[20] Portraits of myself for which he had asked.
[21] Miss Fanny Macpherson, now Lady Holroyd.
[22] In reply to a suggestion which ultimately took effect in the shape of the volume called Across the Plains (Chatto & Windus, 1892).
[23] The steam-yacht of the Commissioners of Northern Lights, on which he had been accustomed as a lad to accompany his father on the official trips of inspection round the coast.
[24] Mr. Rudyard Kipling was at this time planning a trip to Samoa, but the plan was unfortunately not carried out, and he and Stevenson never met.
[25] Readers of The Wrecker will not need to be reminded that this is the name of the personage on whom the mystery in that story hinges.
[26] See vol. xxiii. pp. 46, 48.
[27] Across the Plains. The papers specially referred to in the next lines are those written at Saranac Lake in the winter of 1887-88, including A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Pulvis et Umbra, A Christmas Sermon.
[28] For the volume Across the Plains.
[29] i.e. on the stage.