z Clorufll Winimmti Jib*»»g THE GIFT OF .^ HjdLajva.ffn. i^ju-«dLMrvi \!>. JAsq-^ja^ II '^/v]i. 7583 DATE vuL •% tf _aet«sasB9*i Cornell University Library Z8843 .A3 V.I Autograph letters. (From the library of olin 3 1924 029 650 854 imn fm^^ f -a rr ^ Al£MLB£EI£& .EDITED JBT ILU ■'^TKVfiW.SQTJ. ji.-n.jSi£. ERTEK KOESIEJJR. &RILUER. cl^ The Sunbeam Magazine. (See No. 298.) STEVENSON MANUSCEIPTe— CojvtinMed. 302. ORIGINAL MS. POEM, "The Light-Keeper," by R. L. Stevenson. 5 verses of ten lines each, the last verse crossed out and re-written. Dated May, 1869, with a few corrections in pencil. 2 pp. folio. *Published after his death in the Edinburgh Edition of the works; except the canceled verse. 303. ORIGINAL MS. POEM, "A Summer Night." En- tirely in Stevenson's autograph. 4 verses of four lines each. Dated Oct. 25, 1869. On the reverse is a draft of a "Prayer" of 4 verses, also dated Oct., 1869. 2 pp. folio. Unpublished. 304. EARLY POEMS, Sonnets and Essays. Manuscript Note-Book in pen and pencil, containing 120 pages in the autograph of R. L. Stevenson. Small 4to, half leather (broken). (Edin. 1871- ) * Most of the above poems were written during his early days at Swanston Cottage and while at the Academy in Edin- burgh. They include many of his earlier and unpublished poems and sonnets, ^ome of which have place and date attached in handwriting of a later date. Among some of the more important and lengthy ones are the following: Eecruiting Songs, The Vanquished Knight, Epistle to Charles Baxter, Schumann 's ' ' Erolicher Landmann, ' ' Epistle to Eobert Alan Stevenson, Consolation, Hopes, Death, Dawn and a poem to Youth. There are also numerous sonnets and original drafts of unpublished poems, as well as an Essay on Champney's work on Architecture. 305. SHORT MANUSCRIPT DIARY kept at the time of his entrance into a lawyer's office as clerk. "Written on 4 pages, folio. Thursday, May 9 to July 5, [1872]. Published. 306. AUTOGRAPH NOTES on the "Time of Louis XI," written on 6 pieces of paper of various sizes and enclosed in the original large envelope in which Stevenson had kept them, with his inscription on the outside. * These transcriptions are all from Philippe de Gommines' Memoirs, and probably were made while he was writing his essay on Charles of Orleans, in 1876. 307. BLANK BOOK containing a draft for a Life of his Father, headed "Thomas Stevenson." Also an early draft of "John Nicholson," 18 pages, 4to. Entirely in the hand- writing of R. L. Stevenson. * The sketch of Thomas Stevenson is entirely different from the little pamphlet published under that name, and of a much more intimate character. It begins : "I have nothing here that I wish to help me, no letters, hooks, papers, or friends to ash news of ; not even himself to set talking and fighting his battles over again; hnt yet I must try to put down something of what I Tcnmo about my father. My wife has just reminded me that I may very well die and leave my promised annals of my family not even begun," etc. The ' ' John Nicholson " is a fragment and does not resemble the printed story in any particular. 49 STEVENSON MANUSCBIPTS— CoiittJiMed. 308. MANUSCRIPT POE^M without title: Part of an Essay. Together 8 pages of writing in the hand of R. L. Stevenson, on 4 folio sheets. * Unpublished poem, in a rather unfinished state; and part of an essay on Love. Written at an early date. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT "ON THE ART OF LITERATURE." 309. FIFTEEN PAGES written in a quarto note book in pencil, by R. L. Stevenson, with the heading: "On the Art of Literature" and Part II, "Matter and Style." Boards (broken). Believed to be unpublished. * It is probable that the above chapters were intended to be published with "Essays in the Art of Writing"; in fact, they might be incorporated in the first essay ' ' On Some Tech- nical Elements of Style in Literature, ' ' much to its ad- vantage. Under the heading are written sub-titles: "Chapter I. Le- gitimate Forms: Narrative Literature. II. Dramatic Lit- erature. III. Philosophic literature. ' ' AJ fourth, on Lyrical Literature, was intended. UNPUBLISHED NOTES ON THE COVENANTERS. 310. NOTES on the Covenanters. Manuscript Note-Book, in the autograph of Stevenson, containing his Early Notes on the Covenanters, jotted down with the intention of pub- lishing a work on the History of Scotland. 14 pp. ; also un- published Manuscript Notes by Stevenson relating to the "Cavalier." 6 pp. one vol. 4to. (1873-81) * These notes on the Covenanters were, in all probability, made by Stevenson in 1873. They contain his memorandums, jotted down in the course of his early reading of Covenanting Books, giving passages and extracts from the same, with remarks of his own. Stevenson 's first novel on the above subject was attempted before he was fifteen years old, and in later life he devoted much time to the subject, all, however, without any material results. In his youth he speaks of it : "7 have great hope of my Covenanters," and in his later life refers to it as " returning to my ujaXlowing in the mire. ' ' Eegarding the above notes on "Cavalier," Stevenson, in a letter to Edmund Gosse in 1881, referring to his "Cavalier de Sonne," says: "I have splendid materials for Cavalier till he comes to my own country; and there though he con- tinues to advance in service, he becomes entirely invisible to- me. ' ' 311. MANUSCRIPT NOTE-BOOK by Stevenson, contain- ing Autobiographical Notes, Poems, Latin and Greek Exer- cises, List of Contents of a Novel, Draft of a Letter to his- Mother, etc.; also "The Last Days of a King," a novel by- Mority Hartman, the latter, apparently in the handwriting- 50 STEVENSON UANVSCmPTS— Continued. of his Uncle Robert. 115 pp. of manuscript in one vol. small Jrto, half roan. * An interesting literary item of Stevenson 's earlier days. The biographical Notes are in the form of a Diary, com- mencing Nov. 19, and ending Nov. 30, 1869; they include among others the following interesting remarks: "It is strange that though I do really make these notes for my own guidance and often use . . . yet I can never divest myself of the notion of a face at my elbow. . . . I find I cannot even read a hook without wondering how I shall easiest coin it out into some possibility of self-aggrfndisem,ent." In ,4-e- viewing these notes at a later date (1871), Stevenson added some characteristic notes regarding the same, one reading, ' ' These notes contaiii more damned idiocy and self-conceit than I ever saw compressed into the same space. ' ' The Poems cover nearly 75 pages of the above note-book, and include a set of verses headed ' ' Caulstone slap " ; a poem to "My dear Miss Deas," in which he says, "And now I'm studying law and you're a bride"; a poem on a "Portrait" ; set of verses headed "Middle Ages," in which he refers to Edinburgh and Walter Scott. The draft of his letter to his mother refers to his notes: "I, as I told you, treasured mine up in my heart for my sketch book at home," referring in all probability to some of the notes in the present volume. The fly-leaf contains the autograph signatures of his fattier ' ' Thomas Stevenson, 1843, ' ' and of his uncle "Hobert Stevenson, 1867." 312. ORIGINAL MS. of "Sketches," posthumously pub- lished with "Lay Morals and other Papers." The Sketches are composed of five subjects, "The Satyrist," "Nuits Blanches," "The Wreath of Immortelles," "Nurses," and "A Character." Entirely in Stevenson's autograph, written in 1870 or 71. 22 pp. folio. * There are no material differences between the published version and the MS. ; but in the ease of ' ' The Wreath of Im- mortelles, ' ' there are two drafts of the first three paragraphs, the first having been crossed out and rewritten. A very im- POETANT ITEM. 313. ORIGINAL MS. of "Reminiscences of Colinton Manse." Written about 1872. 26 pp. folio, including a re- vised version of several of the earlier paragraphs. * Portions of this are quoted in "The Life of Stevenson" by Graham Balfour; but it does not appear in the complete works, although it is undoubtedly, as Balfour says, "the quarry from which was drawn most of the material for 'The Manse' in 'Memories and Portraits.' " 314. ORIGINAL MS. "Notes on Childhood." Entirely in Stevenson's autograph. Written and dated at "Swanston, Sunday, 18th May, 1873." 11 pp. folio. * Unpublished, except for certain portions quoted in ' ' The Life" by Balfour. This and the MSS. of "Eosa Quo Locorum, " "Reminiscences of Colinton Manse," and "Early Memories" form an almost complete autobiographical ac- count of Stevenson's childhood from his birth- up to his school-days. 51 STEVENSON MAXUSCEIPTS— CorttnMed. MANUSCRIPT NOTE BOOK OP "AN INLAND VOYAGE." 315. NOTE BOOK containing 106 pages of descriptive writing which afterward developed into "The Inland Voy- age. " In a quarto blank book, limp cloth covers. * A delightful memorandum of the adventures of AretJmsa and Cigarette. This is the true account of their voyage, and differs entirely from the book. In places there are whole sentences which have not been changed, but these are few, and for the most part it reads like another work. Stevenson received 20 pounds for the book, and was happy to get it. On one page he has written three rhymes in celebration of the event, one of which reads: "I had the fun of the voyage I had the sport of the boats, Who could have hoped in addition The pleasure of fing'ring the notes?" In addition to the Inland Voyage notes are a tentative list of chapters for "Edinburgh Notes"; sketches of scenery; drafts of poems; a list of other writings, with the sum re- ceived for each; suggestions for "New Arabian Nights," with titles of the stories to be published in that work; and other interesting material. FIRST DRAFT OF "TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY." 316. NOTE BOOK containing 83 pages in the handwriting of Stevenson, being, for the most part, material for his book "Travels with a Donkey." Quarto, limp boards, leather back. * From this note book Stevenson elaborated his ' ' Travels with a Donkey. ' ' Small portions have been taken verbatim for the printed work, but the manuscript makes quite different reading as a whole. It is complete in so far as it is a record of the whole journey, but it is naturally much shorter than the book. At the back are three finished poems, one of which, ' ' The Ganger 's ITlute, ' ' is published in ' ' Underwoods. ' ' under the title of " A Song of the Eoad : The Ganger Walked. ' ' The other two appear to be unpublished. Their titles are: ' ' John Cavalier ' ' and ' ' Praise and Prayer. ' ' 317. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT with the title: "Pro- logue: At Monte Carlo." Written by Stevenson on 9 sheets of folio size, containing 10 pages in his handwriting. * This appears to be the prologue or introduction to a proposed long story. The principal character introduced is John Masters, and this part describes his doings at Monte Carlo. Probably written before 1880. 318. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSES. 73 lines, in pencil. 4 pp. folio. Unpublished. * Cancellations, corrections and additions by Stevenson. 319. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSES. 35 lines, in pencil. 3 pp. folio. Unpublished. 52 STEVENSON MANUSCRIPTS— ConiinMetJ. 320. MANUSCRIPT of part of a proposed story with the title: " Matthew Daventry." Written on 8 pages of folio size. Unpublished. * The above manuscript is part of Chapter I of a story of adventure, the scene of which is laid in London, Virginia, and the slave coast. The heading to Chapter I reads: "His Voyage veith Captain Scott." MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT OF "DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE." 331. PART of " Henry Jekyli's full statement of the Case," from Stevenson's tale "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." 1 p. 4to. Entirely in Stevenson's handwriting. * The page begins : "I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh." DifiEers from the printed text, and has two long passages which have not been printed. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF "THE YOUNG CHEVALIER." 323. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of "The Young Chevalier." Introductory Episode of the "Wine Seller's Wife, with two pages of proposed chapter headings and notes. Together 18 pages, folio. * Published in the posthumous collection " Lay Morals and Other Papers," with an Editorial Note by Sidney Colvin, in which he states that the above fragment was written at the suggestion of Andrew Lang, and that Alan Brack and the Master of Ballantrae were to appear on the scene again. Colvin tells at some length all that Lang and he knew of the author's plans for the story, There are some differences between the manuscript and the printed text. 323. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of "The Woodman," written on 3 sheets of folio size, containing about 100 lines of verse. * This is evidently an early draft of the poem ; the first part agrees with the published text, but further on it halts. There . are numerous corrections, rhymes on the margins, and other evidences of trouble; finally it breaks down altogether and is left unfinished. The complete poem appears in " Under- woods." 324. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of " Bright is the Ring of Words," a poem of 24 lines; also another poem on the reverse, " Over the Land is April." Together 42 lines, on both sides of a folio sheet. * One of the verses of the first-mentioned poem is crossed through, and this does not appear in " Underwoods," where the remainder of the poem is published. The whole of the other poem is probably unpublished. 53 STEVENSON MANUSCRIPTS— Conimue^. 325. NOTE BOOK containing 40 pages of jottings in pencil for "Beau Austin," "Admiral Guinea," and other works. 4to, limp wrappers. * Besides the notes and jottings for the two plays are numer- ous conversations, partly in Stevenson's handwriting. It is evident that these were written shortly after his very serious sickness in 1884, at which time he was forbidden to talk. 326. ORIGINAL PENCIL NOTE and note of a quota- tion. 2 sheets 4to. * Quotation from Hazlitt, which Stevenson addresses to " Idlers," reads: "Nobody knew better than Wilson that repose is necessary to great efforts, and that he who is never idle, labours in vain ! " 327. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS of four Poems which ap- pear in the collection called "Underwoods." 4 pages folio. * These poems appear in the book under their first lines: " The Infinite Shining Heavens," " We Uncommiserate Pass in the Night," " In Dreams, Unhappy, I behold you Stand," "I Know not how it is with You." There are a few small changes in text and some corrections. 328. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of two of his Verses appearing in "Underwoods ": " The Morning Drum-Call," 6 lines, and "I Have Trod," 4 lines. Also 2 cancelled verses of 6 lines each, unpublished. 1 p. 4to. 329. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of two of his Poems appearing in "Underwoods": "Let Beauty Awake," 2 verses of 6 lines each, and " Bright is the Ring of Words," 2 verses of 8 lines each. 1 p. small folio. 330. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEM, 4 verses of 6 lines each. Also 2 other verses containing 10 lines. 2 pp. folio. Unpublished. * One verse has been cancelled. There are also 7 lines addi- tional in pencil. 331. THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS. Original Manu- script Diary, May 22 to June 30, 1880, entirely in the hand- writing of R. L. Stevenson. 67 pp. of manuscript, in ink and pencil. Small 4to, sewed. [California, 1880] * Important manuscript record of Stevenson's honeymoon days. Immediately after marriage Stevenson, his wife and his stepson went to the country, fifty miles north of San Francisco, where they took possession of a deserted mining camp,and for two months lived an isolated and independent life. How the days were spent in exploring the abandoned mine, the petrified forest and other places of interest, as well as the humorous as- pect of his life, is recorded by Stevenson in the above Diary in a masterly manner, and forms the groundwork of his published book, " The Silverado Squatters. " 332. DRAFT of an answer to a criticism on " The Silver- ado Squatters," 1 p. 4to, La Solitude, Hy^res, Dec. 15th, 1883. Signed in full. * The above manuscript is in regard to a statement in Silver- ado Squatters about a dog sweating, which was questioned. There is another draft of a reply in this collection, of a very different character, 54 STEVENSON MANUSCEIPTS— CoJitiwwed. 333. MANUSCRIPT NOTES of Poems and Essays written in an octavo blank book prabably bought in California. 27 pages filled or partially filled with notes in the handwriting of Stevenson. * Poems, finished and unfinished, rough jottings on all sorts . of subjects, and a short sketch of the History of Scotland. 334. MANUSCRIPT NOTES of Monterey, its surround- ings and the people met there. 4 pp. folio, entirely in the handwriting of Stevenson. 335. MANUSCRIPT NOTE BOOK written by Stevenson during the winter of 1880-81, chiefly for his own amusement. 34 pp. with 5 pages laid in, 4to, boards. [Davos, 1880-1] *A11 the material included in this note-book is in verse and unpublished, illustrated by a few pencil drawings. In these stanzas he denounces certain dishonest tradesmen of Davos, and writes a sequence of sonnets about one Peter Barash, a publican of Edinburgh, who had been a subject of his early jokes. Of this winter at Davos he writes: ' ' My wife and I in our romantic cot, The world forgetting, by the world forgot. High as the Oods upon Olympus dwell. Pleased with what things we have; and pleased as well To wait in hope for those which ive have not." 336. FRAGMENT of an Autobiography. Portions of the last two pages of "Book II," and the whole of "Book III — From Jest to Earnest." Quoted largely in " The Life " by Balfour. Written in San Francisco early in 1880. 