles, xxiii. 129 n. 1

“Real Thing” (H. James), xxv. [322]

“Redgauntlet” (Scott), xxiii. intro. xxiii., 287 n. 1

Reformation, studies in, xxiii. 159

“Refugees” (Doyle), xxv. [340]

Reid, Captain Mayne, works of, xxv. [13]

“Reign of Law” (Duke of Argyll), xxiii. 67 & n. 1

“Rembrandt,” article on, by Colvin (Edinburgh Review), xxiii. 225

“Reminiscences” (Carlyle), xxiii. 301

Rémy, Père, xxv. [327]

Renaissance story, projected, xxiii. 167, 168

Renan, Ernest, works, xxv. [304]

Rennie, John, xxiv. 121

Resignation, xxiv. 62, 76 et seq.

“Restoration Dramatists,” essay on (Lamb), xxiv. 85

Retrospective musings, xxv. [437]-8

Revenge, Christian doctrine of, xxiii. 214

Rhone, the, xxiii. 79

“Richard Feverel” (Meredith), xxv. [265]

Richard III. (Shakespeare), xxiv. 398; xxv. [51]

Richardson, Samuel, novelist, xxiii. 129 n. 1

Richmond, Sir W. B., xxiv. 107; portrait by, xxiv. 202

Richmond, s.s., xxiv. 337, 343

Richmond, stay at, xxiv. 104

“Rideau Cramoisi, Le” (d’Aurévilly), xxv. [314], [380]

Ringarooma, ship, xxv. [268]-9

“Rising Sun,” projected, xxiv. 403

“Ritter von dem heiligen Geist” (Heine), xxiii. 88 & n. 1

R. L. S. Society, Cincinnati, xxv. [384]

“R. L. Stevenson in Wick” (Margaret H. Roberton), xxiii. 15 n. 1

“Roads,” paper on, xxiii. 55, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 67, 76, 77, 117, 119, 121, 141, 143, 201; xxv. [397]-8

“Road, the, of Loving Hearts,” xxv. [374], [431] et seq., [441], [442], [446], [459] et seq.; inscription on, xxv. [441], [446]; speech by R. L. S. at opening of, xxv. [441], [446], [462] et seq.

Robert, Louis, xxiv. 28

Roberts, Earl, xxiv. 81

Robertson, —, xxiii. 117

Robertson’s Sermons, xxiv, 268

Robinet, —, painter, xxiii. 98, 99

“Robin Run-the-Hedge,” unfinished, xxiv. 402

“Robinson Crusoe” (Defoe), xxiv. 101, 103

Rob Roy, xxv. [293]

“Rob Roy” (Scott), xxiv. 91

“Rocambole” (Ponson du Terrail), xxiii. 254

Roch, Valentine, xxiv. 110, 238 et passim

“Roderick Hudson” (H. James), xxiv. 262-3, 265

Rodin, Auguste, sculptor, xxiv. 107, 202; letters to, xxiv. 209, 216

Rodriguez Albano, xxiii. 244

“Rois en Exil” (Daudet), xxiii. 346

“Romance” (Longman’s), xxiv. 181

Roman Law, studies in, xxiii. 126

Rondeaux, xxiii. 188-9

“Rosa Quo Locorum,” xxv. [33]

“Rose,” character of (Meredith), xxiv. 97

“Rosen, Countess von” (Forest State), xxiii. 266

Ross, Dr. Fairfax, xxv. [348] & n. 1, [350]

Ross family, xxiii. 28

Ross of Mull, used in “The Merry Men,” xxiii. 41

Rossetti, D. G., xxiv. 239

Ross, Rev. Alexander and Mrs., xxiii. 27

Rothschild, Baron, xxiii. 195

“Rover,” verses (Gosse), xxiv. 27

Rowfant, xxiv. 215

“Rowfant Rhymes” (Locker-Lampson), xxiv. 205

Royal Society of Edinburgh, xxiv. 118, 135

Royat, visits to, actual and projected, xxiv. 39, 98, 99 et seq.; xxv. [105], [131]

Ruedi, Dr., xxiii. 297

Rui = Louis, in Samoan pronunciation, xxiv. 307, 310 et alibi

Ruskin, John, xxiii. 117; xxv. [397]

Russel family, xxiii. 21, 22

Russel, Miss Sara, xxiii. 21, 22

Russel, Mrs., xxiii. 22

Russel, Sheriff, xxiii. 21, 22

Ruysdael, —, painting by, xxiii. 178


Sachsenhausen, xxiii. 43

Sagas, love of, xxiii. 332; xxiv. 207; xxv. [162], [211]

“St. Agnes’ Eve” (Keats), xxiv. 170

St. Augustine, xxiii. intro. xxiv.

St. Gaudens, Augustus, sculptor, xxiv. 170, 234, 238, 390; xxv. [25]; letters to, xxv. [308], [341], [410]; medallion portrait by, xxiv. 238-9, 250, 255

St. Gaudens, Homer, letters to, xxiv. 287

St. Germain, at, xxiii. 305

“St. Ives,” xxv. [281], [347]-8, [371], [375], [380] & n. 1, [387], [392], [403], [405], [414], [430], [450]; inception of, xxv. [285]-6; parallel to, xxv. [442]; scheme for, xxv. [287]

St. John, apostle, and the Revelation (in Renan’s book), xxv. [304]

St. Paul, xxv. [304]; teaching of, xxiii. 214

Saintsbury, Professor G., xxiii. 307

Salvini, T., article on, xxiv. 72

Samoa and the Samoans for children (letters to Miss Boodle on), xxv. [147], [217], [243]

