Since this was written ‘The Cook’ is in his nineteenth chapter. Yo-heave ho!
R. L. S.
to Thomas Stevenson
[Chalet am Stein, Davos, Autumn 1881.]
MY DEAR FATHER,—It occurred to me last night in bed that I could write
The Murder of Red Colin,
A Story of the Forfeited Estates.
This I have all that is necessary for, with the following exceptions:—
Trials of the Sons of Roy Rob with Anecdotes: Edinburgh, 1818, and
The second volume of Blackwood’s Magazine.