13 pp. 4to. In the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson. * Contains much important matter which does not appear in print. There is a description of the happy period of his life between the years 1867 to '73, and the companionship of his cousin Bob. A brief outline on the reverse of oue of the pages gives an idea in what direction the sketch might have been continued; mentions such themes as "Whitman: humanity: love of mankind: Decline of religion; I Take to the New Testa- ment; Spencer," etc. 337. MANUSCRIPT NOTES and Memoranda, by Steven- son, including the first scene in "A Lodging for the Night"; being an early draft, containing additional matter, and variations from the printed text. Together with Law Notes, Fragments on Fables, Accounts, and Notes on Style. 34 pp. of manuscript in one vol. small 4to, half roan. (Edin. 1870-76) UNPUBLISHED ESSAY: "THE ETHICS OF CRIME." 338. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT in the handwriting of Stevenson, entitled "The Ethics of Crime." 2 pp. folio. * Original draft, with cancelled lines. This essay is not com- plete, being apparently thoughts jotted down by Stevenson for future use. The last page contains the original draft of a three- verse poem, in the handwriting of Stevenson, addressed to Andrew Lang, the first stanza reading as follows: ' ' send the ode And let the world be bloivd My Lang. O send the ode. And let the world go hang." 55 STEVENSON MANUSGEIPTS— Conttmtteci. MORAL TALES. 339. ORIGINAL DRAFT of the Manuscript for " Moral Tales," containing " Robin and Ben, or The Pirate and the Apothecary," and "The Builder's Doom." 13 pp. small folio. Published. * Contains a marginal note referring to a line in one verse, in which he says: " / am informed that there is here some error; but I have a kivdness for the line, and I would rather do in- justice to Amphion than to my own poetical talents." Several verses appear in different form from the published version, one reading: ' ' Ben, meanwhile like a tin reflector, Attended on the worthy rector; And was at length by that good fairy. Apprenticed to the Apothecary. Now, fired with an esurient flame, A rising chemist Ben became; Watered his drugs and oiled his hair And donned the consultative air; And soon, succeeding to his master, Became the lord of pill and plaster." 340. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTE BOOK. Con- tains notes on Language, Faith, Science, Sociology, Law, Goethe, Milton, Whitman and many miscellaneous sub- jects, some in pencil, with index. 73 pp. small 4to, boards. * A very interesting collection of impressions and opinions- on all sorts of subjects, probably written before 1880. 341. MANUSCRIPT NOTES, several in French. 11 pieces of various sizes, enclosed in the large envelope in which he kept them ; and with his inscription on the out- side. * Evidently made by Stevenson with the intention of writing an essay on the ills of war. On the envelope is a note in his handwriting: "War for the people. See also: English in France; Paris." 342. MANUSCRIPT DRAFTS by Stevenson, in pen and pencil, comprising Original Drafts of Poems for " The Child's Garden of Verses " ; Religious Prose Fragment; A Dedication to his father, Thomas Stevenson; Prose Essay on Reflections on History; Original Draft of two Prayers; also a few pencil sketches. 68 pp. of manuscript, in one vol. small 4to. * Interesting literary item, containing the drafts of many of Stevenson's poems, some of which have not been published, 343. MANUSCRIPT DRAFTS of Poems and Prose by Stevenson, comprising First Draft of Poems intended for " The Child's Garden of Verses," with an Introductory Poem to the Reader; Unpublished Preface to " The Merry Men "; Early Draft of title-page for " Kidnapped," with an outline of the chapter relating to David Shaw and a few pencil sketches; Translation of Martial, and Drafts of some Unpublished Verses. 34 pp. of manuscript, in one vol., small 4to. In pencil. 56 STEVENSON MANUSCRIPTS— Con-imited. 344. UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT, written in tli& form of Letters, entitled " Edifj-ing Letters of the Ruther- ford Family." Three complete Letters and portion of one other. Letter I. " William Rutherford to Paul Somerset," 6 pp. Letter II. " James Rutherford to Prof. Darberey Fisher in the University of Aberdeen," 2 pp. Letter III. " William Rutherford to Charles Butler," 5 pp. Letter IV. (portion only) "Wm. Rutherford to Paul Somerset, " 1 page. In all 16 pp. of manuscript on 8 folio sheets. * These letters are obviously autobiographical, the name Rutherford being employed by Stevenson as a pseudonym for his own, the full text, as well as the fictitious signature to- eaoh letter, being in Stevenson's autograph. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF "LAY MORALS." 345. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of the posthumous work published under the title of " Lay Morals." Written by Stevenson on 37 sheets of foolscap size, and containing 42 pages in his handwriting. * The Complete Manuscript of Lay Morals, with a second draft of Chapter IV. The text agrees with the printed book in almost all cases, but there are a number of cancelled pas- sages which have not been printed, and the last chapter, which was not completed, has considerable unpublished material. Throughout the pages are interesting changes and corrections and an occasional note for his own use, such as: " Clear this — distinguish commandments," etc. 346. NOTE BOOK containing: "An Enquiry into the Causes and Effects of Emigration from the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland with observations on the means to be employed for preventing it, by Alexander Irvin, Edinburgh, 1802." This was probably copied by Stevenson's mother. It occupies 13 pp. , with many notes in the autograph of Stevenson. 347. MANUSCRIPT NOTES for his proposed Life of the Duke of Wellington. A total of 74 slips of paper of vari- ous sizes, containing material collected by him. With one exception they are in Stevenson's handwriting, and are still enclosed in the 9 large envelopes he had used to divide the periods of the " Life"; with his inscriptions on the outside. * In 1884 Stevenson was commissioned to write a Life of Wellington for the series of "English Worthies" edited by Andrew Lang. It was advertised for a time as in preparation, and, as we can judge from these notes and the copies of the Dispatches and General Orders from his library, he had given considerable time and pains to its planning. In 1885 he writes to Sidnev Oolvin: " I am on my feet again, and getting on my hoots to' do the Iron Duke. Conceive my glee. . . . Now. look here, could you get me a loan of the Despatches, or is that a dream," etc., etc. There is nothing in Stevenson's Life or in the Letters to show why he did not complete and publish this work. 57 THIRD SESSION. Tuesday Evening, November 24, IPU. at 8:15 o'clock. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS— Continued. 348. MANUSCRIPT of an incomplete Essay on History. 2 pages, folio. Entirely in the handwriting of Stevenson, and with corrections and changes. 349. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEM. 3 verses of 8 lines each. 1 p. 4to. Unpublished. * With changes, corrections, and additions in Stevenson 's handwriting. Beads in part: "I have teen young and am old Am hidden various ways Now I hehold from a window The wonder of iygone days." 350. TWO PAGES of Autograph Manuscript, one con- taining a portion of one of his Fables and the other a portion of a Scotch story. 2 pp. 4to, and folio. 351. AUTOGRAPH POEM, "Judge me not light, tho' light at times I seem," 1 page, signed with initials. On the next two pages is a reply in verse to Stevenson's poem, and on the last page are two notes signed by Stevenson with initials. 352. MANUSCRIPT of an unfinished novel, with the title : "Adventures of Henry Shovel." 37 pages, folio. Unpub- lished. * The first three chapters of the above romance, and prob- ably all that was written. Besides the narrative are a number of pages of notes and jottings which give an idea of the author's intentions. There is also a list of chapter headings, from 1 to 14, a genealogy of the Shovel family, another title: "The Shovels of Newton French: Memoirs of a Family," and other interesting memoranda. 353. "THE LAZARETTO." Original Manuscript Draft for a large work on the South Seas; also a portion of a later draft of the same. With an Original Pen-and-ink Sketch, showing a Plan of the Lazaretto. 7 pp. on 4 sheets, folio. * The above manuscripts are both headed Chapter XLV; they contain the first rough drafts of an Unpublished Manu- script, the material for which he derived from personal ob- servations at the Leper Colony in the Hawaiian Islands. 354. BLANK BOOK with autograph notes for "The Master of Ballantrae"; A List of Contents for "Ballads"; Lists of Books and Scotch Songs. Together about 18 full pages in the handwriting of Stevenson. 4to, paper covers. 58 STEVENSON MANUSCRIPTS— Co?iti«ijed. 355. MANUSCRIPT of an Unpublished Story with the- title "The Plantation" written on 15 sheets of foolscap size. The first 12 pages are in the handwriting of an amanuensis, and five pages have material in Stevenson's hand. * It is evident from this manuscript that Stevenson intended to write a long story with the above title. This seems to have been the first sketch of the plot, and consists of a summary of the aitferent chapters: "The Labour Ship, Ban Scarlett, The Three Miss Scarletts, The Labour Wench, An Adventure in the Bush, ' ' etc. It was to have been a tale of the South Seas — the scene being laid in the town of Palealii, and the principal characters were Dan Scarlett and his daughters, Walter Oates, Harry Eainsforth, etc. Some of the writing by Stevenson is on the back of the sheets and has no bearing on the story, being rhymes and jottings. In the preface to the Biographical Edition of St. Ives, Mrs. Stevenson writes that at times her husband would weary of ' ' St. Ives ' ' and ' ' Weir of HermiSton, ' ' and that he had in his mind another story: "The new boolc was to be called Sophia Scarlett, with all the principal characters women. The most important male character . . . would die in an early chapter. ' ' 356. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LYRIC, "Student Song." 4 verses of 8 lines each. 1 p. folio. Unpublished. * Changes, corrections and additions in Stevenson 's hand- writing. One verse reads: "They say that at the core of it This life is all regret. But We've scarce yet learned the love of it, We're yet but at the door of it. We're only youngsters yet. We only ask some more of it, some more of it, some more of it. We only ask some more of it The less we're like to get." 357. Another draft of the above, containing 26 lines,,. in pencil. 1 p. folio. 358. ORIGINAL ROUGH DRAFT of " Heathercat, " 24 pp. ; also 4 portions of other rough drafts, 43 pp. Together 67 pp., folio. * The above work was never completed by Stevenson. The present manuscript consists of chapters 1, 2, 3, and a portion of chapter 4, containing about 10 pp. of dialogue not in the published version, the latter having but 3 chapters, in con- densed form. Stevenson had "Heathercat" in view about the time S. R. Crockett was engaged on "The Men of the Moss-Hags," dealing with the same subject. He sent a humorous sketch to Crockett, of a trespassing board and gallows, with E. L. S. in the act of hanging S. R. C, and on the boards the words: "Notice — The Cameronians are the proppaty of me, B. L. S. — trespassers and Raiders will be hung." In a letter written at the same time: "7 have made many notes for Heather- cat, but do not get much forrader. For one thing, I am not inside these people yet. Wait three years and I'll race you." In another letter, shortly before his death, he mentions having- laid the story on the shelf. 59 STEVENSON MANUSCRIPTS— Cowtijiwed. 359. THREE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEMS, 3 pp. ; original drafts of list of contents of "The Black Arrow," 3 pp. scattered verses, pencil sketches, map, notes, etc., in pencil. Together 19 pp. in note book, small 4to (shaken). Unpublished. * One poem, on the Ten Commandments reads in part : "If I could arise and tramel away Over the plains of the night and the day, I should arrive at a land at last Where all of our sins and sorroios are past And were done with the ten commandments. ' ' Another in part: "Have I no castle then in Spain No Island of the mind? Where I can turn and go again When life shall prove unlcind." 360. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEM. 63 lines, 2 pp. ■small folio. Unpublished. * With changes, corrections and additions in Stevenson's handwriting. Eeaduig in part: "Attend God's answer; surely God is just, And unto man, If man to man he answerable, God Tenfold is hound, and ivill tenfold repay." 361. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEMS. 6 verses, con- taining 44 lines. 2 pp. small folio (4 lines cancelled). Un- published. * One stanza reads : ' ' The Angler rose, he tooJc his rod. He Tcneeled and made his prayers to God. The living God sat overhead: The angler tripped, the eels were fed." Another commences ; "Let now your soul in this substantial world Some anchor take. Be here the body moored." 362. PORTION of an original draft of one of the "Fables," containing the fable ' ' Faith, Half Faith, and no Faith at all. ' ' 1 p. small folio. Published. * Appears in a different form in the published version. 363. NOTE BOOK containing 34 pages of Memoranda on the Highlands and the History of Scotland, entirely in the handwriting of Stevenson. 4to, wrappers. * In a letter to his parents, written in 1,880, Stevenson writes: "It seems to me very much as if I were gingerly emiarl-ing on a 'History of Modern Scotland,' " and m other places he refers to the attractions this subject had for him. The notes in the above book were all made with that purpose in mind, and the numerous dooks on the same sub- ject in his library were collected during the last fifteen years of his life with that intention. 60 STEVENSON MANUSCEIPTS— Co)iti?iMe(2. ORIGINAL IMANUSCRIPT OP AN UNPUBLISHED FARCE. 364. AN APRIL DAY ; or, Autolycus in Service. A Farce in 3 acts. The Original Manuscript, written in ink on 32 pages, oblong 12mo. Unpublished. * The scene of the Play is in the mountains of Bohemia, according to the title-page, and there are eight principal char- acters, besides huntsmen, country neighbors, etc. There is a prologue spoken by Autolycus in which he says: "Some of you are perhaps acquainted with an oiscare piece written iy an old play actor, William Shalcespeare. If it te so, I OJ 00 O a ^ g H e; tn o PORTRAITS, PAINTINGS AND PRINTS— Co«tin«cd!. Saint-Gaudcns' Medallion Portrait of Stevenson. _ 431. PORTRAIT of Stevenson east in bronze from the de- sign made by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Circular plaque of bronze, 36 inches in diameter, mounted on an oak frame. * The design of the above portrait is well-known through many reproductions. It shows Stevenson's left profile as he reclines against the pillows which are piled behind him. In the right hand is held a cigarette and in the left a manuscript. In the blank spaces at the top is the inscription: "To Mohert Louis Stevenson: Augustus Saint Gaudens, 18S8" ; and the text of Stevenson 's poem to Will H. Low, beginning : ' ' Youtli now flies oil feathered foot. ' ' From Saranac Lake Stevenson writes in one of his letters to John Addington Symonds: "In New York and then in Neioport I was pretty ill; hut on my return to New Yorlc, lying in hed most of the time, with St. Gaudens the sculptor sculping me, and my old friend Low around, I began to pick up once more." This medallion hung over the fireplace at Vailima. In the ' ' Life ' ' by Balfour it is said to be " the most satisfactory of all the portraits of Stevenson. ' ' 432. PORTRAITS. Eight photogravure portraits of ladies and gentlemen, after Raeburn. In a long black frame of eight compartments. William Hogarth, English Painter, 1697-1764. 433. THE SOUTHWARK PAIR. Painting in oil. Canvas relined. * Hogarth began his career as an engraver ; then studied painting under Sir James Thornhill. He produced a number of prints from his own paintings, chiefly of a satirical nature, his satire being intended to preach morality. Southwark Fair is one of his important pictures and shows the liveliness of his work and his fidelity to the actual. The original is a large work, measuring 48 by 56 inches, and is the property of the Duke of Newcastle. It hangs in the London Museum, now installed in Lancaster House. The present work shows a few minor variations and is probably a reduced copy made for use' of the engraver. Height, 26 inches; width, 36 inches. William Hogarth, 434. A MIDNIGHT MODERN CONVERSATION. Painting in Oil. Canvas, relined. Height 26 inches; width 32 inches. Engraved by the artist in 1734. * Thomas Stevenson, father of R. L. Stevenson, bought this painting in 1866 from J. M. Calverly of Dalton Hall, Leeds, who had owned it from the beginning of the century; at an earlier date it had been in the Dunscomb Park Collection of paintings. 435. PORTRAIT of Thomas Chatterton in oil. Bust to- right, in a red coat. Artist unknown. Size of canvas 12 by 14 inches; in a gilt frame. 73 PORTRAITS, PAINTINGS AND FUINTS— Continued. 