Samoa, climate of, xxv. [250], [278], [333], [348] n. 1, [350], [419] contrasted with Europe, xxv. [355] exile in, xxv. [349] letters from, xxv. [9] et seq. missionary work, in, interest in, xxv. [10] & n. 1; xxv. [33], [56], [57] rain in, xxv. [443]-4 rivers of, xxv. [132]-3 et seq. visit to, and settlement in, xxiv. 290 et seq. war trouble in, projected work on, xxiv. 370, 379, 380

Samoan character, xxv. [381], [432] chiefs, road made by, see “Road of Loving Hearts” history, see “Footnote to History” language, xxv. [49]; study of, xxv. [181], [203] politics, apologies for dwelling on, xxv. [388], [445]; interest in. xxv. [4] et passim prisoners (chiefs), see “Road of Loving Hearts”

Samoa Times, xxiv. 392

“Samuel Pepys,” essay (Cornhill), xxiii. 281

Sanchez, Adolpho, xxiii. 240

Sanchez, Mrs., xxv. [257]

Sand, George, writings of, xxiii. 87

Sandwich Islands, xxiv. 292, 340

“San Francisco,” xxiii. 342

San Francisco, stay at, and visits to, xxiii. 229, 230; xxiv. 234, 283, 286, 289, 290

“Sannazzaro,” xxiii. 167

Saône and Rhone, projected journey down and book on, xxiv. 98, 99

Saranac Lake, at, xxiv. 233-4, 240 et seq.; xxv. [123] n. 1

Sargent, John S., artist, xxiv. 105, 167; portrait by, xxiv. 117, 155

Saturday Review, xxiii. 58, 69, 77

Savage Island, at, xxiv. 387

Savile Club, the, xxiii. 124, 127, 133, 186, 263; xxiv. 187

Schmidt, Emil, President of Council, Samoa, xxv. [416], [424]

“Schooner Farallone,” see “Ebb Tide”

Schopenhauer, studies in, xxiii. 159

Schwob, Marcel, letters to, xxiv. 327, 397; xxv. [51], [409]

Sciatica, xxiv. 92

“Scotch Church and Union” (Defoe), xxiv. 101

Scotch labourer and politics, xxiii. 61

Scotch murder trials, books on, asked for, xxv. [271]

Scotch songs, Russian pleasure in, xxiii. 113

“Scotland and the Union,” projected, xxiii. 297

Scotland, last visit, xxiv. 227

Scotland, whisky, etc., of, xxiii. 41

Scotsman, xxv. [398]

Scots Observer, contribution to, xxv. [174]

“Scots wha hae,” air, xxiii. 113

Scott, Dr., letter to, xxiv. 374

Scott, Sir Walter (see also Waverley Novels), xxiii. 65 & n. 1, 111, 130 n. 1, 264, 333; xxiv. 75, 76, 84, 91, 382; xxv. [86], [110], [154], [164], [167], [371]; love of action, xxiii. intro. xxxiv.; nobility of character, xxiii. intro. xxxv.; novels, xxv. [24]; novels contrasted with R. L. S.’s, xxiii. intro. xxiii.

Scribner, C., xxiv. 233, 253-4, 390; xxv. [25], [380], [392]; letters to, xxiv. 252

Scribner, Messrs., verse published by, xxiv. 395

Scribner’s Magazine, xxiv. 110, 142, 253, 258; contributions, actual and suggested, xxiv. 233, 235, 239, 240, 247, 252, 268, 277, 287, 367, 377 et seq., 387, 393; xxv. [86], [97], [110], [115], [171] n. 1

“Sea-Cook, The” (see also “Treasure Island”), xxiii. 326-7

Sedan, xxv. [250], [318]

Seed, Hon. J., xxiii. 179; xxiv. 405

Seeley, Professor, style of, xxiv. 55-6

Seeley, Richmond, publisher and editor (see also “Portfolio”), xxiii. intro. xvii., 141, 142, 143, 148, 398

Sellar, Mrs., xxiii. 115

“Sensations d’Italie” (Bourget), xxv. [127], [130]-1

“Sentimental Journey” (Sterne), xxiii. intro. xxiii.

“Sentimental Tommy” (Barrie), xxv. [419] & n. 1

Seraphina (see also “Prince Otto”), xxiii. intro. xx.

“Service of Man” (Cotter Morison), xxiv. 219-20

Seumanutafa, Chief, of Apia, xxv. [26], [48]-9, [105]

“Seventeenth Century Studies” (Gosse), xxiv. 45

Sewall, Mr., American Consul at Samoa, xxv. [4], [29], [58], [65]-6

“Shadow, The, on the Bed” (Mrs. R. L. S.), xxiii. 308, 316, 321

Shairp, Professor, xxiii. 191, 263

Shaltigoe, wreck at, xxiii. 22

Shannon, W. J., xxiii. 332-3

Shaw, Bernard, appreciation of, xxiv. 270-1

Shelley, Lady, xxiv. 105, 149, 177, 179, 211; xxv. [131]

“Shelley Papers” (Dowden), xxiv. 211, 212

Shelley, P. B., xxiv. 177-8, 212; 372, 373-4; and Keats, xxiv. 211

Shelley, Sir P. B., xxiv. 177-8, 211, 373; xxv. [458]

“Sherlock Holmes” (Doyle), xxv. [299]

Shetland, visited, xxiii. 10, 24

“Shovels of Newton French,” projected, xxv. [5], [55]-6, [82]-3, [172]

Sick child, episode of, xxiii. 230, 269

“Sign of the ship” causerie (Lang), xxiv. 278, 388

“Sigurd” (W. Morris), xxiii. 334; xxv. [162]

