The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2

by Robert Louis Stevenson

[298a] Across the Plains.

[298b] Volume of Sonnets by José Maria de Hérédia.

[311] The Window in Thrums, with illustrations by W. Hole, R.S.A. Hodder and Stoughton. 1892.

[320] This question is with a view to the adventures of the hero in St. Ives, who, according to Stevenson’s original plan, was to have been picked up from his foundered balloon by an American privateer.

[323] As to admire The Black Arrow.

[332] In the book the genealogy is given as a diagram. It has been converted to text for this transcription so it’s available for everyone, with the original diagram below.—DP.

[337] Word omitted in MS.

[347] Sentimental Tommy: whose chief likeness to R. L. S. was meant to be in the literary temperament and passion for the mot propre.

[350] Sic: query ‘least’?