436. ENGRAVING. A Winter Scene in Holland. A fine old Dutch print by Hiond, dated 1600. Oblong folio, in a gilt frame. * An interesting MS. record by Mrs. Stevenson is pasted on the back, headed; "To be Exhibited on 1st day that the ground was covered with snow. ' ' It gives the date upon whieh the first snow fell in Edinburgh from 1848 to 1889, and in- cludes some interesting entries concerning Stevenson's move- ments from time to time. 437. WATER-COLOR. A Scene on the Stevenson Estate at Vailima. By J. D. Strong. Folio, in gilt frame. 438. WATER-COLOR. Native House at Apamama. Show- ing peculiar tropical foliage. Drawn by J. D. Strong on the. "Equator." Oblong folio, in a gilt frame. 439. PORTRAIT of Mary WoUstonecraft. Etched by A. L. Merritt. 8vo, framed and glazed. * Inscription on the back : " To J^. L. Stevenson from his affect, mother. Picture of his Great Grandmother." Below that is a note by Stevenson's wife explaining the situation. In fun Lady Shelley had claimed R. L. Stevenson as her son on account of his close likeness to her renowned father-in-law. 440. ENGRAVING. Bell Rock Light-House. Engraved by J. Horsburgh after the drawing by Miss Stevenson. 4to, in a gilt frame. 441. PEDIGREE OF THE FAMILY OP APPINE. A manuscript genealogy of the family of Alan Breck, the charac- ter of that name in Stevenson's "Kidnapped." Framed and glazed on both sides. * Sent to Stevenson soon after the publication of the novel, by an enthusiast on the subject of the Stewart murder and the clan feuds. See the Preface to "Kidnapped," by Mrs. R. L. Stevenson, in the Biographical Edition. 442. PORTRAIT of Robert Stevenson. Engraved by Thomas Dick, after the painting by John Syme. Three- quarter length, seated by a window with a light-house in the background. Folio, in a wooden and gilt frame. 443. ETCHING. Great Yarmouth. By I. P. Heseltine, 1876. Oblong 4to, in a narrow black frame. (Spotted.) * Presented to R. L. S. by the artist. 444. PORTRAITS. A smiling gentleman (unknown), in a. round cap and open coat. Engraved by G. F. Schmidt. Another of an unknown gentleman in a powdered whig. Cut down and mounted. Both framed and glazed, 4to and large 4to. 2 pieces. * The first has an inscription on the back: " B. S. to Dr. Stevenson, Edin. 17 Mar. 1846." 445. WOODCARVING: Old Flemish woodcarving. A Biblical subject, representing an old man in bed blessing his children. Size 32 x 35 inches. * Bought in Holland by Thomas Stevenson. 74 PORTRAITS, PAINTINGS AND FmNTS— Continued. 446. WOODCARVING. Old Flemish woodcarving: "The Sacrifice of Isaac." Size 32 x 35 inches. * Bought in Holland by Thomas Stevenson. This and the one a.bove were in the library at Vailima; one of them concealed a, secret compartment where valuables were kept. 447. PORTEAIT of John Bunyan. Painted in oil by an unknown artist. On board, size I91/2 by 231/2 inches. In gilt frames. 448. PORTRAIT of a gentleman. Painted in oil by an unknown artist. Remounted on a new canvas. Size 12 x 17 inches. In gilt frame. 449. COLORED COACHING PRINT. "The Glasgow and London Royal Mail" speeding along a smooth highway, with beautiful rolling country as background. Charmingly colored by hand. Unsigned and undated. Size 21% x 29i^ inches, itt a gilt frame. 450. PORTRAIT of Mr. James Brinley, Engineer to his Grace the Duke of Bridgewater. Mezzotint engraving by R. Dunkarton after the painting by F. Parsons. (Slightly damaged.) Folio, in a wooden frame. 451. ENGRAVING. South Elevation of the Winstanle's Lighthouse, upon the Edystone Rock, as it was finished in the Year 1690. Engraved by Hen. Roberts, 1762. Folio, in a wooden and gilt frame. 452.. ENGRAVING. A Prospect and Section of the Light House on the Edystone Rock. Engraved by T. Sturt after the design by B. Lens. Folio (slightly foxed), in a wooden and gilt frame. 453. PETITION of Robert Louis Stevenson for admission as an Advocate. Dated Edinburgh, October 31, 1872; signed by Stevenson and the proper officials; Act of Admission of Stevenson as an Advocate; official copy made by the Clerk, Arch Brown; A copy of the foregoing document, with in- scription stating that the original was sent to Stevenson at reciuest of Graham Balfour; Certificate that Stevenson had appeared to take the oath, July 18, 1875. Together 4 pieces. 454. WOOD ENGRAVING TOOLS AND BLOCKS. Set of five wood engraving tools used by Stevenson at Davos Platz with two unfinished blocks. * In her preface to "Treasure Island" Mrs. Stevenson writes of their work and amusements at Davos: "... When this was denied him J>y his doctors my husTjand found another form of entertainment. With some blooJcs of -wood and a small chisel obtained from the local carpenter he made rude wood-engrav- ings, wrote verses under them, and called them 'moral emblems.'' I afterwards got him some pear-wood blocTcs and proper en- graving tools," etc. 75 455. WOODBLOCKS engraved liy Stevenson, unfinished. Man running toward a gallows, mountain scene, and what is possibly a portrait of Plenry James. 3 pieces, made during the winter Stevenson was at Davos Platz. 456. ORIGINAL WOODCUT for the "Pirate and the Apothecary," — one of the "Moral Tales" printed at Davos- Platz. This woodcut shows the meeting of Robin and Ben, and has an inscription by Stevenson at the bottom: "The Pirate and the Apothecary. 5th Proof." 18mo, printed in blue. 457. STEVENSON (R. L.). "The Graver and the Pen." Leaflet announcing the publication of the above (3 copies) ; also proofs of 2 pages containing the Poem, "The Tramps," with woodcut. (2 copies.) 6 pieces, 16mo, sheets. 458. OLD COINS. Collection of old and curious coins made by R. L. Stevenson when a boy at school. There are 124 specimens from various countries, copper, brass, lead, and silver, contained in the original canvas bag with the initial "S" on each side. * In a letter in January, 1883, Stevenson writes of the above : ' ' Many fhanks for the coins which came to hand duly. ' ' In an early letter to his father, dated Oct. 15, 1863, he asks to have his coins brought to him at his school. (See No. 20.) 459. UNIVERSITY CARD for November, 1870. Steven- son has filled the back with notes in pencil, probably made during lectures. The first one reads: "Was Butler right? Was he really doing good?" etc. 460. UNIVERSITY CARD. Engineering Class. May and Nov. 1870. 2 cards, signed by Professor Fleeming Jenkin; 2 others for class in Mathematics, signed by Philip Welland. 4 pieces. * Stevenson afterwards collected the Papers of Dr. Jenkin and published them, with an original Memoir. 461. AGREEMENT between R. L. Stevenson and Samuel Merritt for chartering the yacht ' ' Casco, ' ' in which he made his first voyage in the South Seas. 2 pages, folio, signed by both parties to the transaction. Dated June 21, 1888. * In his book ' ' In the South Seas ' ' Stevenson has much to say about the "Gaseo" and her captain, A. H. Otis. The above agreement tells how much he paid for the use of the yacht and under what terms he took her. 462. BREAKFAST INVITATION from King Kalakaua of the Hawaiian Islands. Large card with crown aud other decorations in gold, silver and red, inviting Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Stevenson to breakfast on April 8 [1889], at 8.30 o'clock. A smaller card of similar character has written on it "Her Majesty" ; both are enclosed in one envelope, decorated with a crown. 3 pieces. 463. PER:\IIT issued by the Board of Health, Honolulu, permitting E. L. Stevenson to visit the Leper Settlement at Molokai for the purpose of studying conditions. Signed by N. B. Emerson, President of Board of Health and dated May 20, 1889. ^ An interesting item to go with "Father Damien. " 464. PHOTOGRAPHS. 56 photograph negative plates of views taken by Stevenson or some one of his party on his South Sea voyages, mainly on the cruise of the "Janet Nichol. ' ' Size of each plate 4x5 inches. 11 broken. * A large number of photographs were destroyed in the lire on board the ' ' Janet Niohol. 465. PHOTOGRAPHS. 24 photograph negative plates of views taken on Stevenson's South Sea voyages. Size of plates 8 X 10 inches, and one 6V2 x 5%. 466. PHOTOGRAPHS. Four large photo negative plates, showing Stevenson's house in Samoa, with members of the family seated or standing about, another showing a corner of his study, a third is a view of another room, and the last is of a group of native nobility with Stevenson in their midst. Last two broken. Size of plates 12 x 15 inches. 467. PAPERS relating to the South Sea Islands, their Natural Products, Trade Resources, &c., &c. Folding map. Folio, stitched (creased, last leaf slightly torn). Wellington [N. Z.], 1874 468. PAYN (JAMES). Gleams of Memory, with some Reflections. First Edition. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1894 * Presentation copy, with inscription : ' ' With James Payn 's kindest regards. ' ' 469. PENITENT PARDON 'D (Goodman). Lond. 1724; Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan), (Imprint torn off) ; Napthali, or the Wrestlings of Church of Scotland. Glasgow, 1721 ; and others. Together 5 vols., various sizes and bindings. * Signature of Thomas Stevenson in one yol. 470. PEPYS (SAMUEL). Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., from his MS. cypher in the Pepysian Library; \\ith a Life by Lord Braybrooke, etc. Illustrated tvith woodburytype portraits. 6 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut (bind- ings cracked, one back missing). Lond.: Bickers, 1875-79 * Stevenson 's copy, used by him in writing his essay on Samuel Pepys, which appears in "Familiar Studies of Men and Books. ' ' In the first three volumes are many marked passages and marginal notes in the handwriting of Stevenson, some of them being of great interest. In the other volumes there are not so many, but altogether they amount to more than 100. An unusually fine association item. 471. PETRONIUS ARBITER. Satyricon, cum uberioribus, commentarii instar, notis. 12mo, old vellum (a few leaves somewhat discolored). Lugd. Batav. 1623 * Some marginal notes in ink. 77 472. PITCAIRN (ROBERT). Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland; compiled from Original Records and MSS., with Historical Illustrations, 1488 to 1624, &c. Frontispiece. 3 vols, in 7, 4to, half morocco (rubbed, small portion of one back missing). Bdin. 1833 * With contemporary markings and underseorings through- out, and the name Stevenson underlined in the several places where it appears. 473. POE (EDGAR ALLAN). The Works of Poe. Edited by John H. Ingram. Illustrated. 4 vols. 12mo, cloth (some- what broken). Edin. 1874-75 * Stevenson's reading copy, with many notes and scored passages. Some of the notes are extremely caustic, such as: "Just the most simple unadorned nonsense!" "Is this not the old trick?" and "quite a- d — d idiot, then." Each volume bears the book-label, and the notes are in Stevenson's hand- writing. It was used in preparing his review "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe," published in "The Academy," Jan. 2, 1875. A fine association item. 474. POLLOCK (WALTER HERBERT). Songs and Rhymes: English and French. 12mo, wrappers (covers broken). Lond. 1882 *With inscription: "B. L. S. from TV. B. P. May 188S." 475. POLLOK (ROBERT). Ralph Gemmell; A Tale for Youth. Frontispiece. 16mo, boards (loose in binding). Edin. 1829 * With signature of Jane Whyte Balfour, Stevenson 's "Auntie"; in his letters. 476. PRAYERS for Social and Family Worship. Pre- pared by a Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. 12.mo, cloth. Edin. 1859 * Presented to Thomas Stevenson, with inscription "From the Committee." 477. PRESS NOTICES of Stevenson's Novel "The Wrecker." About 150 pages of clippings from the English papers published during 1892. Bound in a 12mo, cloth cover with the title on the back. 478. PRINTS : A Portfolio of engravings, photographs and miscellaneous prints. Including a series of 13 plates by Wm. Hogarth. Folio, half leather (broken). 479. RAIKES (THOMAS). Private Correspondence of Thomas Raikes with The Duke of Wellington and other Dis- tinguished Contemporaries. Edited by his daughter, Harriet Raikes. 8vo, cloth (worn). Lond. 1861 * With Stevenson's Book-plate and a few passages marked in pencil. 480. RICH (ELIHU). Cyclopaedia of Biography. Small 8vo, cloth, uncut (binding torn). Lond. 1854 *With the "Skerryvore" Book-Plate of E. L. Stevenson. 481. RICHARDSON (ROBERT). Willow and Wattle. Poems. 12mo, limp parchment, uncut. Edin. 1893 * Presentation copy, with inscription : ' ' With the Author 's Compliments. . . . Edinburgh, November, 189S." 78 iS2. [RIDPATH (GEORGE).] The Reducing of Scotland by Arms, and Annexing- it to England, as a Province, Con- sidered. ^Yitll an Historical Account of the (xrievances the Scots complain they have suffer 'd in their Religion, Liberty, and Trade, since the Union of the Crowns. First Edition. Small ito, sewn, uncut. Lond. : Benj. Bragg, n. d. 483. ROBERTS (MORLEY). Red Earth. First Edition. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1894 * Presentation copy, with inscription: "To Bohert Louis Stevenson, in memory of some hours spent at Apia in May 1894, from Morley Soherts, Genoa 24. II. 94." Original Plaster Group of Augustc Rodin, French Sculptor, 184(1- 484. "LB PRIXTEMPS." Plaster Group. Height 25 inches. * This original model which is believed to be exhibited now for the first time was presented by Rodin to Robert Louis Stevenson in 1885. On the base is the inscription: "a S. L. Stevenson, au sympatJiique artiste, fidele ami, et cher poete, Sodin." With the group will be sold an autograph letter from Rodin to Stevenson regarding the inscription. 2 pages, 12mo. The inscription was not on the statuette when Stevenson re- ceived it, but was added later, as described in the Rodin letter. Stevenson wrote concerning the model and the inscription in an undated letter: "The 'Springtime' has arrived. . . . I regret not having the inscription. . . . The worJc is for the world, the inscription far me. It is a gift far too 'beautiful; tut the words of friendship malce it truly mine." [Transla- tion.] From the artist's Paris studio the statuette was sent to Bournemouth, where the Stevensons were living; later it was taken to Scotland, then around Cape Horn to Samoa, where it was carried in an ox-cart three miles up the mountain to Yailima. After Stevenson s death it was placed in the San Francisco home of Mrs. Stevenson, and passed safely through the earthquake and the fire — her house being the only one left standing in the vicinity. It was removed to Santa Barbara shortly after and remained there until sent to New York for sale. Ax ITEM OF THE HIGHEST AUTISTIC IMPORTANCE. (See Frontispiece.) 485. ROGERS (CAPTAIN WOODES). The Voyage of Captain Woodes Rogers to the South Seas and Round the AVorld. 12mo, half old calf. Lond. 1790 ^ With the autograph of Thomas Stevenson, dated Bdin., 1833, on the fly-leaf. 79 486. SACROBUSTO (JOHANNES DE). Liber de Sphaera, cum prisfatione Philippi llelanehthonis ad Simonem 61*711611111. 8vo, half calf. Numerous notes by a contem- porary hand. Vitebergae: Joseph Clug, 1531 * With signature of Thomas Stevenson and the following . interesting note in his autograph : ' ' This is the iooTc which first aivalened a taste for astronomical inquiry in the mind of the celebrated Flamsteed." Bought by Stevenson at the sale of Dr. John Jameson's books. 487. SAINTSBURY (GEORGE). Essays in English Literature. 1780-1860. First Edition. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1890 * Presentation copy, veith inscription: " E. L. S. from G. S. •Tu I'as voulu!' 6.1S.90." 488. SAINTSBURY (GEORGE). Miscellaneous Essays. First Edition. Small 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1892 * With Autograph Inscription by the Author — ' ' B. L. S., from G. S. B.7.9S." 489. SALVINI (TOMMASO). A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo. Firenze, May 5, 1888 ; A. L. S. by T. R. Sullivan, 1 p. 12mo. May 20, 1888, forwarding Salvini's letter to Stevenson. 2 pieces. * The letter is one of thanks for a copy of Stevenson's ' ' Fleeming Jenkins Papers, ' ' probably sent through Mr. Russell. He tells of his family life and mentions his son Alexandre, who is in New York. 490. SAMOAN NEWSPAPER. The Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, April 9, 1892. Folio, sheets (front leaf torn into). Aipa, Samoa, 1892 * With pencilings in ink. Contains an Account by Stevenson of the Native Meeting at Mailie, March 29, calling for a native king, and "Samoa for the Samoans." To this report the Editor has added a foot-note: "The above report has been ! sent to us by an old English resident, who has very large ex- perience in Samoa. ' ' 491. SAMOAN PRAYER BOOK. E. Hamani. Pure me te ui i una He Tekao Kiritiano. V. G. I. S. 16mo, boards (lacks back, covers loose). Paris, 1868 * Prayer and Hymn Book in the Samoan language. 492. SCHEME of Union Between England and Scotland (A), with advantages to both Kingdoms. 24 pp. 16mo, sewed (small hole in 1 p.). Lond. 1705 ' 493. SCHWEGLER (DR. ALBERT). Handbook of the History of Philosophy. Translated by James H. Stirling. 12mo, cloth, uncut (nail-hole through a number of pages). Edin. 1868 * Evidently used by Stevenson while in college. On the half- title is a signature without middle initial, and on the fly-leaf his last name only, with the date. May 4th, 1868. On the inside of the front and back covers are pencil notes on Spinoza, Descartes, Locke, and other philosophers, and there are several marginal notes through the book. One of these notes is in his later style of writing, showing that he had gone over the book again. 80 494 SCHWOB (iFARCEL). Mimes avec un Prologue et nu Epilogue. First Edition. 16mo, original pictorial wrap- pers, uncut. Paris, 1894 * One of 250 copies. With Author 's Autograph Inscription— "To Bobert Louis Stevenson, ivith my deep admiration, loving him dearly — Marcel Schivoi." 