Silverado, life at, xxiii. 278

“Silverado Squatters,” xxiii. 230, 279, 283, 352, 355; xxiv. 5, 26, 27, 30 & n. 1, 34, 56, 66, 67, 73, 92; xxv. [423]; serial issue of, xxiv. 55

“Silver Ship,” see “Casco”

Simoneau, Jules, xxiii. 239, 240, 244; xxiv. 423; letters to, xxiv. 36, 41

Simoneau, Mrs., xxiv. 42

“Simon Fraser” (Catriona), xxv. [351] & n. 1

Simpson, Sir Walter, xxiii. 36,43, 46, 49, 69, 89, 124, 159, 174, 182, 187, 259, 341, 353; xxiv. 47; letter to, xxiv. 117, 229, 242; yachting trip with, xxiii. 124, 139, 140

Simson, Dr., xxiv. 91

Sinclair, Miss Amy, xxiii. 24, 27-8

Sinclair, Sir Tollemache, xxiii. 27

Sinico, —, singer, xxiii. 166

“Sire de Malétroit’s Door,” xiii. 184, 206, 207, 211, 248

Siron, aubergiste, Barbizon, xxiii. 187

Sitwell, Mrs. (see also Colvin, Lady), xxiii. 54, 300; xxiv. 335; xxv. [85]; letter to, from Mrs. R. L. Stevenson, xxiv. 331; letters to, from R. L. S., xxiii. 57, 58, 61, 63, 66, 68, 71, 74, 77, 83, 86, 91, 93, 101, 103, 104, 110, 115, 121, 125, 127, 131, 133, 137, 139, 140, 144, 148, 149, 151, 153, 155, 156, 158, 161, 164, 166, 168, 171, 174, 175, 177, 180 bis, 181, 187, 189, 197, 198, 200, 203, 205, 207, 323; xxiv. 24; xxv. [393]

Skelt, xxiv. 57, 93

Skene, William Forbes, xxv. [434]-5

Skerryvore, article on (Archer), xxiv. 305

“Skerryvore” (house), xxiv. 105, 109, 141, 196, 252; xxv. [31] n. 2, [75]

Skinner, Mr., xxv. [413]

Slade School, xxiv. 39

“Sleeper Awakened,” xxv. [314] & n. 1

Smeoroch, Skye terrier, xxiv. 77 & n. 1; xxv. [429]

Smiles, Samuel, xxiv. 121

Smith, Adam, xxiii. 72

Smith, Captain, xxiii. 235

Smith, Rev. George, xxiii. 4; xxiv. 265 n. 1

Soalu, Chief, xxv. [460]

Society for Psychical Research, Journals of, xxv. [299]

“Soldiers Three” (Kipling), xxv. [46]

“Solemn Music” (Milton), xxiii. 294

“Solomon Crabb,” xxiii. 343-4

“Solution, The” (Lesson of the Master, H. James), xxiv. 382

“Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle” (Wordsworth), xxiii. 315 & n. 1

“Song of To-morrow,” xxiii. 141

“Songs of Scotland without words, for the Pianoforte” (Surrenne), xxiii. 113

“Songs of Travel,” xxiv. 190, 239, 337, 362, 375, 378, 395; xxv. [349] & n. 1

“Sonnet to England” (Martin), xxiii. 210

“Sophia Scarlett,” proposed, xxv. [144], [152]-3, [172], [187], [281]

Sophocles, translation (Campbell), xxiv. 113

Sorrow, discipline of, xxiv. 163

Soudan affairs, xxiv. 107

Southey, R., xxiii. 302

“South Sea Ballads,” xxiv. 298-9, 317, 321, 380, 395, 399

“South Sea Bubble” (Earl of Pembroke), xxv. [153] n. 1; on Kava, xxv. [183] n. 1; on Samoan streams, xxiv. 133 n. 1

“South Sea Idylls” (Stoddard), xxiv. 180

South Sea Islands, call of, xxiii. 180, 205

“South Sea Letters,” published first as “The South Seas,” later as “In the South Seas,” q.v.; selection from, projected, xxv. [423]

South Seas, cruises in, xxiv. 233 et seq., 286 et seq.

“South Sea Yarns” (with Lloyd Osbourne), projected, xxiv. 361, 367, 379; xxv. [397]

Spain, xxiii. 119

Spectator, xxiii. 239, 264; xxv. [58]

“Spectator” (Addison’s), style of, xxiii. 252

Speculative Society, Edinburgh University, xxiii. 35, 64, 184, 312; xxiv. 178

Speed, —, xxv. [210]

Spencer, —, xxv. [74]-5

Spencer, Herbert, xxiii. 169

Sperber, German warship, xxv. [29]

Speyside, in, xxiii. 284

“Spring Sorrow” (Henley), xxiii. 186

“Spring time,” xxiii. 191, 193, 196, 197, 202

“Squaw Men,” projected, xxiii. 329

“Squire” (Story of a Lie), xxiii. 249

“Squire Trelawney” (Treasure Island), xxiii. 326-7

Stansfield, —, xxv. [269]

“Stepfather’s Story,” projected, xxiii. 207

Stephen, Leslie, xxiii. intro. xvii., 174, 184, 205, 206, 207, 241, 256, 257, 264, 267, 302, 311; xxiv. 47; letter from with appreciation of “Victor Hugo,” xxiii. 129 et seq. & n. 1; introduction by, of R. L. S. and Henley, xxiii. 172; on “Forest Notes,” xxiii. 201, 202; testimonial from, xxiii. 316

Stephenson, —, xxiii. 25

Sterne, Laurence, xxiii. intro. xxiii.

