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