495. SCOTLAND. A Pull and Authentic History of the Rebellion, 1745 and 1746. By an Impartial hand. 16mo, old calf (rubbed). Lond., n. d. * Autograph of John Walker in three places. On the fly- leaf is a note in Andrew Lang's handwriting: "Not a hook to trust to. A. L." Many of the books on Scotch history were sent to Stevenson at his request, probably to help him in writing "The Weir of Hermiston." 496. SCOTLAND. A Letter [regarding the union of Scot- land and England], from a Scots Gentleman, Residing in London, to his Friend in Edinburgh. 8vo, sewn (small pieces torn from corners of lower margins). Printed in the Year 1713 497. SCOTLAND. An Account of the Scotch Plot [Re- garding the Invasion of Scotland by France]. In a Letter, from a Gentleman in the City, to his Friend in the Country. 4 pp. small 4to. Lond. 1704 498. SCOTT (REV. W. A.). The Christ of the Apostles' Creed, etc. 8vo, cloth (back torn). N. Y. 1867 * With inscription: "To Mr. Boiert Stevenson, luith author's Mndest regards, W. A. Scott. San Francisco, Cal. S8 July 1880." 499. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). The Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Walter Scott. With an Intro- ductory Memoirs by W. B. Scott. Portrait and illustrations. 8vo, cloth, gilt edges (3 leaves loose). Lond., n. d. * With Stevenson 's Book-plate and marginal pencilings. 500. SEASONABLE WARNING (A) ; or. The Pope and King of France un-Masked. 16 pp. small 4to, wrappers (stained, and title-page imperfect). * Eegarding the union of Scotland and England. 501. SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). The Plays of William Shakespeare, Prom the Correct Edition of Isaac Reed. Portrait and illustrations. 12 vols. 16mo, half calf (backs broken, 1 cover missing, 3 leaves loose). Lond. 1809 * Autograph signature of Robert Stevenson on title-page of one volume. 502. SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). The Globe Edition of the Works of Shakespeare. Edited by William G. Clark and William Aldis Wright. 12mo, cloth loose and worn). Lond. 1873 * Stevenson 's, copy, with numerous underscorings and margi- nal markings throughout, and his visiting card pasted in. 81 503. SHARP (WILLIAM). Sonnets of this Century. First Edition. Small 4to, cloth, uncut (binding varnished, few pp. foxed). Lend. 1886 * Laege papek copy. With Author 's Autograph Inscription : "To Sobert Louis Stevenson, with high regard — William Sharp." There is one correction by E. L. S. 604. SHIELDS (MICHAEL). Faithful Contendings dis- played : being An historical relation of the State and Actings of the suffering Remnant in the Church of Scotland, who sub- sisted in Select Societies, and were united in general corre- spondence during the hottest time of the late Persecution, 1681 to 1691 ; also A Collection of very valuable Sermons, Collected and transcribed by John Howie. 8vo, tree calf. Glasgow, 1780 * With note, in which he refers to the Work as being the only Edition, in the handwriting of Thomas Stevenson. 505. SHORT LETTER to the Glasgow-Men (A). 8 pp. small 4to. n. p., n. d. * Eegarding the union of Scotland and England. 606. SHORTER CATECHISM, Presented by the Assem- bly of Divines at Westminster. 24mo, sheep (back cracked). Lond. 1828 * With Autograph Signature of Thomas Stevenson, and Presentation Inscription to Thomas Stevenson, by his mother, 1837. 507. SIMELB (HENRY, Native servant in the Stevenson household). A. L. S. in English, 1 p. folio. Apia, Jan. 1, 1893. To R. L. Stevenson, telling of Talolo's [Stevenson's chief cook] arrest for fighting on the road, and asking to be notified if anything was to be done. * Curious specimen of English. 608. SIMONEAU (JULES). A. L. S., 3pp. 8vo. Monterey, Cal., March 3, 1886. To R. L. Stevenson. * This friend was an old Frenchman, keeper of the inn and restaurant where Stevenson boarded while at Monterey in the autumn of 1879. 509. SINCLAIR (GEORGE). Satan's Invisible World Discovered; or, a Choice Collection of Modern Relations. Frontispiece. 12mo, boards, leather back. Lond. 1814 * Stevenson's copy, with his signature on the fly-leaf dated, " KirlccuCCbright, 1871." 610. SINCLAIR (SIR JOHN). An Account of the Sys- tems of Husbandry adopted in the more Improved Districts of Scotland. Plates. 8vo, half calf (broken). Edin. 1812 611. SINGER (DR.). General View of the Agriculture, State of Property, and Improvements in the County of Dumfries (Scotland). Maps and plates. 8vo, half calf (broken). . Edin. 1812 * Notes in the back, probably by Thomas Stevenson. 82 512. SiMITH (E.). The Compleat Housewife; or, Accom- plish 'd Gentlewoman's Companion. Copperplates. 8vo, old calf (cracked, small tear in 1 margin) . Lond. 1737 * In the preface of the Biographical edition of ' ' Kidnapped ' ' Mrs. Stevenson writes : ' ' One day, while my husband was husily at loorl; I sat beside him reading an old coalcery booh called 'The Compleat Housewife: or Accomplish'd Gentle- tvoman's Companion.' In the midst of receipts . . . there were directions for the preparation of several lotions for the preser- vation of beauty. One of these was so charming that I inter- rupted my husband to read it aloud. 'Just what I loanted.' he exclaimed; and the receipt for the 'Lily of the Valley Water' was instantly incorporated into 'Kidnapped.' " A number of manuscript and other receipts are added at the front and back. 513. SMITH (WILLIAM). Morley: Ancient and Modern. '130 illustrations. 8vo, cloth, gilt top. Lond. 1886 * Presentation copy, with inscription: "To S. L. Stevenson, Esq., toith the Author's Tcind regards, Morley, Aug. 17, 1886." A. L. S. by the Author laid in and contains Stevenson's book- label. 511. SOUTHEY (ROBERT). The Remains of Henry Kirke White : with an Account of his Life. Portrait, engraved titles and view. 3 vols. 8vo, calf (plates foxed) . Lond. 1819-22 * Presentation Copy to ' ' Henrietta Scott Balfour, presented by Miss Somervill, 1820." 515. SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, 1796-1798, in the Ship Duff, com- manded by Capt. James Wilson. Compiled from the Journals of the Officers and the Missionaries. Maps and plates. 4to, half calf (broken and some leaves stained). Lond. 1799 516. SPENSER (EDMUND). Complete Works of Edmund Spenser, edited by R. Morris. With a Memoir by J. W. Hales. 12mo, cloth. Lond. 1879 * Stevenson 's copy, with his pencil markings and notes throughout the Fairy Qvieen. Many passages are marked and some of the notes are of an extremely interesting nature. At the end of the Second Book he has written of Gryll: ' ' There never was anything better in its way, but my heart is made sicTc with the indelible puritanical impurity of the man's soul. Se had a dirty mind; Peeping Tom, the Aboriginal Prurient Prude. ' ' In another place : ' ' Well, his weary Muse finds heart again at sniff of an enumeration; the Sea God's 'Bunlcet' is a divine meat. B. L. S." 83 FOUKTH SESSTO^^. Wednesday Afternoon, November 25, 1914. at 2:30 o'clock ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S CURIOS. The exchanging of gifts has a very prominent place in Polynesian etiquette. At every meeting of a ceremonious nature gifts are given and received, and although the visitor may see little use or value in what he receives, the gift some- times represents the most precious possession of the giver. In his travels, Stevenson carried no goods for trade purposes and bought very littk from the natives, but he received from the various native rulers many gifts of ceremony and tokens of affection, and of such the present collection of Island handi- craft is principally made up. In his book on the South Seas he tells how he had received as gifts objects he desired, after having tried in vain to buy them. He writes of the old men's beards: "/ computed that, in this commodity alone> the gifts of Yaeheh'U and Stanislao represented between two and three hundred dollars; and the queen's offical salary is of tivo hundred and forty in the year." 517. HEAD-DEBSS of Bird Feathers. South Sea Islands. 27 feathers, in red, blue and white. Length about 17 inch. * Very rare : used as part of war dress. 518. SHELL HEAD-DRESS. Marquesas Islands. Mother- of -Pearl shell, surface 6 by 6V2 inches, to which is attached a tortoise shell ornament, consisting of an embossed and perfor- ated circle, from which are suspended two hooks, the whole attached to a fibre belt, 18i/^ inch, long and 2 inch. wide. 519. GILBERT ISLAND COMB. Fan shaped. 39 laven- der colored reeds, held together with twine of native manu- facture. Length 14 inch. 520. Another. Fan shaped. 16 reeds attached to- gether with horse hair and twine of native manufacture. Four of the reeds extended as handles and decorated with glass beads. Length 11^/2 inch. 521. Another. 15 reeds held together with twine of native manufacture. Length 10 inch. * These combs were used "by the natives of the islands as ornaments for the head. 522. MARSHALL ISLAND COMB. Fan shaped. 16 reeds, held together with braided twine of native manufacture. Length, 11 inch. 523. COMB of Tortoise shell with carving of a flying bird. Of native workmanship. 84 STEVENSON CVmoS— Continued. _524. OLD JIEN'S BEARDS from the Marquesas Islands. 1/ clusters of white hair with a yellow tinge, each consisting of about 12 separate braids, all bound together with native grass twine in a fanlike design; with another bunch of 13 braids, evidently made at a different time. * Exceedingly rare and valuable. Stevenson tells of the great value the natives place on these beards in his book "In the South Seas." They represent value in the same degree that currency does, and the owner of a number of them is a wealthy and envied person. This is so because most of the South Sea Islanders cannot raise beards; and their possession is supposed to insure long life. In a note Stevenson writes: "The beards of old men are the favorite head adornment of the ilarquesans, as the hair of women form their most costly girdle. ' ' 525. NECKLACE. Made of green carved beads, some carved to resemble acorns. 21 strung on silk threads. Length 18 inches. 526. NECKLACE. Made of miniature conch-shaped shells of various colors. 78 on a string. Length 15 inches. 527. NECKLACE. i\Iade of dark brown human hair, woven together with plaited grass. Width 2 in., length 26 in. * Worn by the natives of the Gilbert Islands. 528. NECKLACE. JIade of small circular seeds. 57 seeds, some loose. Length about 14 inches. 529. PORPOISE TOOTH NECKLACE. South Sea Islands. 73 teeth, each about 1% inch, long, perforated and threaded with twine of native manufacture. * Mrs. Stevenson writes of this necklace in ' ' The Cruise of the Janet Nichol": When we met Mrs. Villiero she threw round my necTc a string of porpoise teeth, thicl- and long, the preliminary to adoption." 530. HIGH-CHIEF NECKLACE. Samoan Islands. 32 pointed teeth, each about IV2 inch, long, and 2 colored glass beads, all perforated and threaded with twine of native manu- facture. 531. NECKLACE of braided human hair, the upper part finished with red and white beads. At the bottom is a circular pendant of mother-of-pearl. The hair is of fine quality and very carefully braided. 20 inches long. 532. NECKLACE composed of the teeth of tiying foxes, interspersed with red beads; on a cord of braided fibre. 20 inches long. 533. NECKLACE. Made of white miniature conch-shaped shells. About 375 strung in a double row on plaited grass. Length 25 inches. 534. NECKLACE. Made of Cowry shells. 57 strung in a double row and attached to a black ribbon. Length 19 inches. 85 STEVENSON CUEIOS— Coniimted. 535. NECKLACE. Made of small dark brown seeds. About 400 strung on thread in 5 strands, interwoven. Length 12 inches. 536. NECKLACE of human teeth. 210 strung in a double row on plaited grass. Length 28 inches. * In "The Cruise of the Janet Niehol" Mrs. Stevenson writes: "I got an immense necMace of human teeth. A little while ago, in some of the islands, especially Mariki, a good set of teeth was a dangerous possession, as many people were murdered for them. I trust mine were .honestly come hy — at least taken in open warfare." 537. NECKLACE. Made of miniature conch-shaped shells of various colors. About 365 on string. Length 55 inches. * Presented to Stevenson by the riatives of one of the South Sea Islands. 538. NECKLACE. Golden Shell Necklace., Made of minia- ture yellow shells, separated every 2 or 3 inches by 3 dark conch-shaped shells. About 950 on string. Length 96 inches. 539. NECKLACE. Composed of the teeth of the flying fox. 272 teeth strimg in a double row on plaited grass. Length 26^ inches. 540. NECKLACE. Made of Cowry shells. 46 strung in a double row and attached to a red ribbon. Length 20^^ inches. * This necklace was worn by Mrs. E. L. Stevenson, being a present from the natives of one of the South Sea Islands. 541. NECKLACE. Made of miniature white conch-shaped shells. 117 strung in a double row and backed with plaited grass. Length 24% inches. 542. BEADS. String of eleven large translucent beads with an opalescent color. * Given to Mrs. E. L. Stevenson by John Addington Symonds. It is said that they are of the kind that were used to buy slaves with from African chiefs. 543. ORNAMENTAL GIRDLE for ceremonial dances. Made of vari-colored fibre. * This and other body ornaments or decorations made of fibre were worn by young native girls in the celebration of Steven- son's last birthday at Vailima. 544. DANCER'S ORNAMENT. Head-dress or wreath worn by young native girl at the ceremonies on Stevenson's last birthday. Made of red fibre or palm bark. 545. MARQUESAN WAR DRESS. Consisting of a petti- coat, shoulder cape, two armlets, and an anklet made of a mass of fine human hair woven on fibre bands. * Exceedingly rare. 02 m > a > M H CO m < 2; STEVENSON GVRIOS— Continued. NATIVE ARMOE. 546. GILBERT ISLAND CORSELET, made in the Island Fashion of Plaited Fibre, heavy and strong; consisting of back and front, the back extended so as to form a rear pro- tection for the head. Height to shoulder, 20 inch., extreme height at back 43 inch. * Fine piece. The head-piece being supported from the shoulders by two brackets. 547. Another. Height to shoulder, 21 inch., extreme height, including rear head piece, 33 inch. 548. Another. Height to shoulder 21 inch., extreme -height, including rear head piece, 32 inch. * The above three corselets are all of extreme interest, being the Eoyal presents given by King Tembinoka, the Tyrant of the Island of Apemama, one of the Gilbert group, to E. L. Stevenson, on the oocasion of his departure from the island in 1889. Eegarding the same, Stevenson, writing to E. L. Burling- ame in Dec, 1889, says: "Old King Tembinoka of Apemama, the Napoleon of the group, poet, tyrant, altogether a man of marl-, gave me the tcoven corselets of his grandfather, his father and his uncle, and, what pleased me more, told me their singular story, then all manner of strange tales, facts, and ex- periences for my South Sea iooTc." (See Illustration.) 549. HUMAN HAIR. Worn by a Samoan Head-chief. Brown, weight about 10 oz ; 16 inches long. 550. RINGS presented to R. L. Stevenson on visits of cere- mony in various places in the South Seas. Made of bone and tortoise-shell, some with inlays of metal. 5 pieces. 551. Another lot of similar rings. 8 pieces. 552. CARVED WOODEN FAN. South Sea Islands. Length, 11 inch, (broken). * From the Gilbert Islands, used by the natives a sa head ornament. 553. FANS. Large palm-leaf fan used at the last birthday dance given by Stevenson at Vailima, Samoa. 554. FAN. Feather fan of Chinese workmanship, trimmed wdth metal and with a bone handle. * Presented to Stevenson by Ah Poo. 555. Companion to the above, but slightly smaller. 556. FANS. Decorative fans of native grass and tapa, used at a dance given by Stevenson at Vailima on the occasion of his last birthday. 3 pieces. 557. Four more of similar character and used at the same party. 558. FANS. Five fans of Samoan workmanship, with open- work and colored borders, one ^nth an ebony handle. 5 pieces. 87 STEA'ENSON OVRIOS—Coiitimtcd. 559. FAN. Large fan of woven grass, with borders of red and green, fastened to the handle with human hair. 23 inches long. 560. FLYFLAPPER such as is used by the servants and wives of the native chiefs to keep away the very prevalent in- sects. Made of woven fibre, with a wooden handle. 561. A somewhat finer one, with bands on the handle. 562. Another, somewhat smaller. 563. Another, made of horse hair. 564. ^MARSHALL ISLAND MONEY. A string of white shell beads 80 inches long, beads less than 1/16 inch wide, con- taining over 1600 beads. With a symbolic charm at each end of the string. * A very scarce form of money, having the highest value of any used in the South Seas. 565. MARSHALL ISLAND MONEY. Bracelet. 10 inches long, with 34 pink shell beads hung from vi^oven sinnet as pendants, in the centre of which are hung two small sharp teeth as charms. Scarce. 566. MARSHALL ISLAND MONEY. Bracelet made of black ebony and white shell beads, 1 foot long, 7/16 in. wide, containing about 200 beads. Used as money in the South Sea Islands. 567. The same, composed of black ebony and white and pink shell beads, 6/16 inch wide, lli/i inches long, over 200 beads. 568. The same, made of black ebony and orange shell beads, 6/16 in. wide. 11 inches long, containing about 150 beads. * The orange colored beads are considered, sizes being equal, of greater value than other colors. 569. The same, composed of orange colored shell beads, 13 inches long, from i/t to 7/16 inches wide, containing about 150 beads. * The rarest of the bracelet form of money used in the South Seas. 570. MARSHALL ISLAND MONEY. A string of black pieces of ebony wood and white pieces of shell about 3/16 of an inch wide. About 26 feet long, containing over 3000 shells. Pine speciman. 