Stevenson, Alan, xxv. [335], [401], [436]

Stevenson family, inquiries concerning, xxv. [293], [335], [342], [357], [399], [435]-7

Stevenson, Hugh, xxv. [335]

Stevenson, James, xxv. [334]

Stevenson, James S., letter to, xxv. [334], [342]

Stevenson, J. Horne, xxv. [293], [345], [435]; letter to, xxv. [357]

Stevenson, John, xxv. [358]

Stevenson, Katharine (see also de Mattos), xxiii. 138

Stevenson, Macgregor, xxv. [293]

Stevenson, Mrs. Alan, xxv. [110], [436]

Stevenson, Mrs. R. L., xxiv. 234, 247-8, 251, 256, 258-9, 275, 282, 291-2, 323, 330-1, 341-2, 390; xxv. [29], [30], [31], [38], [249]-50, [371], [377]; character, xxiii. 279-80; first meeting, xxiii. 183, 228; marriage, xxiii. 228 et seq., 260, 262, 268, 270, 272, 274; xxiv. 105; collaboration with R. L. S., xxiii. 282; letter to, on avoiding the infliction of pain in literary work, xxiii. intro. xxvi.; story by (see “Shadow on the Bed“); ill health and illness of, xxiii. 280, 283-4, 320-1,355; xxv. [146], [280], [297] et seq., [320]-1 et alibi; letter to, xxiv. 349; letters from, to S. Colvin, xxiv. 309, 347, to Mrs. Sitwell, xxiv. 331, to J. A. Symonds, xxiv. 11

Stevenson, Mrs. Thomas (née Balfour), xxiii. 4, 6, 148; xxiv. 39, 147, 199, 216, 220, 234, 248, 251, 258, 276, 280, 290, 291, 309, 310, 314, 323, 331, 336, 341, 343, 366, 375, 405; xxv. [3], [31], [50], [53], [193] et seq., [259], [282], [403], [406], [416]; letters to, xxiii. 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24, 36, 38, 39, 44, 56, 81, 94, 96, 97, 99, 107, 112, 116, 117, 118, 120, 187, 215, 216, 218, 298, 337, 354; xxiv. 9, 21, 66, 76, 202, 383; settled in Samoa, xxv. [76], [78]

Stevenson, Mrs. Thomas, and Thomas Stevenson, letters to (jointly), see Stevenson, Thomas, infra

Stevenson, name, query on to Sir H. Maxwell, xxv. [440]

Stevenson, Robert, xxiii. 4, 13, 160, 200; xxiv. 359; xxv. [87], [95], [98], [120], [310], [315], [401], and see “Family of Engineers”

Stevenson, Robert (the first), xxv. [335]

Stevenson, Robert Alan Mowbray (Bob), xxiii. 49, 57, 58, 83, 103, 105, 109, 110, 124, 133, 135, 137, 138, 140, 149, 174, 183, 187, 239, 308, 341; xxiv. 3, 69, 89, 124, 167, 196, 328 & n. 1; letters to, xxiii. 356; xxiv. 8, 59, 196, 198, 240, 323; xxv. [398], [401], [434]

Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour (“R. L. S.”), ancestry, xxiii. 4, 5; appearance, xxiii. intro. xxxviii.; appreciation of, by Lysaght, xxv. [415] n. 1; appreciation of his own literary skill, xxv. [443]; characteristics and habitudes, xxiii. intro. xxii., xxvi. et seq., 8-12, 186; xxiv. 296; xxv. [33], [415], n. 1; charm, xxiii. intro. xxiii., xxvi., xxvii.-ix., xxxi., 55; xxv. [415]; conversation, xxiii. intro. xxxi., 9. 123; help derived from writings of, xxii., intro. xxix., 253-4; interest in missionary work, xxv. [10] & n. 1, [33], [56], [57]; interest in music, xxiv. 188-9, 196 et seq., 285, 302; xxv. [85], [92], [125], [185]; literary style and methods, xxiii. intro. xix. et seq.; xxv. [173]; political views, xxiv. 107-8; portraits, busts, photographs of, xxiv. 117, 154, 170, 177, 199, 202, 238-9, 250, 255; xxv. [309], [310], [341], [353] & n. 1; relations with his father, xxiv. 5, 6 et alibi; religious views, xxiii. intro. xxxii., 11, 12, 53-4, 67

Life, 1850-57, Birth and Early delicacy, xxiii. 5

1858-67, Education and home life and early travels, xxiii. 6-8

1868-70, Engineering studies, xxiii. 10

1871-4, Law studies, religious differences with parents, xxiii. 10-12

1874-5 (May to June), Law studies, home life, experimental literature, travels, home and foreign, and friendships, xxiii. 123-4

1875-79 (July to July), Bar studies concluded, travels in France and Germany, life at the bar abandoned for literature; Fontainebleau again, xxiii. 182-3; early journalistic and other writing, xxiii. 184-5

1879-1880 (July to July), Californian visit, hardships, illness, marriage, xxiii. 228-30

1880, Aug.-1882, Oct., Home from California, xxiii. 279; summers in Scotland, xxiii. 279-80; winters at Davos, and literary work, xxiii. 280, 283

1882, Oct.-1884, Aug., The Riviera again, Montpellier and Marseilles, Nice, xxiv. 5; Hyères home life, happier relations with parents, illness and literary work, letters, xxiv. 3-5

1874, Sept.-1887, Aug., Bournemouth homes—“Skerryvore,” invalid life, friendships, and literary work, xxiv. 104-9; visit to Paris, schemes for life in Ireland, xxiv. 108; death of his father, and departure for Colorado, xxiv. 110