571. Another string of pieces of black ebony and white shell about i^ of an inch wide. 77 inches long, contain- ing over 1200 pieces. 572. Another string, black ebony and white shell, % inch wide, 86 inches long, containing over 1300 pieces. 573. Armlet made of twelve strings of black ebony and white shelL % i^- wide, contains about 300 pieces. 88 STEVEXSON CVRIOS—Conliimed. 574. MARSHALL ISLAND MONEY. A String of black ebony beads, i/4 inch wide, by 64 inches long, containing nearly 1000 beads. 575. The same, 3/16 inch wide, 64 inches long, con- taining about 1000 beads. 576. CANE. Bone cane made of 48 sections, probably from the vertebrae of a snake, each section having four holes through to the centre. Horn handle with silver mountings, with an inscription "A'. L. S. from A. A. K." This cane was given to Stevenson by a missionary from Butaritari, a Hawaiian native. 34 inches long. 577. CANE made entirely of bone, with the upper half finely carved, spherical knob handle, 37 inches long. Pre- sented to Stevenson by a Hawaiian native missionary of Butaritari. 578. RIDING CROP with long raw-hide lash, wooden stock, and metal handle in the form of a horse 's leg and hoof. * Given to Stevenson by the German Captain of ' ' The Falhe. ' ' 579. CARVED STICK of Samoan wood with native in. seription. Length 37 inches. * Presented to Stevenson by Mataafa, the king of Malie, an important province of Samoa. 580. TAPA CLOTH BLANKET. Tahiti, Society Islands. Light brown, with geometrical design in black, consisting of three rectangles, one within the other, each with elaborately decorated sides about 5 inch. wide. In the center is a large tablet, bearing the following inscription: "Teva Te Ua — Teva Te Matai." Size over all, 7 ft. 10 inch, by 5 ft. 11 inch. * Beautiful specimen, in perfect condition. Very Bare. Given to Stevenson by Tati, High Chief of the Tevas and of the Terii Clan, when he and Stevenson were made Brothers. This blanket was kept hanging by Stevenson on the wall in his Vailima home, and afterwards he claimed kinship with a member of the Terii Clan. In a letter to his friends Colvin, Stevenson refers to the above ceremony and to Tati as ' ' my Chief . . for I am now a Teva and Teriitera." 581. TAPA CLOTH Blanket. Samoan islands. Creamy white, with an elaborate design in black, consisting of three circles, one within the other, diameters, 3, 5 and 7 feet re- spectively; entirely covered, between and within circles with a floral spray and variegated pattern; one corner bearing inscription in the native language, with date, 1890. Size 7 by 7 feet. * Beautiful piece. 582. TAPA cloth BLANKET. Samoan Islands. Creamy white, with an elaborately decorated geometrical design, con- sisting of two large circles and a checkered rectangular border, 4 inch. wide. Diameter of circles, 6 ft. 2 inch, and 7 ft. re- STE\'ENSON CVmOS— Continued. speetively. In center a small circle, with motto "Soifau, " meaning "IMay you Live." The whole surface from center to border being covered with a floral, checkered and varia- gated pattern. Size of blanket 6 ft. 2 inch, by 7 ft. * Beautiful specimen. 583. SAMOAN FIBER MAT. Very light weight, with fringe. Inscription in corner: "Tusitala from Sitione." Size 4 ft. 5 inch, by 5 ft. 4 inch. 584. SAMOAN FIBER MAT. Very light weight, brownish shade, with fringe. Inscription in comer "Aotele, 5, from Talolo." Size 4 ft. 6 inch, by 6 ft. * A present to Mrs. Stevenson. 585. SAMOAN FIBER MAT. Light weight, with fringe. With inscription in corner " Tusitala-Folau. Size 4 ft. 5 inch. by 5 ft. (slightly worn). 586. AMULET. Old Hawaiian. Made of Human Hair and Human Bone ; consisting of a curved handle, 4 inch, long, carved out of human bone, mth hole in center, through which are attached two clusters of endless chain braids made of human hair, one of 46 chains and the other of 53 chains, each 25 inch. long. * Very rake. Made by the natives, to wear as an amulet. 587. SMALL WAR CLUBS, one round-headed, tapering to a smaller round handle the other with three-sided head, tapering to a round handle. Lengths 20 and 23 inches re- spectively. 2 pieces. 588. WAR CLUB of native wood with six small knobs of the head. 33 inches long. 589. WOODEN WAR CLUB. Made of native wood, with an octagonal head tapering to a round handle. 30V2 inches long. 590. CEREMONIAL SPEAR. South Sea Islands. Carved wood. Upper-half of spear. Length, 5 ft. 2 inch. 591. Another. Upper half of spear. Carved portion. Length, 4 ft. 6 inches (small piece broken off the top). 592. Another. Upper half of spear. Carved portion. Length, 4 ft. 5 inch. 593. Another. Length, 4 ft. 2 inch. 594. SOUTH SEA ISLAND WAR CLUB or Battle Axe, with head of flint worked to a sharp or cutting edge> fastened to a handle of native wood by an ingeniously stitched piece of rawhide. Length of handle 24 inches. 595. FIJI ISLANDS. Throwing stick, or war club. Made of wood with ball-like head, 8 inches round, length 9 inches. 596. WAR CLUB of heavy wood with a round head and carved handle. 16 inches in length. 90 STEVENSON GVm.OS— Continued. 597. STONE MISSILE used by the native when fighting, given to Mrs. Stevenson while cruising in the "Janet Nichol." A curiously shaped stone, pointed at each end, used by the islanders in warfare. It is of convenient size to hold in the hand, and very heavy. 598. SAMOAN KAVA BOWL with four legs, carved from a solid piece of hard native wood. Diameter 291^ inches, standing 11 inches. With some of the fibre used for straining the Kava. * A beautiful specimen. Kava is the Samoau national drink, made of the powdered root of the Kava plant. 599. KAVA EOOT. Five pieces of the root of this im- portant Samoan plant. Grown on Stevenson's plantation at Vailima. 600. Another lot of four pieces. 601. GOUGE used in making of canoes. Curved handle of very tough wood with a sharpened blade of flint fastened to it with cocoanut fibre. Fine specimen. 602. BREAD-FRUIT CUTTER, shaped like the head of a tomahawk and made of wood, 7 x 3i/4 in. ; also a scraper, made of a shell, 314 x 2% in. Both attached to the ends of a plaited grass rope. * These came from Tautira on the island of Tahiti. 603. COOKING BOWL AND STONES. Used by natives of the South Seas for cooking food. Bowl is made of wood with 4 legs, all in one piece, oval shaped. With 11 in., height 41/^ in., leng-th 18 in. Stones are circular shaped. Diameter 21/2 in- 3 pieces. * Pine specimens of the culinary utensils of the South Sea Islands, the bowl being used as a receptable for food; the stones are thrown in after being heated red-hot, thus cooking the food. NATIVE FISH HOOKS. Most of the native fishing is done with a spear or with a "bright-hook" mounted on a brilliant piece of mother-of- pearl. These hooks are usually made of bone and fastened to the pearl shell with native grass or hair; if the native had a metal hook bought from a trader, he was very fortunate. 604. TAHITI FISH HOOK made by the Natives of the Society Islands, consisting of a bone hook attached with twine to a piece of pearl shell. Length, 4 inch. 605. Another, same as above. Length 3i/4 inch. 606. Another : Consisting of 2 iron hooks attached to a mother-of-pearl shell by means of twine. Length 4 inch. * Made by the natives for sea fishing. 91 STEVENSOX GVmOS— Continued. 607. FISH-HOOK. South Sea Islands. Large bone hook, attached to bone handle with mother-of-pearl back. With several feet of twine. Length, 4^ inch. * Made by the natives fox sea fishing. 608. Bone hook attached to stone of amber color. Length, 3 inch. 609. FISH HOOK HANDLES. South Sea Islands. Made of mother-of-pearl. 21/2 and 3 inch. long. 2 pieces. 610. FISH-HOOK HANDLE. Mother-of-pearl. Length, 31/2 inch. 611. SINKER. South Sea Islands. Used in Sea fishing. Made of mother-of-pearl. Length, 5i/^ inch. 612. SHARK HOOK. Wooden Shark Hook with a Sinnet Rope. Hook measures 13 inches long by 7 inches at the widest part. The rope is about three feet long and I/2 ^^oh thick. 613. SEA CHART. Native map or sea chart made and used by the islanders of the South Seas; composed of strips -of wood fastened together with fibre and string, the islands being indicated by shells and the various currents by curved wooden cross pieces. 2 feet 3 inches by 4 feet. * In her book ' ' The Cruise of the Janet Niehol, ' ' Mrs. Steven- son writes : ' ' These charts are very curious things indeed, made of sticks, some curved, some straight, caught here and there iy a small yellow cowry. The cowries represent islands, the sticTcs hoth currents and winds and days' sailing These charts are very little used now, only one old chief knowing how to make them, ' ' etc. 614. SEA CHART. Another chart, similar to the above, -except in size. 2 feet 10 inches by 2 feet 8 inches. * These charts are excessively rare and of the highest interest to museums, private collectors, and ethnologists. (See Ilustration.) 615. STEVENSON (ALAN). Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse, with Notes on the Illumination' of Lighthouses. Frontispiece, 33 _ full-page plates and numerous text illustra- tions. 4to, russia (1 cover loose, frontispiece and margin of some plates stained). Edin. 1848 616. STEVENSON (DAVID). Life of Robert Stevenson. Portrait, 12 full-page plates and text illustrations. Royal 8vo, «loth. gain. 1878 * Presentation inscription, on title, by the Author to M. I. Stevenson, mother of E. L. Stevenson. 93 617. STEVENSON (ROBERT). An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House. Engraved plates. 4to, sewed (covers missing). Edin. 1824 * Interesting Association Copy. Presented to Thomas Steven- son by his father, with autograph inscription by Robert Stevenson. The volume contains also many mai-ginal pencilings and a few notes, and undoubtedly was thoroughly perused by R. L. Stevenson in his younger days. 618. STEVENSON (ROBERT). An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House. Title-page and Dedication only. With 47 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS inserted. 4to, half morocco (rubbed). Edin. 1824 * Thomas Stevenson's Copy, the Autograph Letters being mostly addressed to him There is an interesting letter from Sir Walter Scott to Robert Stevenson, referring to the Dedi- cation to the King in the above work, in which he says : ' ' With the alteration of situated for situate I think the enclosed sheet requires no correction." A letter from Mrs. Neill refers to Scott's approbation of the Dedication mentioned above. Among the other Autograph Material are Letters by W. J. M. Rankine. the eminent civil engineer; David Brewster, the Philosopher; George Wilson, the eminent chemist; Michael Faraday, the celebrated philosopher; John Tyndall, James D. Fooles, R. Jameson, W. Wallace and others. Many of the letters are in answer to a presentation copy from Thomas Stevenson of his work on Light-Houses. With autograph signature of Thomas Stevenson on fly-leaf. 619. STEVENSON (ROBERT). Biographical Sketch of the late Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer. By Alan Steven- son. Read at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, now printed, with a few additions. Portrait and plate. Small 4to, cloth (plates stained). Edin. 1861 * Autograph Signature of Thomas Stevenson. 620. STEVENSON (ROBERT). Journal of a Trip to Holland. Communicated ... in letters to his daughter. 16mo, cloth. Edin. 1848 * Presentation copy: "To Dear Boh, with kind love, June 20, 184S, 3 Baxter Place, Edinburgh." There are 2 marginal notes by Thomas Stevenson. 621. STEVENSON (ROBERT). Original Manuscript Memoranda, Relative to Sir Walter Scott's Voyage Round the Coast of Scotland, with a Deputation of the Commis- sioners of the Northern Lighthouses in the Year 1814. By Robert Stevenson, Engineer of the Lighthouse Board. 110 pages of closely written manuscript in 2 vols. 8vo, marbled wrappers. Edin. 1850 * Extremely interesting and valuable item relating to the life of Sir Walter Scott. With a 1 page A. L. S. by Robert Ste- venson, written shortly before his death, dated Baxter Place, June 38, 1850, to Mrs. Warden, regarding his " Reminiscences of Scott" and proposing that she continue it : "I had written a few pages in the waste paper at. the end of the second vol. of Sir Walter Scott's life when I was taken ill. If you think of con- tinuing it— or any of the Misses for you it is well." Across the corner of this letter Thomas Stevenson has written: "My father died on mh of July of this year, or U days after." There is 93 also the following note in the handwriting of Thomas Steven- son, on title of second vol. : "This seems to he later MS. than the other volume." These Reminiscences, written by Robert Stevenson, the cele- brated Scotch engineer, shortly before his death and 36 years after the eventful cruise, contain may interesting sketches, some of a personal nature, showing the intimacy that existed between Sir Walter Scott and some of his fellow-travellers. Although the author wished his memoranda to be continued, the same was not brought before the public until his grandson, R. L. Stevenson, published it, with some slight editing on his own part, in the October number of Soribner's Magazine, in 1893. 632. STEVENSON (ROBERT). Original Manuscript Journal by one of Robert Stevenson's sons, containing daily entries in the son's handwriting, from Aug. 17 to Oct. 31, 1820, with numerous corrections and additions in the handwriting of Robert Stevenson. 269 pages of closely written manuscript. 8vo, half sheep (broken). *An extremely interesting item relating to the Life of Robert Stevenson, the eminent Scotch engineer, containing incidents on land and sea during a tour of official inspection of the North- ern Lighthouses of Scotland, and a voyage to the South of France and Bordeaux; including many interesting historical and descriptive sketches of islands, cities and towns in Scot- land, the fishery industries, lighthouses, etc.; with notices of his father's connections with the improvement of the harbor of Freyburgh, the bridge at Mary kirk, the lighthouse at Bell Rock (the first to be governed by machinery), etc. ; also his grand- father's (Thomas Smith's) connection with Kinnaird Head Lighthouse; mentions his brother Alan and his sister Jane. Several of the entries have corrections in Robert Stevenson's- handwriting, who has also supplied much additional informa- tion in his own hand, including a description of a Curious "Wooden Lock and Key. a Visit to an Old Castle of the Mac- Donals, the Island of Easdale and its Slate Quarries, The Orkney Islands, Lock Lee Canal, Pladdo Lighthouse, and numerous other entries. Among the longer ones (written in conjunction with his son) being descriptions of Glasgow, Ply- mouth, Portsmouth, London and Bordeaux. At the end is the following note, showing the curious spell- ing of many words used by the younger Stevenson : " For this Journall ice are chiefly indeted to the persiverance of my Father, who on all convenuant oeastions alloted part of the day to sugest the proper subjects for observetion in hopes that in our future journeys or purshuts of life we might keep up' and observe the same practise." 633. STEVENSON (ROBERT ALAN MOWBRAY, R. L. S.'s "Cousin Bob"). Five lines in his autograph, signed, written while a youngster at play with R. L. S. [m. 1856-7] * In referring to the vividness of their play Graham Balfour writes: "One of their chief delights was in rival kingdoms of their own invention— Nosington and Encyclopaedia, of which they were perpetually drawing maps." Nosingtonia was "shapied a little like Ireland"; Encyclopaedia, Louis' Island, "lay diagonally across the paper like a large tip-cat." The above is one of the state papers of that period, reading as fol- lows: • 'Received by me from Bex Encyclopaidia 1 air gun of Gnmdrungia cloth and 1000 yards therefore in exchange for- the Pine Islands.— R. Stevenson, Rex Nozzinton." 94 634. STEVENSON (R. L.). The Pentland Rising: a Page of History, 1666. First Edition. 16mo, original green wrappers. Edin. 1866 * Fine copy of the author's first publication. A small number of copies were privately issued, the greater portion of which were bought up by his father. This little pamphlet, which was written by Stevenson when he was barely sixteen years old, was the outcome of the interest taken by him in the stories of the Covenanters that he had learned from his nurse. 625. STEVENSON (R. L.). Notice of the New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses. From the Transac- tions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. First Edition. 8vo, sewed. Edin. ls71 * Very rare. This Essay, to which was awarded the Society's Silver Medal, was read before the Society on March 27, 1^71. Only a few copies (probably not more than 50) were issued separately from the types of the Transactions, with the pagi- nation altered, and a title page added. 626. STEVENSON (R. L.). On the Thermal Influence of Forests. From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 8vo, thin dark blue wrappers. Edin, 187S * Second separate issue of the First Edition. 627. Another copy. The same. 628. Another copy. The same. 629. STEVENSON (R. L.). An Inland Voyage. First Edition. 12mo, original blue cloth, top edges untrimmed (binding slightly soiled). Lond. 1878 *Stevbnson's Own Copy op his First Published Book. The rare First Edition. 630. STEVENSON (R. L.). Tite-page and fly-leaf of the fifth edition of " Travels with a Donkey." London, 1886. 4 pp. 12mo. On the half-title Stevenson has written the name and address of the printers, and he has made changes in the list of books " By the same Author." After making the corrections he wrote at the bottom: " Pray send down to n Heriot Row and find a copy of ' Prince Otto. ' You will there see ivhat I mean, if this is still incomprehensible." 631. STEVENSON (R.L.). Deacon Brodie: or, The Double Life: a Melodrama. By R. L. Stevenson and W. E. Henley. First Edition. Small 8vo, original wrappers. [Edin.] 1880 * The Very Rare Original Edition. An extremely interesting Association Copy, with autograph signature of W. E. Henley, and inscription on title " Charles Warner, from the authors." Contains numerous pen and pencil markings and marginal notes, both in the handwriting of Henley and Stevenson. Ap- parently Henley's own copy, with his manuscript notes and corrections in inJj, sent by him to Charles Warner, and after- wards received by Stevenson, who has penciled out several lines, including the inscription, and added several marginal corrections of the text in pencil. 632. STEVENSON (R. L.). Large colored bill-board Poster for Stevenson's "Deacon Brodie," when it was pro- duced under the title of " The Double Life " by Haldane Crichton's Company. In 8 sections (slightly torn). 95 633. STEVENSON (R. L.). The Old Pacific Capital (Monterey), the Woods and the Pacific. [Eraser's Maga- zine, Nov., 1880.1 First Edition. 8vo, wrappers. Lond. 1880 634. STEVENSON (R. L.). Testimonials in Favour of Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate. First Edition. 8vo, original wrappers. [Edin. 1881] * Very bare. Issued by R. L. Stevenson, in a limited num- ber, for circulation among the Electors of the University of Edinburgh, in support of his candidature for the Chair of His- tory; an attempt vi^hioh he himself afterwards characterized as "a mad thing." Contains letters from several distinguished men of the time, among them J. A, Symonds, Andrew Lang and Edmund Gosse, and is essential to collectors of first editions of these authors. 635. STEVENSON" (R. L.). New Arabian Nights. First American Edition. 16mo, cloth (binding soiled)., N. Y. 1883 * With visiting card of R. L. Stevenson. Laid in is a visiting card of B. H. Gausseron, to R. L. Stevenson, relating to the former's translation of the "New Arabian Nights" into French: "I hope earnestly to set about the New Arabian Nights in February next. Am very puzzled by the title, and at a loss to find a good French equivalent. Could you suggest anyf" 636. STEVENSON (R. L.). An Inland Voyage. 16mo, cloth. Bost. 1883 * "With visiting card of R. L. Stevenson. 637. STEVENSON (R. L ). Treasure Island. Map. First Edition. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1883 * On the title-page Stevenson has written: " 76,000 words." 638. STEVENSON (R. L.). A Note on Realism. Galley proof of this article, which was printed in " The Magazine of Art," November, 1883. 3 long slips bearing an inscrip- tion in the handwriting of W. E. Henley: '' S/9/8S. By return, please, W. E H. 'Facture' ???." * Reprinted in the Edinburgh Edition. 639. STEVENSON (R. L.). Across the Plains. Leaves from the Notebook of an Emigrant between New York and San Francisco. Original proof sheets of the above work as printed in Longman's Magazine for July and August, 1883. *The two parts comprise 35 pages and on each partis the label of " Longman's," with the name and address of Andrew Lang on Part 1. There are a few corrections, probably in Lang's handwriting. 640. HENLEY (W. E.) AND STEVENSON (R. L.). Beau Austin. A Play in Four Acts. 12mo, original wrappers, UNCUT. Edin.: For Private Circulation Only, 1884 * First Edition. Scarce. On the wrapper is an inscription: "To be returned to W. E. Henley, 61 Richmond Gardens, Shepherds Bush, London, W." At the bottom Henley has crossed out the inscription and written " For Private Circula- tion Only." and throughout the text there are corrections in his handwriting. 96 641. HENLEY (W. E.) and STEVENSON (R. L.). Ad- miral Guinea. A Melodrama in Four Acts. I'-imo, original wrappers. Edin. 1884 * First Edition. Scarce. On the cover are the initials of Henley, written by him, and he has written Stevenson's on the title-page. A number of the passages in the play are marked or crossed out with pencil. 642. HENLEY (W. E.) AND STEVENSON (R. L.). Ma- caire: a Melodramatic Farce in Three Acts. By W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson. First Edition. Bvo, original printed wrappers, uncut. Edin. : Printed for Private Circulation only, 1885 * Extremely rare, only a few copies printed. W. E. Hen- ley's autograph initials " W. E. H." on wrapper. 643. PLAY-BILL for " Macaire " at the Athenaeum, Shepherd's Bush [London]. On Monday, December 12th [1887]. Admission: Reserved seats £1/1/- Unnumbered seats, 10s. 6d. Measures 15 by 20 inches; folded. * Extremely rare. 644. STEVENSON (R. L.). On Style in Literature: its Technical Elements [Contemporary Review Advertiser, April, 1885]. First Edition. 8vo, sewed (covers missing). Lond. 1885 * Contains two pencil corrections by Stevenson. 645. STEVENSON (R. L.). The Silverado Squatters. Sketches from a Californian Mountain. 8vo, original wrappers, uncut (creased in center). Lond.: Chatto &Windus [1883] * Exceedingly rare. The text is the same as that pub- lished in the Century Magazine, and there were but 10 copies issued for copyright purposes. It consists of 14 pages, enclosed in pale green wrappers. On the inside of tbe front cover is an Inscription in the handwriting of Edmund Gosse: " This pub- lication, one of an edition of 10 copies only, was issued this morning, Oct. 17. 188S, and vias bought by me for the paltry sum of 6d. and is now by me presented with my blessing to Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson. Edmund Qosse." 646. STEVENSON (R. L.). The Silverado Squatters. New Edition, 12mo, cloth (few pages stained). Lond. 1886 647. STEVENSON (R. L.). Prince Otto. A Romance. 13mo, boards (back broken). Lond. Ib86 * With visiting card of R. L. Stevenson on title page. 648. STEVENSON (R. L.). The New Amphion. Being the Book of the Edinburgh University Union Fancy Fair. Illustrated. 16mo, parchment, with ties (covers cracked). Edin. 1886 * Presentation copy from Stevenson's mother, with inscrip- tion: '• 8. Lloyd Osbourne, with kind love from M. I. Stevenson, Jan. 1, 1887." 97 649. STEVENSON (R. L.)- Markheim. The Broken Shaft, Tales in Mid-Ocean. Edited by Henry Norman. First Edition. Illustrations. 4to, original wrappers (back wrapper missing, last page slightly torn). Lond. 1886 * Though dated 1886 this Annual was published in Dec, 1885. f 660. STEVENSON (R. L.). The Merry Men and other Tales and Fables. First Edition. 12mo, cloth. Lond. 1887 * Stevenson's own copy, with his visiting card pasted in. 651. STEVENSON (R. L.). New Arabian Nights. ISmo, cloth (covers soiled). N. Y. 1887 * Stevenson's personal copy, in which he has written at the end of each story the name of the place in which it was written. There are no less than 13 different addresses, and it is very interesting to know that "The Rajah's Diamond " was written at Barbizon, Rue St. Jacques (Paris), and at Le Monas- tier, etc. 653. STEVENSON (R. L.). Progamme of the Madison Square Theatre, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1887. Richard Mansfield and Production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Small 4to, illustrated wrappers. (N. Y. 1887) * Programme of the Play as dramatised by T. R. SuUivan from Stevenson's book. 653. STEVENSON (R. L.). The Black Arrow. First Edition. 12mo, original cloth (signature loose and a little shaken). Lond. 1888 *With note on title page: "85,000 words." 654. STEVENSON (R. L.). Father Damien: an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu from Robert Louis Stevenson. 8vo, wire stitched (title slightly soiled). Sydney, 1890 * First Edition. Scarce. Privately issued by the author for presentation among his friends. 655. STEVENSON (R. L.). The South Seas: a Record of Three Cruises. First Edition. i-.imo, marbled wrap- pers. Edin. 1890 * Privately feinted issue. Extremely rake. Of this edition only 32 copies were printed for copyright purposes in Nov., 1890, and of this small number 15 copies were out up for serial use, leaving seven copies only to pass into circulation. The present copy, having been reserved by Stevenson for his own use, contains many corrections, marginal notes and some cancellations, in pencil; also a few in ink. The Corrections throughout are in the ADToaEAPH OF Stevenson; while the Marginal Notes are criticisms by and in the autograph of Mrs Stevenson. A most desirable item. Only one other copy has appeared at public sale in America. 656. STEVENSON (R. L.). Corrected title-page for "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." It bears the printer's stamp, is a.ddressed to Stevenson and he has changed his name on the title to read in full instead of R. L. Stevenson. 1 p. 12mo. 667. [STEVENSON (R. L.).] The Untold Sequel of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I'^mo, wrappers. Bost. [1890] 658. STEVENSON (R. L.). The House of Tembinoka [Scribner's Magazine, July, 1890]. First Edition. 8vo, sewed, uncut (wrappers missing). N. Y. 1890 659. STEVENSON (R. L.). An Object of Pity; or, the man Haggard. A Romance. By many Competent Hands. Square 13mo, parchment wrappers, with name in gilt, gilt edges. Imprinted at Amsterdam [1892] * First Edition. Very scarce. The Dedication and " Late, ever late " were written by Stevenson under his native name of "Tusitala." The other parts were written by the following: Chap. 1. Captain Leigh (Lady Jersey's brother); Chap. 2. Lady Jersey; Chap. 3. Mrs. R. L. Stevenson; Chap. 5. Mrs. Isobel Strong; Epilogue. Graham Balfour. "The man Haggard" was Mr. Bazett Michael Haggard, an English Land Commis- sioner in Samoa, and the brother of H. Rider Haggard. 660. [STEVENSON (R. L.).] Ob.i'ects of Pity; or. Self and Company. By a Gentleman of Quality [B M. Hag- gard]. [Reply to "An Object of Piety; or, The Man Hag- gard, a Romance," by Many Hands (with Contributions by Stevenson).] 12mo, vellum wrappers, gilt edges. Imprinted at Amsterdam [Sydney, 1892] * Very Rare. Only a few copies said to have been issued privately by Lady Jersey, at Sydney, during the summer of 1893. The present volume contains several marginal notes, and some cancellations ; in one place a line from one of Stevenson's poems being inserted. 661. STEVENSON (R. L.). Scott's Voyage in the Light- house Yacht. Note and Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott. By R. L. Stevenson. [Scribner's Magazine, Oct. 1893.] First Edition. 8vo, wrappers, uncut. N. Y. 1893 662. STEVENSON (R. L.). A Foote-note to History. Press-notices, newspaper clippings from various papers neatly mounted and bound. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. 663. STEVENSON (R. L.). A letter to Mr. Stevenson's Friends (with Prefatory Note by Lloyd Osbourne and Poem by E. Gosse). First Edition. 16mo, wire stitches, uncut, unopened at bottom. [Samoa] 1894 * Issued from Private Circulation only ; without imprint, but believed to have been printed in Samoa. One of a limited number on thick paper. 664. STEVENSON (R. L.). An original sketch-book of thirty-three leaves, with wash, pencil, and pen-and-ink drawings by R. L. Stevenson. Oblong 12mo, limp cloth covers, leather back. * The signature " R. Stevenson, Edinburgh" on a fly-leaf. The contents may be briefly given as follows: Two water- color drawings of Scottish cottages; a pen-and-ink drawing of architectural detail ; a pencil sketch of coast scenery ; signed " R. S."; eight pencil sketches of seamen and fishermen seen about the wharfs of Edinburgh, two of them touched up in water-oolors; a fine pencil drawing of a fisherman's cottage and surroundings; about a dozen nude studies in pen and pencil, some finished in colors, and one labeled " after Blake "; several character sketches, etc. In addition to these there are five MS. poems by Stevenson, on the beauties of "Moon- light" or kindred subjects; also many other MS. notes and memoranda throughout. 665. WATER-COLOR by R. L. Stevenson. Callander, a small town 30 miles W.S.S. of Perth in Scotland, with a distant view of the highlands. Size 15^ x 8|^ inches. * Stevenson in his youth was very fond of painting and drawing in water-colors, and he evidently retained this speci- men as a reminder of the beauties of his native country. 666. SKETCH BOOK belonging to Stevenson and used by him on his trip to Prance in 1878. 44 pages, oblong 12mo, cloth, leather back. * Most of the sketches were drawn in the vicinity of Mona- stier, "A Mountain Town in France," and on the trip which is described in " Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes." It contains many pencil drawings of such places as Chateau Beaufort, the Valley of the Laussonne, Lantriac, Chateau Neuf, etc. There are also a few studies of heads and figures. Almost all have captions in Stevenson's handwriting, and on one of the pages is an apparently original and unpublished prayer, beginning ; " Ood who hast created our humble selves and the earth that supplies, supports, and contains us, having brought us so far, do not, O God, desert us," etc. Five of the sketches were published in the pamphlet, "A Mountain Town in France." (See Illustration.) 667. STEVENSON (R. L.). Original sketch book with 24 leaves of water color drawings and pencil sketches made by R. L. Stevenson when a boy, on his first trip to England. Oblong 12mo, cloth boards, leather back (loose). * On the first page he has printed " R. L. B. S. The Book of Devonshire." Then follow in order the sketches labelled as follows: " Old house Exeter, near the Cathedral," a wash and pencil drawing; The " 3 Bell Tower at Illsham;'' " Torquay newsvender," water color; "Cottage near the Kocky Valley," pencil sketch; "An Old Woman seen- near Caignton," water- color; Two men in top hats on the "Pier, Torquay," water- color; "An Old Irishman, Torquay," wnter-coloi; and about fifteen others, some pencil sketches and others well finished in colors. 668. STEVENSON (THOMAS). Lighthouse Illumina- tion : Being a Description of the Holophotal System, &c. Plates. 8vo, boards (badly shaken, title and 4 leaves miss- ing), n. p. [1859] * Interesting copy, containing marginal notes, corrections, additions, etc. , also a few clippings from another copy contain- ing notes in the author's handwriting. This copy was appar- ently used as the groundwork for an enlarged and second edition. Presentation inscription by the Author: " To the Royal So- ciety of Edinburgh, from the Author." 100 l^^ 4 4? ^w^-w^.lr— '^^'^^^^^ From Stevenson's Sketch Book, 1878. (See No. 666.) 669. STEVENSON (MRS. THOMAS). Gleanings by M. I. Stevenson, 1878. Manuscript Record, containing Sayings and Remarks made by her Husband, Thomas Stevenson, including a few by her son Robert Louis. 7 pages; also at end of vol. 11 pages in the handwriting of Mrs. Stevenson, containing a Record of Poems by R. L. S., including an Impromptu Poem at Breakfast in 1865 ; Lines sent to Cecilia H. Balfour on Nov. 17, 1869; Poem written to his mother in California, 1880; Dedication of "Penny Whistles," 1884; Lines on the Anniversary of his Marriage, 1885; Poem by Henley on Stevenson, etc. All in the handwriting of his mother. 4to, roan. 670. STEVENSON (MRS. THOMAS— mother of Robert L.). Notes about Robert Louis Stevenson. Unpublished Manuscript in the Handwriting of Mrs. Thomas Stevenson. 106 pp. 4to, roan. * An interesting and valuable memento of Stevenson's life, written by his mother in the form of a diary and containing many interesting notices of his life, from his childhood days to the close of the year 1888, including records of various dates of travel, memoranda gleaned from his letters to his mother, personal traits of his childhood days, his witty sayings and doings while at home, notices of some of his publications, a long account of the family's first year in America and the Voyage to the South Seas. 671. STIRLING (JAMES). Extract of the Process of Treason, . . . Against James Stirling of Keir, and others, 1708; A Short Account of the Proceedings in the Criminal- Oourt, At the Trj'al of James Stirling of Keir, 1709. 3 pam- phlets bound in 1 vol. Small folio (1 title torn and 2 pp. stained). Edin. 1708-9 672. STODDARD (C. W.). Mashallah! a Flight Into Egypt. 16mo, cloth (small stain on margins of few leaves). N. Y. 1881 * Author's Autograph Inscription: " R. L. Stevenson, with the love of his friend— C. W. Stoddard." 673. [STODDARD (C. W.).] A Troubled Heart and How It Was Comforted at Last. First Edition. 16mo, cloth, gilt edges. Notre Dame, Ind., 1885 * Author's Autograph Inscription : ' ' Louis <& Fanny Steven- son, with the love of their devoted friend, the author." 674. SYMONDS (JOHN A.). Animi Figura. First Edition. 16mo, cloth, uncut (holes in a few pages). Lond. 1882 * With visiting card of R. L. Stevenson, and a few notes at the back. 675. SYMONDS (JOHN A.). Wine, Women, and Song; Mediaeval Latin Students' Song. Now first Translated into English Verse, with an Essay. First Edition. l-2mo, vellum boards, uncut (binding soiled). Lond. 1884 *With visiting card of R. L. Stevenson. The book is dedi- cated to him. 101 676. TALES about Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. By Peter Parley. Illustrated. Thick 16mo, cloth, gilt edges (cover slightly broken). Lend., n. d. * Presented to Stevenson in his sixth year, with inscription: " R. Leivis Balfour Stevenson. With love & hest wishes from his aff'te Aunt, Louisa E. Balfour. 5th August 1866." The illustrations have bsen crudely colored and there are a few childish attempts at drawing and writing. 677. TAYLOR (IDA A). Allegiance: a Novel. Fikst Edition. 2 vols. I'^mo, cloth (bindings slightly soiled). Lond. 1886 * With Book-Plate of R. L. Stevenson in each volume. 