1887, Aug.-1888, June, Voyage to New York and reception there, friends new and old, stay in the Adirondacks, journey to San Francisco, xxiv. 233-4

1888, June-1890, Oct., Voyages in the Pacific, xxiv. 290-3; settlement at Vailima, xxiv. 291-2; controversy about Father Damien, xxiv. 292

1890, Nov.-1891, Dec., First year at Vailima, Samoan politics, letters on, to The Times—building of the first Vailima house, xxv. [3]-8

1892, Jan. to Dec., Life at Vailima, second year, visitors, enlargement of the house, Samoan politics, threatened deportation, xxv. [144]-6

1893, Jan. to Dec., Life at Vailima, third year, the addition to the house completed, Samoan politics, proclamation aimed at him, illness of Mrs. R. L. Stevenson, trips to Sydney, to Honolulu, to New Zealand, outbreak of war, financial anxieties, signs of life-weariness, xxv. [280]-2

1894, Jan. to Dec., fourth year at Vailima, illness and recovery, loss of literary facility, financial position, visitors, xxv. [373]-5; the making of the Road of Gratitude, xxv. [374], [432] et seq., [441], [446]; speech and feast to the chiefs, xxv. [441], [446], [462] et seq.; sudden death and burial, xxv. [8], [10] n. 1, [375]; account of, by Lloyd Osbourne, xxv. [457] et seq.; epitaph, xxiii. 268; xxv. [375]

Stevenson, Thomas, xxii. 4, 5, 11, 12, 20, 24, 146, 148, 180, 260, 261 & n. 1, 279, 285, 298, 328, 347, 353; xxiv. 5, 6, 39, 58, 105, 107, 108, 118, 119, 135, 138, 147, 161, 187, 188, 189, 196, 199, 210, 216, 220, 234, 276, 280, 365, 405; xxv. [335], [382], [401]; affection for Mrs. R. L. S., xxiii. 279; gift to her of a Bournemouth house, xxiv. 105; biographical essay on, xxiii. 21; letters to, xxiii. 13, 42, 111, 113, 213, 290, 330; xxiv. 9, 22, 62, 74, 90, 118, 119, 137, 159, 179, 190, 201; Memories of, xxv. [413]; misunderstandings with, xxiii. intro. xvii., 11, 12, 55, 67; religious views, xxiii. 11, 12, 52, 67; death, xxiii. 5; xxiv. 109, 227

and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson, joint letters to, xxiii. 215, 296, 305; xxiv. 27, 75, 76, 78, 100, 110, 130, 168, 199

“Stewart, Alan Breck,” xxv. [46]-8

Stewart, James (see Appin murder)

Stewart, Miss (Bathgate), xxiii. 227

Stewart, Sir Herbert, xxiv. 81

Stewart’s plantation, Tahiti, xxv. [153] & n. 1

“Stickit Minister” (Crockett), dedication of, xxv. [349] & n. 1

Stobo Manse, at, xxiii. 284, 357

Stockton, F. R., verse to, xxiv. 125

Stoddard, Charles Warren, xxv. [267]; letters to, xxiii. 275, 294; xxiv, 180

“Stories and Interludes” (Barry Pain), xxv. [215]

“Stories,” or “A Story Book,” projected, xxiii. 249

Storm, ideas on, xxiii. 150

“Story of a Lie,” xxiii. 12, 229, 230, 235, 237, 247, 249; xxiv. 90

“Strange Adventures of Mr. Nehemiah Solny,” projected, xxiii. 170

“Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” xxiii. intro. xxiii.; xxiv. 106, 169, 171, 182, 233, 253, 398; xxv. [289]; publication, xxiv. 166; dedication, xxiv. 167; criticisms, xxiv. 184

Strathpeffer, at, xxiii. 280, 284, 285

Streams, Samoan, peculiarities of, xxv. [36]

Strong, Austin, xxiv. 151, 341; xxv. [92], [117], [249] & n. 1, [269] & n. 1, [389], [403], [446]

Strong, Mrs., xxiv. 325 & n. 1, 341; xxv. passim; letter to, xxiii. 286

Stuebel, Dr., German Consul, xxv. [35], [41] & n. 1, [141]

Sturgis, Mrs., xxv. [391]

“Subpriorsford,” nickname for Vailima, xxv. [165], [170]

“Such is Life,” poem (Martin), xxiii. 209

Sudbury, Suffolk, at, xxiii. 56

Suffering, value of, xxiii. 251

Suffolk, peasantry, xxiii. 61

“Suicide Club,” xxiii. intro. xx., 356

Sullivan, Russell, xxv. [25]

Sunrise, tonic of, xxv. [401]

Sutherland, Mr., xxiii. 15

Sutherland, Mrs., xxiii. 22

Swan, Professor, xxiii. 193; xxiv. 143; xxv. [315]

Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, xxiii. 8, 123, 126 et seq., 312

“Sweet Girl Graduate, A,” and other poems (Martin), xxiii. 208-9

Swift, Dr. and Mrs., of Molokai, xxiv. 351-2

Swinburne, A. C., poems, xxv. [390]

Sydney, N.S.W., visits to, and illnesses at, xxiv. 292-3, 325, 375, 382 et seq., 394; xxv. [4], [38], n. 1, [53] et seq., [61], [77], [81], [208], [288]-9, [296]

Symonds, J. A., xxiii. 281, 304, 311, 317, 334, 341, 351, 361; xxiv. 142; dedication of book by, xxv. [454]; epithet of, for R. L. S., xxiii. intro. xxvi.; letter to, from Mrs. R. L. Stevenson, xxiv. 11; letters to, xxiv. 182, 254, 304; on Southey, xxiii. 302; death of, xxv. [317] & n. 1


“Table Talk” (Hazlitt), xxiv. 130

Tacitus, xxiv. 83

Tahiti, xxiv. 291, 371

Tahitian Islands, xxiv. 293; stay in, xxiv. 291, 296 et seq.