678. TENNYSON (ALFRED). Maud, and other Poems. First Edition. Small 8vo, old scored sheep, gilt edges (worn, part of back missing, lacks half title and leaf of ad- vertisements). Lond. 1855 *With Stevenson's initials, in pencil, on the title, and a short note also in pencil on p. 43. 679. TENNYSON (ALFRED). The Works of Alfred Tennyson. (Vol. IV.) Lucretius, and Other Poems. Frontispiece. 16mo, cloth. Lond 1874 * With Book-plate of R. L. Stevenson and marginal pen- cilings. 680. THOREAU. His Life and Aims. A Study, by H. A. Page. Portrait and illustrations. First Edition. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1878 * On the front and back fly-leaves are several 'verses in the handwriting of Stevenson, and there are a number of marginal notes. One of the verses reads: ' ' There was a bard in Monterey Hose early in the morn. And all that saw him, go his way Regarded him with scorn. O. how then was the poet dressed? Not very much at all His pants belonged to someone else His coat was very small." This book probably was used in preparing his essay on " Henry David Thoreau: his Character and Opinions." 681. TRENCH (RICHARD C). On the Study of Words: Lectures addressed (originally) to the Pupils of the Dioce- san Training School, Winchester. Small bvo, cloth (back a little broken). Lond. 1853 * Presentation Copy to Alan Stevenson. Contains book-plate of R. L. Stevenson, on which appears above his name " Stolen by " and under name " and now by him returned," in R. L. Stevenson's handwriting. 682. TRIAL. A Full and Impartial Account of the Tryal Of the Reverend Mr. Francis Higgins, Before His Grace the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland. Small folio, half roan (title and 1 p. soiled). Lond. 1712 103 683. TRIALS. The Proceedings on his Majesty's Com- missions of Oyer and Terminer, for the High Court of Ad- miralty of England, etc. Being numerous pamphlets of trials and proceedings bound in 8 vols. 4to, various bind- ings. Lond. 1733-92 * Wi-iting on several of the covers and fly leaves, probably that of Thomas Stevenson. 684. TRIAL of James Stewart in Aucharn in Duror of Appin, for the Murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure, Esq. ; Factor for his Majesty on the forfeited estate of Ardshiel. 8vo, original boards, uncut (bacls: broken). Edin. 1753 * From this book Stevenson took the historical part of " Kid- napped." The Appin murder, the adventures of Allan Breck, and his flight from the authorities are here set forth. A num- ber of slips of paper have been used to mark certain pages, and some of these bear the handwriting of Stevenson. 685. TRIAL. The Trial of Katharine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie. For the Crimes of Incest and Murder. 8vo, half calf (few pp. stained). Edinburgh, 1765 * Contains additional manuscript matter (19 pp.) relating to the case. 686. TRIAL. The Trial of John Grant, Sheriff-Clerk Depute of the Shire of Inverness, for Forgery. 12mo, sewn, uncut. Edinburgh, 1793 687. TUDOR TRANSLATIONS. Montaigne. The Essays of Montaigne. Done into English by John Florio. With an Introduction by George Saiutsbury. Edited by W. E. Henley. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1893 * Dedicated to R. L. Stevenson. Very scarce. 688. TUDOR TRANSLATIONS. Apuleius. The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Translated by William Adlington. With an Introduction by Charles Whibley. Edited by W. E. Henley. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1893 * Scarce. 689. VACQUERIE (AUGUSTE). Les Miettes de I'His- toire. Bvo, half calf (broken and some pp. stained). Paris, 1863 * With visiting card of R. L. Stevenson. 690. VARILLAS. Histoire de Louis XI. 2 vols. 4to, old marbled calf, gilt (cracked). Paris, 1689 691. VIRGIL. PubliusVirgilius Marco. Bucolica, Geog- ica, et Aeneis. Map (torn). 18mo, calf (broken). Parisiis, [1778] * Signature " R. S.'' and marginal pencilings. Inscription by D. L. Roy to " Gulielmo Hay " on half-title. 692. VOLTAIRE. Oeuvres Completes De Voltaire. Por- trait. Vols. 1-34. 24 vols. 8vo, boards (few backs torn and pp. stained). Paris 1817 * With note and figures at end of 2 vols., in handwriting of R. L. Stevenson. 103 693. VOYAGES of Capt. George Roberts, Lond. 1726 (incomplete); The Art of Perfumery (Piesse), Lond. 1856; Life of God in the Soul of Man (Scougal), lacks title; and two others. Together 5 vols, various sizes and bindings. *The last mentioned contains the signature of Thomas Stevenson. 694. VULPONE; or, Remarks on some Proceedings in Scotland, Relating both to the Union and Protestant Suc- cession since the Revolution. 29 pp. 4to, sewed (few pp. have lower line shaved). n. p. [1707] 695. WALAEUS (ANTONIUS). Compendium Ethics Aristoteliese. 12mo, half russia (cracked). With auto- graph of Thomas Stevenson. Lugd. Batavor. : ex ofQcina Elzeviriana, 1636 696. WALTON (IZAAK). The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Her- bert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson. Portraits and illustrations. Small 8vo, cloth (back a little broken). Lond. 1840 * Autograph signature of R. L. Stevenson, with quotation in his handwriting: "O what a power hath white simplicity. — Keats. " 697. [WEBSTER (JAMES). J Lawful Prejudices against an Incorporating Union with England; or, some modest Considerations on the sinfulness of this Union, and the Danger flowing from it to the Church of Scotland. First Edition. Small 4to, unbound (soiled). Edin. 1707 * Scarce. Contemporary MS. notes on the margins of two pages. 698. WEBSTER (JOHN). Love's Graduate. A Comedy. 4:to, half vellum, uncut (a few edges stained, back broken). Oxford: Private Press of H. Daniel, 1885 *With inscription on fly-leaf: "Robert Louis Stevenson, from his, Edmund Oosse. 5. 6.85," 699. WEBSTER & TOURNEUR (Best Plays of). With an Introduction and Notes by J. A. Symonds. Unexpur- gated Edition. Frontispiece and facsimile. 12mo, cloth. Lond. : Vizetelly, 1888 700. WELLINGTON (DUKE OF). The Despatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington : During his Vari- ous Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, The Low Countries and France, 1799-1818. Compiled from Official and Authentic Documents by Lieut. Colonel Gur- wood. With Supplement to vols. 1, 2 and 3 and Index to vols. 1-12. 14 vols. 8vo, boards and sewed, uncut (covers broken, 3 titles and one leaf missing). Lond. 1834-39 * Penciled notes and figures on margins and fly-leaves, in handwriting of R. L. Stevenson, including the following com- ment on Napoleon: "To accuse fatality and the faults of others is an unintelligent, even childish trick to explain away disaster, but it seems that vanity and the habit of success had so far clouded the great genius of N." Also many marginal penciliugs. 104 701. WELLINGTON (ARTHUR, DUKE OF). Supple- mentary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington. Edited by his son, The Dulce of Wellington. 15 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut [i vols, in half calf) (some backs broken). Lond. 1868-72 * With Book-plates of E. L. Stevenson and Lieut. General Parker in 2 vols. 702. WEYMAN (STANLEY J.). A Gentleman of France. Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Boane, Sieur de Marsac. First Edition. 3 vols. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1893 * Presentation copy, with inscriptions; " Robert Louis Steven- son, with the grateful admiration of the Author, 1S93." 703. WHITMAN (WALT). Leaves of Grass. 8vo, orig- inal green paper wrappers, uncut (loose, back missing, title slightly stained). Wash. 1871 * This Edition contains poems here first published. Steven- son's copy, with his autograph signature on title, in pencil; many marginal marks and underscorings of the verses most interesting to him; and several notes and comments on passages with which he agreed or disagreed. To Walt Whitman's writings Stevenson attributes the strong- est influences on his character and happiness. Of the "Leaves of Grass" he writes, in his paper on " Books which have Influ- enced Me " : ' 'I come next to Whitman's Leaves of Orass, a hook of singular service, a book which tumbled the world upside down for me, blew into space a thousand cobioebs of genteel and ethi- cal illusion, and having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again on a strong foundation of all the original and manly virtues." 704. WILSON (JAMES GRANT). Poets and Poetry of Scotland (1777-1876). Portraits. 8vo, cloth, uncut (loose in binding). Lond. 1877 * With Book-Plate of R. L. Stevenson. 705. WITHERSPOON (DR. JOHN). A Letter from a Blacksmith, to the Ministers and Elders of the Kirk of Scotland. 12mo, boards, calf back. Leith, 1766 *Thomas Stevenson's copy, with his signature on the fly-leaf, dated, 1864. 706. WODROW (REV. ROBERT). Analecta: or, Ma- terials for a History of Remarkable Providences ; mostly relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians. Vignettes on titles. Vols. 1, 2, 3 (pp. 1-256) and 4. 4 vols. 4to (covers missing). [Glasgow], 1842-3 * Marginal notes, in pencil, in R. L. Stevenson's handwrit- ing, in one of which he comments upon a reference; ''Why don't you give the printed page, fool ! I remember it." 707. WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. 8vo, half calf. N. Y. 1833 * With visiting card of R. L. Stevenson, and a few marginal markings. 105 708. WOOD (REV. J. G.). The Common Objects of The Sea Shore; including Hints for an Aquarium. Illus- trations. 16mo, leather, gilt edges. Lond. 1858 * Presented to Robert [Louis] Stevenson for Good Reading by the Henderson School, 1861. In the " Life " Balfour writes: "The only prize that ever fell to him was at Mr. Henderson's school for his reading," etc., etc. 709. WOODS (JAMES C). In Foreign Byeways. First Edition. 16mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1887 * Autograph Presentation Inscription by Alfred Nutt: "R. L. Stevenson, from Alfred Nutt — Xmas 1886." One of the earlier issues sent out in advance of the regular issue. 710. WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM). The Poetical Works of Wordsworth. 6 vols. 16mo, old half roan. Lond. 1858 * Stevenson's reading copy, with a number of pencil notes and marked passages. Under one of the Poems of the Imagm- ation he has written: " I don't believe there is a finer sonnet in the world. It is one gorgeous equable crescendo." Stevenson's visiting cards have been pasted in each volume. % To The Anderson Auction Company, 284 Madison Avenue, New York. Please buy for me at your Auction Sale No _..... on 19- the following lots at not exceeding the prices named, which are so much per Lot, These bids are made subject to the Conditions of Sale printed in the Catalogue of this sale. Name.. Address.. Shipping Directions.. 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We make no charge for executing orders for our customers and use all bids competitively, buying at the lowest price permitted by other bids. Material on Exhibition nine days before the sale. Priced copy of this Catalogue may be secured for SI. 50. Cl^e anDetjSon auction Company, Madison Avenue at Fortieth Street, New York. Telephone, Murray Hill 7680. PREFACE. 'T^HIS is the Catalogue of Part II of the Robert Louis -*- Stevenson Collection — once the property of the famous Novelist — which was inherited by Mrs. Isobel Strong of Santa Barbara, Calif., now Mrs. Salisbury Field, upon the death of her mother, Mrs. Stevenson, in February last. By permission of the California courts it was consigned by her for unre- stricted public sale. It is altogether the most important col- lection of Stevensoniana that has ever come on the market and undoubtedly it is the last large collection that will ever be offered. BOOKS: Al; 11 y of the bound volumes were inherited by Stevenson from his parents and grandparents ; others were purchased by him when he was at work on his novels, and still others were presented by the authors. Many of them contain notes and corrections by Stevenson and all have a strong asso- ciation interest. Among the more interesting books are these : The genuine first edition of the Edinburgh edition of poems by Burns ; some of the volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography, with Stevenson's notes; Trial of James Stewart, with inscription ; Whitman 's Passage to India, with markings ; Findlay's Directory of Navigation, which Stevenson used in the South Seas ; Montaigne 's Essays, with marginal notes and Stevenson's signature; the Waverley Novels, with Stevenson's signature on nine of the titles ; Hood 's Poems and the Life of John Knox, both with notes by the novelist ; and presentation copies of books by Robert Bridges, Sidney Colvin, Aubrey De Vere, Archibald Forbes, Richard Watson Gilder, Edmund Gosse, W. B. Henley, Richard Le Gallienne, William Sharp, and many others, including Alison Cunningham, Stevenson's devoted nurse to whom the Child's Garden of Verses was dedicated. Of Stevenson's works this part of the Collection contains many of interest, among them his own copy of the Inland Voyage, with notes and markings; the New Arabian Nights with notes, poems, and other autographic matter ; the first edi- tion of Father Damien; the privately printed edition of The South Seas, and twenty-six volumes of the Edinburgh Edition of Stevenson's Works — one of the four sets in uncut sheets on Japan paper, each volume containing a page with the printed inscription: "Robert Louis Stevenson His Book." These vol- umes will be sold separately. The books that do not have Stevenson's card, book-label, or a signature, contain a signed statement by Mrs. Stevenson's daughter that they were form- erly owned by him and were in his library at Vailima. AUTOGRAPHS : Among the letters by Stevenson in Part II of the Collection are several written from Vailima. A hundred cancelled checks with endorsements, the draft of a curious letter by Stevenson to his cousin, and signatures, scraps of correspondence, notes, and verses, will prove of interest to col- lectors. Catalogued with the books are some highly interest- ing autograph letters by Meredith which refer to Stevenson's literary work. Many original sketches by Stevenson in pencil, water-colors, and ink, including a Sketch Book of 80 pages, are catalogued, and also a large number of sheets of music in his autograph. CURIOS AND RELICS: Among the South Sea curios which Stevenson collected in his voyages are amulets, cups, bowls, shells, Tokalau buckets, rattles, head dresses, combs, necklaces of seeds, shells, hair, and teeth ; bracelets, braided human hair, fans, canes, some of which were cut by Stevenson, and tapa blankets. Among the personal Relics of the great novelist are some of the highest interest to collectors. For example, the small chest used by Stevenson in his South Sea travels, the six Colt rifles which he smuggled into his home for the pro- tection of his family, and his favorite spyglass, barometer, and compass. MANUSCRIPTS: These comprise the most important part of the Collection. Among the published or partly published manuscripts are the following: Early drafts of "A Mountain Town in France;" 13 pages of "The Young Chevalier;" notes on Stevenson's stay in Monterey; original drafts of "Reflections and Remarks on Human Life," 21 pages, and of "Robin and Ben, or the Pirate and the Apothecary;" complete IMS. of "The Waif Woman," 14 pages folio ; the first fourteen chapters of "St. Ives," 95 pages; Chapter XIX and part of Chapter XX of "The Wrecker," and 68 pages of "Weir of Hermiston," all but 8 in Stevenson s autograph. Among the unpublished material, in addition to scores of verses and poems, are several Note Books of the highest in- terest ; two drafts of a proposed story, ' ' The Uo-Between : A Boy's Romance;" "Law and Free Will: Notes on the Duke of Argyll," 20 pages; essay on "A Student's Meeting and Class Excursion;" a novel, "When the Devil Was Well," 35 pages ; an unfinished story, ' ' Mr. Baskerville and his Ward, ' ' 8 pages; "Hester Noble's Mistake," an uncompleted play; essay on "How Books Have -to be Written;" essays on "Pilate's Question," "Who Will Show Us any Good Thing," "Ethics of Crime," and "Morality;" two stories, "The En- chantress" and "The Story of a Recluse," in all 41 pages; unfinished story, ' ' The Squaw ]\Ian ; " an account of native life entitled "A Malaga in Samoa," 20 pages; and — one of the most important of all — 145 pages, entirely in Stevenson's handwriting, of Jiis first serious attempt at novel writing, "The Hair Trunk, or the Ideal Commonwealth: an Extrava- ganza," which he described in a letter written in 1877 as "a most absurd story of a lot of young Cambridge fellows who are going to found a new society." autograft) HettcrjS, #rtsinai ;|Wanu3Gfcript3tf, 25oofe^, anil J>outlj ^m Curioitf FliOM THE LIUUARY OP THE LATE CONSIGNED BY THK PHESBNT OWNBll a^rjS. ^aiijSfiurp f ielD OF SANTA BAHBARA, CALIF. PART II FIRST SESSION Monday Afternoon, January 25, 1915, at 2:30 o'clock. 1. ADAM (ALEX.). Classical Biography. 8vo, old calf (cracked). Edin. 1800 * Autograph Signature of Thomas Stevenson, father of Rob- ert Louis; also signature of E. Lothian with his Book-plate. 2. ADAM (ALEX.). Roman Antiquities. 8vo, calf (cracked). Edin. 1792 * Autograph Signature of Thomas Stevenson. 3. ANNUAL REGISTER, or a View of the History, Poli- ties, and Literature. For the Years 1792 to 1820 inclusive (vol. for the year 1813 missing) . Together 29 vols. 8vo, various bindings (some broken; and a few covers missing). Lond. 1799-1822 4. ANTONINUS. The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurel- ius Antoninus. 12mo, cloth. Lond. 1869 * With 10 lines of poetry, and marginal notes in pencil, in Stevenson 's handwriting. 5. ARISTOTLE'S Secret of Secrets Contracted. 18mo, old sheep (signature of John Blaekader on several pages). Printed in the Year 1719 6. ARNOLD (MATTHEW). Poems. 