Tait, Professor, xxiv. 118

“Tales and Fantasies,” xxv. [397].

“Tales for Winter Nights,” projected title, xxiii. 316, 318

“Tales of a Grandfather” (Scott), xxv. [117]

“Tales of my Grandfather” (see also “Family of Engineers”), xxv. [110]

“Talk and Talkers” (Cornhill), xxiii. 283, 341, 349; xxiv. 138

Tamasese, xxiv. 371; xxv. [67], [351]

Tamate, see Chalmers

Tati, high chief of the Tevas, xxiv. 317

Tauchnitz, Baron, and “Footnote,” xxv. [346]

Tautira, at, xxiv. 291, 302 et seq., 317

Taylor, Ida and Una, xxiv. 105, 372, 374

Taylor, Lady, xxiv. 105, 180; xxv. [203]; death of, xxv. [254]; letters to, xxiv. 211, 212, 286, 357, 372

Taylor, Miss, xxv. [364]; letter to, xxv. [254]

Taylor, Sir Henry, xxiv. 145, 180

Tembinoka, King of Apemama, xxiv. 358-9, 368, 400; verses to, xxiv. 378, 380

Temple Bar, contributions to, xxiii. 184, 206, 207, 211

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (see also “Becket”), xxiv. 205

“Tentation de St. Antoine” (Flaubert), xxiii. 150

Teriitera, Samoan name of R. L. S., xxiv. 308, 310, 317, 321

“Tess of the D’Urbervilles” (Hardy), xxv. [266] n. 1, [296]

Thackeray, W. M., xxv. [154]

“Theatrical World” (Archer), xxv. [384]

“Thérèse Raquin” (Zola), xxiv. 57

“The Tempest” (Shakespeare), xxiv. 96

“Thomas Haggard” (Window in Thrums), xxv. [276]

Thomson, Maggie, xxiii. 25

Thomson, Mr., xxiii. 8

“Thomson,” pseudonym, letters in character of and as to, xxiv. 14, 121, 122

Thoreau, Henry David, essay on (Familiar Studies), xxiii. 226, 229, 252, 255, 262, 263, 265, 273; xxiv. 149, 158; criticisms on, xxiii. 322

“Thoughts on Literature as an Art,” xxiii. 266

“Thrawn Janet” (Cornhill), xxiii. 282, 308, 316, 321; xxiv. 90; xxv. [295]

“Tibby Birse” (Window in Thrums), xxv. [276], [362] n. 1

Time, Archer’s criticisms in, xxiv. 156, 159, 160, 161

“Time” (Milton), xxiii. 294

Times, The, letters to, on Samoan affairs, xxv. [7], [94], [98], [119], [137], [145], [212], [376], [386], [387]

Todd, John, xxiv. 221

Todd, Mrs., xxiv. 221

“Tod Lapraik” (Catriona), xxv. [294]-5

“Tommy Haddon” (Wrecker), xxv. [268] & n. 1

“Toothache, The” (Burns), xxiv. 256

“Torn Surplice, The,” suggested title, xxiii. 321

Torquay, at, xxiv. 109

Torrence, Rev. ——, xxiii. 181

“Touchstone, The,” xxiii. 141

Tourgenieff, ——, xxiii. 222

“Tourgue, la” (“Quatre-vingt Treize,” Hugo), xxiii. 130

Trades Unions, xxiii. 97

“Tragedies of the Wilderness” (Drake), xxiv. 270

“Tragic Comedians” (Meredith), xxiii. 224

“Tragic Muse, The” (H. James), xxiv. 397; xxv. [44], [130]-1

“Transformation of the Scottish Highlands,” projected, xxiii. 297

Traquair, Willie, xxiii. 20, xxiv. 70

“Travailleurs de la Mer” (Hugo), xxiii. 129 n. 1

Travel-books, cheap edition projected, xxiii. 294

“Travelling Companion, The,” projected, xxiii. 321; xxiv. 68, 149

“Travels and Excursions,” Vols. II. and III. discussed, xxv. [423]

“Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes,” xxiii. 183, 184, 185, 216, 217, 219, 225, 229, 248, 250, 257

“Treasure Island,” xxiii. intro. xxxv., 282, 283, 326, 334, 352, 355; xxiv. 31, 93, 101, 112, 179, 233; xxv. [76], [124], [289], [429]; publication as serial, xxiii. 328; in book form, xxiv. 6, 27, 35, 67; criticisms, xxiv. 66; genesis of, xxiv. 101; illustrated edition, xxiv. 159; paper on, xxv. [376]

“Treasure of Franchard,” xxiv. 4, 398; xxv. [153]

“Trial of Joan of Arc,” xxiii. 203

“Trials of the Sons of Rob Roy, with Anecdotes,” xxiii. 332

“Tricoche et Cacolet,” xxiii. 219

“Tristram Shandy” (Sterne), xxiii. 118

Trollope, Anthony, novels of, xxiii. 215

“Trophées, Les” (Hérédia), xxv. [331] & n. 1

Trudeau, Dr., xxiv. 234

Tulloch, Principal, xxiii. 280, 290, 297, 316; xxv. [97], [123]

Tupper, Martin, xxiii. 348

“Tushery,” xxiv. 6, 31, 32

Tusitala, xxv. [196] et aliter

Tutuila, visited, xxv. [4], [8], [58], [65]

“Twa Dogs” (Burns), xxiii. 225

Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), xxiii. 276

Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) at the Jenkins’, xxiii. 175, 176, 178

“Two Falconers, The, of Cairnstane,” xxiii. 170

“Two St. Michael’s Mounts,” essay, projected, xxiii. 207

“Two Years before the Mast” (Dana), xxiv. 297

“Typee” (Melville), xxiv. 348


Ulufanua, island, xxv. [97]

“Underwoods,” collected verses, xxiii. 222, 271, 281, 296, 300; xxiv. 36, 89, 107, 170, 173 n. 1, 189-90, 214, 215, 229-30, 231, 395; xxv. [376], [398]; dedication of, xxiv. 374; review by Gosse, xxiv. 244; success of, xxiv. 239, 255-6

United States, the, and Samoa, xxv. [6] et seq.

Upolu and Savaii, xxv. [8]


Vacquerie, ——, xxiii. 307

Vaea, Mount, xxv. [9], [135], [388]; burial-place, xxv. [10] n. 1, [460]

Vaea river, xxv. [132] et seq.

Vailima, home at, xxiv. 291; purchase of, xxiv. 292, 372-3, 374, 377, 390; life at, xxv. [3] et seq., [148]-51, [156] et seq., [280] et seq.; visitors to, xxv. [228]; expenses, xxv. [282]; household staff, xxv. [356]-7; joy of colour at, xxv. [378]; new house, xxv. [145]-6, [251], [269], [271], [278]-9, [284], [287]; decorations for, xxv. [308]-9; feeling about, xxv. [349]

“Vailima Letters,” xxiii. intro. xviii., xxix.; xxv. [5]

Vanity Fair, magazine, contributions to, xxiii. 184, 198, 199

“Vanity Fair” (Thackeray), xxv. [154]

Vedder, Elihu, illustrator of “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,” xxiv. 116

“Velasquez” (R. A. M. Stevenson), xxiii. 57

“Vendetta, in the West,” unfinished, xxiii. 229, 238-9, 241, 244, 255, 256, 259, 266

Verses, Miscellaneous and Impromptu—

“Adela, Adela, Adela Chart,” xxv. [109]

“Bells upon the City are ringing in the night,” xxiv. 167

“Blame me not that this Epistle,” letter in verse to Baxter, xxiii. 46

“Brave lads in olden musical centuries,” xxiii. 304

“Dear Henley, with a pig’s snout on,” xxiii. 330

“Do you remember—can we e’er forget?—,” xxiv. 376

“Far have you come, my lady, from the town,” rondel, xxiii. 188

“Feast of Famine” (Ballads, 1890), xxiv. 298-9, 321, 330, 395

“Figure me to yourself, I pray,” xxiii. 287

“He may have been this and that,” xxiv. 190

“Here’s breid an’ wine an’ kebbuck,” xxiii. 257

“Home no more home to me, where must I wander?” (Songs of Travel), xxiv. 303

“I heard the pulse of the besieging sea” (to Colvin), xxiv. 366; xxv. [23] & n. 1

“In the beloved hour that ushers day” (Songs of Travel), xxiv. 240

“I was a barren tree before,” xxv. [366]

“I would shoot you, but I have no bow,” xxiii. 360

“Let us who part like brothers part like bards” (Songs of Travel), xxiv. 378, 380

“My Stockton if I failed to like,” xxiv. 125

“Noo lyart leaves blaw ower the green,” xxiii. 193

“Nor you, O Penny Whistler, grudge,” xxiv. 20

“Not roses to the rose, I trow,” xxiv. 205

“Not yet, my soul, these friendly fields desert,” xxiii. 271

“Nous n’irons plus au bois,” rondel, xxiii. 188-9

“Of the many flowers you brought me” (to Miss Rawlinson), xxiv. 227

“Of where or how, I nothing know,” xxiii. 232

“O Henley, in my hours of ease,” xxiii. 222

“O, how my spirit languishes,” xxiv. 299

“O Sovereign of my Cedercrantz,” xxv. [278]

“Priests’ Drought, The,” ballad, xxiv. 321

“Song of Rahero,” ballad, xxiv. 317, 321, 330, 395; xxv. [58]

“Tandem Desino,” xxiv. 79 et seq.

“The pleasant river gushes,” xxiv. 32

“There was racing and chasing in Vailima plantation, xxv. [422]

“Though I’ve often been touched with the volatile dart,” xxv. [109]

“Ticonderoga,” ballad, xxiv. 321, 395

“To Felix,” xxiv. 189, 190

“We’re quarrelling, the villages,” xxv. [50]

“When from her land to mine she goes” (Songs of Travel), xxiv. 345

“Woodman, The” (New Review), xxv. [18] & n. 1, [20]

“Youth now flees on feathered foot,” xxiv. 172, 181

“Vicar of Wakefield,” xxv. [14] n. 1

“Vicomte de Bragelonne” (Dumas), xxiv. 398; xxv. [51]

Victor Hugo’s romances, essay on, xxiii. 56, 124-5, 126, 127, 135

Victoria, Queen, xxiii. 323

Villiers, Lady Margaret, xxv. [228], [236]

“Viol and Flute” (Gosse), xxiv. 98

“Virginibus Puerisque,” xxiii. 184, 185, 203, 204, 208, 212, 284, 294; xxv. [301] n. 1; publication, xxiii. 281; new edition, xxiv. 195, 216; reprint, xxiv. 230

Vitrolles, Baron de, xxv. [288] n. 1, [321]

Viviani, Emillia, xxiv. 212

Vogelweide, Walther von der (Studies in the Literature of Modern Europe), Gosse’s introduction to, xxiii. 221

“Volsungs” (Morris), xxiii. 334

Voltaire, xxiii. 297; on Œdipus, xxiv. 114

Vossische Zeitung, xxv. [263]


Wachtmeister, Count, xxv. [96]

“Waif Woman, The,” xxv. [272] & n. 1

Walker, Patrick, xxiv. 91

“Walking Tours,” xxiii. 202

Wallaroo, H.M.S., officers, xxv. [452]

Walter, the Skye terrier, and his sobriquets, xxiii. 280, 281, 318; xxv. [41] & n. 2, et alibi

“Wandering Willie,” air, xxiii. 113

“Wandering Willie’s Tale” (Redgauntlet), xxiii. 287

“Washington” (Irving), xxv. [30]

Watts-Dunton, T., letter to, xxiv. 203

Waverley Novels (Scott), xxiv. 75, 76, 84, 91; xxv. [228]

“Waverley” (Scott), xxiii. intro. xxiii.; xxiv. 91

“Way of the World” (Trollope), xxiii. 215

Weather and the old woman, xxiii. 175

Webster, essay on (Gosse), xxiv. 45

Week, The, xxiv. 45

“Wegg, Silas,” (Our Mutual Friend), xxiii. 226

“Weg,” nickname for Gosse, xxiii. 224, 226, 227

“Weir of Hermiston,” unfinished, xxiii. intro. xx., 12; xxv. [144], [170], [264]-5, [274], [281], [284], [287], [293], [306]-7, [338], [350], [375], [383], [392], [403], [453], [456]-7; scheme for, xxv. [258], [260]-1, [270]-1

Wellington, Duke of (see also “Life” of), xxiv. 34 n. 1; Tennyson’s “Ode” on, xxiii. 293

Went, George, xxv. [23] & n. 1, [100]

“Werther” (Goethe’s “Sorrows of Werther”), xxiii. 60

Western Islands, trip among, xxiii. 124

West Highlands, visit to, xxiii. 183

“What was on the Slate,” xxiii. 222, 267

“When the Devil was well,” xxiii. 167, 168, 186

“Where” and “Whereas,” use discussed, xxv. [163]

“White Company” (Doyle), xxv. [336]

Whitman, Walt, essays on, xxiii. 55, 70, 72, 86, 89, 103, 104, 139, 140; works of, xxiii. 70, 72, 357-8; xxiv. 183

Whitmee, Rev. S. J., missionary xxv. [174], [180], [202], [203]; letter to, xxv. [174]

Wick, at, xxiii. 12, 15

“Widdicombe Fair,” song, xxv. [391]

Wiesbaden, visit to, xxiii. 182

“Wild Man of the Woods,” xxiii. 249

“Will o’ the Mill,” xxiii. 184, 207, 248, 268

Williams, Dr., of Nice, xxiv. 59

Williams, Mr. and Mrs., xxiii. 353

“William Wilson” (Poe), xxiii. intro. xxiii.

“Wiltshire” (Beach of Falesá), xxv. [187]

“Window in Thrums” (Barrie), xxv. [276], [362] & n. 1

Winslow Reef, xxiv. 362

“Winter and New Year” (Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh), xxiii. 216

“Winter’s Walk, The,” unfinished, xxiii. 201, 202

Wise, ——, xxv. [55]

“Witch of Prague” (Crawford), xxv. [275]

“Wogg” (see Walter), other names for, xxiii. 280-1, 318

Wolseley, Viscount, xxiv. 81

“Woman killed with Kindness” (Heywood), xxiii. 354

Women characters, dissatisfaction with, xxiv. 398

Women, thoughts on (see also Elgin marbles), xxiii. 162-4, 358

Wood, Sir Evelyn, xxiv. 81

“Wrecker” (with Lloyd Osbourne), xxiii. 12, 275; xxiv. 362, 367-8, 379, 380, 389, 396, 399, 402; xxv. [5], [11], [24], [33], [84], [87], [108], [110], [115], [128], [138], [141], [152], [171], [210], [215], [221], [224], [274], [376], [378]; finished, xxv. [111]-2 & n. 1, [113], [115], [120], [122]; comments, xxv. [146]; discussed, xxv. [437] & n. 1; publication of, xxv. [87], [144]; success of, xxv. [238], [258], [357]

Wreck of the Susannah, xxiii. 308

“Wrong Box, The,” or “The Finsbury Tontine,” or “The Game of Bluff” (with Lloyd Osbourne), xxiv. 235, 249-50, 256, 258, 282, 291, 320, 322, 328, 360, 370

Wurmbrand, Captain Count, xxv. [354], [369], [370], [383], [415]

Wyatt, Mr., xxiii. 6


Yeats, W. B., letter to, xxv. [390]

“Yellow Paint,” xxiii. 141

Yelverton, ——, xxiii. 275

“Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum” (Treasure Island), xxiii. 326

Yoshida Torajiro, essay on (Familiar Studies), xxiii. 229, 262, 264, 265

“Young Chevalier,” unfinished, xxv. [144], [171] n. 1, [187]-8, [189], [192], [216]-7, [264], [281], [305]; characters in, xxv. [190]-1

Young Folks, contributions to, xxiii. 328, 329, 332, 339; xxiv. 31, 55, 148

Yule-Tide, contribution to, xxv. [57]


Zassetsky, Madame, xxiii. 97, 99, 102, 105, 108, 110, 113, 114, 115, 118, 122

Zassetsky, Nelitchka, xxiii. 98, 102, 104, 107, 108, 112, 114, 115, 116

Zola, Emile, xxiii. 346-7; xxiv. 396; xxv. [250] n. 1, [318], [319], [379]