2 vols. 12mo, cloth, uncut (covers slightly loose). Lond. 1869 * With Book-plates of E. L. Stevenson, and marginal penoil- ings. 7. ARTICLES OF UNION, Agreed on the Two and tiventieth Day of July, in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Anne; The Act Ratifying and Approving the Treaty of Union, and also the Minutes of the Proceedings. Small folio, sewed (broken; title and 2 pp. torn). Lond. 1706 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY R. L STEVENSON. Throughout the descriptions of the autograph letters by Robert Louis Stevenson in this catalogue they are designated as "pub- lished" or "unpublished." These words should be understood to have the limited meaning that the letters appear or do not appear in the collection of Letters edited by Sidney Colvin. 8. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo. Brussels, Thursday [July] 26tli, 1872. * Addressed ' ' My dear Madame. ' ' Stevenson was travelling on the continent with his friend [Sir] Walter Simpson, and he writes of his French: "I made very heavy weather of it. The Frenchman had a very pretty young wife, but my [French] always deserted me entirely when I had to answer her, ' ' etc., 9. A. N. S., 1 p. 8vo. Paris, Nov. 7, 1873. Unpublished. * "In Paris all right. Bad passage," etc. Signed with ini tials. 10. A. L. S., 8 pp. 8vo. Nov. 13, 1873 [Hotel du Pavilion, Menton] . * Addressed ' ' Madame. ' ' Written the day after his ar- rival at Menton, whither he had gone for his health; giving an account of the place and his surroundings in the follow- ing characteristic sketch : ' ' The 'Place' is not where I thought. . . . I have found a charming room in the Hotel du Pavilion . . . with a superb view of Menton and the Hills, to which I move this afternoon. . . . I have run down my old friend and preceptor, who trained me up in the way that I should go so sedulously in former days"; after describing the place, he refers to the changes, as follows: "F. Bacon (Lord Chancellor) made the remark that ' Time was the great- est innovator' ; it is perhaps as meaningless a remark as was ever made; but as Bacon made it, I suppose it is better than any that I could make. Does it not seem as if things were fluid? They are displaced and altered in ten years so that one has difficulty, even with u, memory so very vivid and re- tentive for that sort of thing as mine, in identifying places where one lived a long while in the past and which one has kept piously in mind during all the interval . . . the people have still brown comely faces, . . . the invalids (eheu!) still sit on the promenade and trifle with their fingers in the fringes of shawls and wrappers; . . . For myself, I have come fa- mously through the journey, and as I have written this letter (for the first time for ever so long) with ease and even pleasure, I think my head must be better. . . . This 'is my birthday, by the way — 0, I said that before. Adieu." 11. A. L. Signed with initials. 3 pp. 18mo. [Monte Carlo], 30th Dec. [1873]. Unpublished. * Not addressed. Pasted to the letter is a small figure of a man cut from paper and outlined with ink. In a note signed ostensibly by "Sidney Colvin, Professor of Fine Arts," etc., it is guaranteed to be a work of art. 12. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo [Menton], March 6, 1874. Un- published. * Not addressed. Regarding two of his acquaintances. Alec Kass and a Mr. Bonfils. Of the former's intimacy he says: "He still seems a little in error as to the degree of our in- STEVENSON AUTOGRAPH 1,'ETT'E-RS— Continued. timacy, and a man who stands for a long time with his hand familiarly placed upon my shoulder, whose ' eyes fill with real tears' (as the play bills say J at the tale of my afflictions, and whom, after all and at the bottom of the matter, I do not Tcnow. . . . I have probably Icnown him in a previous slate of existence." Of the latter he says: "There is an interest- ing man here called Bonfils, who has made it his business to realize the stone-age, who malces all manner of stone-age implements and weapons with the aid of stone-age appliances alone," etc. 13. MANUSCRIPT DRAFT of a Letter to his cousin, Robert A. M. Stevenson, ly^ pp. 4to. Not dated or signed. Probably about 1875. * A curious document showing that the two cousins still de- lighted in playing at war maneuvres long after they had grown up.. On the reverse of the sheet is a list of chapter headings in pencil, headed : ' ' The Beacon Bell. ' ' 14. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo. Savile Club, 15, Savile Row. "W. [London] . October, 1874. Unpublished. * Not addressed: reading in part: "I am not intelligible, because I supply wit and humor to my correspondents and not intelligence: had you loolced at the date upon the paper you might perhaps have followed my witticism. ' ' 15. NOTE FROM BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE refusing a story by Stevenson, endorsed and signed with initials; a scrap of verse and prose by Stevenson; quotations from Shakespeare, 3 pp. 12mo, in Stevenson's autograph; and a list of books. Together 4 pieces. 16. FIVE SIGNATURES cut from letters. One signed in full, the others with initials only. 5 pieces. 17. FOUR SIGNATURES cut from letters, with scraps of correspondence attached, such as: "/ am in great glee to have the Hazlitt to attend to," "I keep wonderful. But this is a sad earth, and Davos a melancholy part of it," etc. All in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson. 4 pieces. 18. A. L. S., 1 p. 12mo, Edinburgh, n. d., to Edmund Gosse, writing of his illness and closing with 6 lines of verse. Pen-and-ink sketch at bottom of sheet. Unpublished. * ' ' And still to follow after hope And turn from care and slander. To write like Alexander Pope, To fight Kke Alexander." 19. FIVE PIECES cut from letters, two signed with his initials, the other three bearing the heading : "Davos Printing Office. Managed by Samuel Lloyd Osbouren & Co. The Chalet." One is dated Dec. 16, 1881. '5 pieces. 20. PORTION of a letter from his wife, on the back of which Stevenson has written "Row did she come to take to Dick? How did she know Dick would ie in town? Mind gone. B. L. S." 12mo. n. p., n. d. 7 STEVENSON AUT06EAPH LETTERS— Coitintted. 21. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, Bournemouth [1884], to Frede- rick Dolman, copy in Stevenson's autograph of the original letter, replying to a request for an interview on the Art of Fiction. 22. TWENTY CANCELLED CHECKS in the handwrit- iug of R. L. Stevenson [1887]. Made to the order of David Nutt, Sidney Colvin, Dr. Buckstone Brown, and others ; with their endorsements. 20 pieces. 23. Another lot of 20 pieces. 24. Another lot, drawn to the order of Robert A. M. Stevenson, and others. 18 pieces. 25. Another lot, drawn to the order of S. Lloyd Osbourne, and others, with their endorsements. 15 pieces. 26. Another lot, drawn to the order of Robert A. M. Stevenson, and others. 10 pieces. 27. Another lot, drawn to the order of Lloyd Osbourne, Robert A. M. Stevenson, and others. 15 pieces. 28. Another lot, drawn to order of Lloyd Osbourne, and others. 10 pieces. 29. Another lot, drawn to the order of Lloyd Osbourne, and others. 6 pieces. 30. A. L. Signed with initials. 4 pp. 8vo, with mourning border. [Saranac Lake, October 12, 1887.] Unpublished. * To his wife, whom he addresses as "My dearest little man;" reading in part: "/ have not said that I sent off my article today; I pray God it is good: Lloyd heard it, amd repeatedly laughed, iut he is so courteous, this may have ieen complimentary. I am beginning to count days till I hear from you." Mentions having received a long letter from Henry- James. 31. A. L. S., 4 pp. 12mo, Vailima, Samoa, April 27, 1891. To Mr. Mitchell, making disposition of certain sums of money. 32. A. D. S., 1 p. 8vo, Vailima, July 31, 1891. Receipt in settlement of an account with Arthur King, signed by both. 33. A. L. S., 1 p. folio. Vailima, Nov. 28, 1891. To the Editor of the New York "World," refuting a letter, pub- lished in the "World," purporting to describe a visit to Stevenson, and making statements of his sentiments in regard to Samoan affairs, which Stevenson brands as false. Not pub- lished in the collected letters. Draft of the letter sent. * He says in part : ' ' Whether or not Mr. Jones (the author of the letter in question) is to he considered a man of his word, is a point of no general interest. But the future of a country; even a small one, is of more moment; and it may, in critical times, he affected by the sayings and doings even of such persons as myself and Mr. Jones. ' He has put into my mouth sentiments on the political situation in Samoa, whicii may he his own, hut which are not and never have heen mine . . and in many cases I can have said nothing — he- cause I have never thought anything, even analogous." 8 STEVENSON AtJTOGEAPH LETTEES— Coniinited. 34. A. L. S., and A. L. Together 6 pp. 8vo, Oct. 18, 1892. To T. B. Cusack Smith, British Consul at Apia. An informal letter accompanied by a formal one on the subject ■of customs and taxes. The latter unsigned, both being copies retained by Stevenson. 2 pieces. Unpublished. * Stevenson indignantly protests against the government tak- ing advantage of the ignorant Samoans by taxation. 35. A. L. S., 1 p. folio. [Vailima], May 22, 1893. Draft •of a political letter to Cusack-Smith, British Consul. Written upon his hearing that Smith was complaining of advice given by Stevenson to the Samoan chief Mataafa. 36. AUTOGRAPH RECORD of Letters received and sent during part of the Year 1893. 7 pages, folio. * Among the interesting items are: "Letters sent Deo. 6th [189S] J. M. Barrie, inviting him. . . S. S. McClure, con- clude pro tern the D. B. business. . Clement Shorter, acknowledge gift of Browne's pictures; inquire as to date and terms for short story. . . . W. B. Hole, illustrations to Wrecker and D. B. — Sidney Colvin; inclose [manuscript] Isle of Voices and Waif Woman, ' ' etc. These notes are particularly interesting, as they show Stev- enson's activities, both social and literary, at the time of his greatest prominence. 87. A. L. S., 1 p. dto. n. d. To the Editor of the "Times." Draft. * Confirming the report of the purchase of the Samoan ' ' Times ' ' by the Samoan Government, in order, as he says, "to mus:sle the voice of puMio complaint." 38. A. L. S., 4 pp. 12mo, Vailima, March 19, 1894. To Mrs. Schmidt, wife of Herr Schmidt, president, concerning Titles for protection in case of an attack on his house at Vailima. * There was a possibility of Stevenson 's home being at- tacked during the troubles between the rebellious and the royalist natives, and as he states, ' ' The treaty fails to protect me, it forlids me to protect myself, and as a property holder in Samoa, I must take the readiest means to home the treaty amended." Stevenson finally got his rifles, as will be seen elsewhere in the collection. 39. BACON (SIR FRANCIS). The Essays, or Councils, Civil and Moral. With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil, etc. 8vo, old calf (broken). Lond. 1706 * With inscription: "To Dear Tom, in remembrance of my dear Hushand, May SB, ]850." The front fly-leaf is covered with notes. 40. BALFOUR (LEWIS). The Heavenly Home: a Sermon .... May 6, 1860, by Rev. John Paul, on the Occasion of the Death of the Rev. Lewis Balfour [Grandfather of R. L. :Stevenson]. 8vo, original wrappers. Bdin. 1860 * Only a limited number printed for private circulation. 9 41. BANNISTER (S.). William Paterson, The Merchant Statesman, and Founder of the Bank of England: His Life and Trials. Facsimiles. 16mo, cloth, uncut. n. p., 1858 42. BARCLAY (ROBERT). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, as the same is Held Forth, and Preached, by the People called, in Scorn, Quakers. 8vo, calf (back a little worn at top). Lond. 1736 * With Book-plate of K. L. Stevenson. 43. BAYLE (PETER). The Dictionary; Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle. To which is prefixed, The Life of the Author, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged, by Mr. Des Maizeaux. 5 vols, folio, old calf (backs a little worn and few pp. worm-eaten). Lond. 1734-38 44. BBRNIERA (DR. JOHANNE ANGBLO). Oratio De Utilitate Unionis Britannicse & Gloria. 20 pp. small 4to, sewed. Lond. 1707 45. BEWICK ILLUSTRATIONS. The Looking-Glass for the Mind; or intellectual Mirror .... Translated from that much admired work L'Ami des Enfans. With 74 cuts, de- signed and engraved on ivood by I. Bewick. Small 8vo, old sheep. Lond. 1827 * Thomas Stevenson 's copy, with his signature on the fly- leaf, dated 1856. 46. BIBLIA cum concordantiis veteris et novi Testamenti. Woodcut on title. Thick small folio, old leather. (With im- perfections; sold not returnable.) Hain, 3122. Strassburg: [Johann Griininger], 1497 47. BIBLIA sacra latina vulgatte' editionis. Engraved title. 8vo, old calf (broken). Autograph of Thomas Stevenson. Antuerpise: ex officina Plantiniana, 1628 48. BIBLE. Biblia Sacra sive Testamentum vetus ab Im. Tremellio, etc. Engraved title. 12mo, calf (broken, text waterstained). Lond. 1656 * With inscription by Stevenson 's father : ' ' Thomas Stevin son, Ediniurgh, 1836" ; and a few notes in pencil. 49. BIBLE. The Holy Bible; containing the Old and New Testaments. 2 vols. 8vo, old red morocco, gilt. Lond. 1772 * With autograph signatures of Stevenson's grandmother: ' ' Mrs. Balfour, Pilrig. ' ' 50. BIBLE. Apocrypha. 8vo, old calf (badly worn and broken). [Cambridge, 1798] * Presentation Copy by W. Swan to T. Stevenson, father of E. L. Stevenson; with notes on fly-leaf. 51. BIBLE. A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scrip- tures of the Old and New Testament; or, A Dictionary and Alphabetical Index to the Bible, to which is added A Concord- ance to the Books Called Apocrypha. By Alexander Cruden. 4to, calf (covers loose). Edin. 1804 * Signature of Lewis Balfour inside the cover. 10 52. BIBLE. The Holy Bible (with) The Psalms qf David. 18mo, roan. Edin. 1856 * E. L. Stevenson 's own copy, with the following inscrip- tion: "To Mr. B. L. B. Stevenson, from P. C, September 1864." 53. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the Original Tongues, by His Majesty's Special Command. 12mo, black morocco, gilt edges. Glasgow, 1867 * With the autograph of Thomas Stevenson on the fly-leaf. 51. BIBLE. The English Version of the Polyglott Bible; containing the Old and New Testaments. 16mo, morocco, gilt edges, covered with leather. Lond., n. d. * Formerly the property of Stevenson 's mother, and bears the inscription on fly-leaf: "Margaret Isabella Stevenson, Edinburgh, 28 August, 1848." 55. BIBLE. 16mo, calf (lacks title-page). n. p., n. d. * With autograph signature of Thomas Stevenson, father of R. L. Stevenson, and notes at end in his handwriting. 56. BIBLE. The Comprehensive Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. One vol. in 8 parts, 4to, cloth. Lond. : S. Bagster, n. d. 57. BOHN'S LIBRARY. History of Prose Fiction. By John C. Dunlop. A New Edition Revised with Notes, Appen- dices, and Index, by Henry Wilson. 2 vols. 12mo, cloth (1 hinge slightly broken). Lond. 1888 68. BOHN'S LIBRARY. The Anabasis; or. Expedition of Cyrus. Translated from the Greek of Xenophon; and Xenophon's Minor Works. By Rev. J. S. Watson; The Epi- grams of Martial (Harper's Library) ; The Tragedies of Sophocles. 4 vols. 12mo, cloth (some covers slightly marred by nail) . N. Y. and Lond. 1879-86 59. BOHN'S LIBRARY. The History of the Popes. By Leopold Ranke. Portraits. 3 vols. 12mo, cloth (1 vol. shaken and worn). Lond. 1847-8 * With Book-plates of R. L. Stevenson and signature of Lewis Balfour, Liverpool, 1st Nov., 1847. 60. BOOK OF PSALMS. The Book of Psalms. Trans- lated by Rev. T. K. Cheyne. 16mo, boards, gilt top, uncut (binding soiled). Lond. 1884 * With Book-plate of R. L. Stevenson. 61. BOYLE (ROBERT). Hydrostatical Paradoxes, Made out by New. Experiments (for the most part Physical and Easie). Folding plates. 16mo, calf (1 cover missing). Oxford, 1666 62. BRIDGES (ROBERT). Overheard in Arcady. First Edition. 12mo, cloth. N. Y. 1894 * Inscribed: "To Robert Louis Stevenson, with admiration for his work from Eohert Bridges, New YorTc, April, 1894." 11 63. BRITISH POETS. Comprises: James Thomson; Alexander Pope, 3 vols. ; John Cunningham ; Will. Shenstone ; John Milton, 2 vols.; Dr. The. Parnell; Mark Akenside; David Mallet; Rev. Dr. E. Young, 2 vols.; John Dryden, 3 vols.; Nicholas Rowe; Sir R. Blaekmore; J. Langhorne; John Pomfret; Thomas Tiekell; Sir Sam. Garth; Elijah Fenton; Edmund Waller; Edward Moore; Thomas Warton; Isaac Watts and Richard Savage. Cooke's Edition. Plates. 28 vols. 16mo, half calf, original bindings. Lond., n. d. * With autograph signature of Rev. Lewis Balfour, grand- father of E. L. Stevenson, in 2 vols., and Book-plates of R. L. S. in all but 2 vols. 64. BROWNING (ROBERT). Pifine at the Pair, and Other Poems. First American Edition. 12mo, cloth (worn and somewhat foxed). Bost. 1872 65. BRUCE (MICHAEL). Poems, on Several Occasions. 16mo, calf. Edin. 1796 66. [BUCHANAN (G.).] De Maria Scotorum regina, totaque euis contra regem conjuratione, foedo cum Bothwelio adulterio nefaria in maritum crudelitate et rabie. First Edi- tion. 8vo, calf. (Imperfect, sold not returnable.) [London: J. Daye, 1571?] * Very scarce. With autograph of Thomas Stevenson, dated 1836. 67. BUCHANANUS (GEORGUS). Buripidis. TragcedisB duffl, Medea et Alcestis, Edinburgh, 1722; Epistolse, Lond. 1711. 2 vols. 16mo, sheep (broken). Lond. and Edinburgh, 1711-1722 68. BUCHON (J. A. C). Choix de Chroniques et Memoires sur I'Histoire de Prance. Royal 8vo, half roan (cracked and foxed). Paris, 1838 * With marginal pencilings. 69. BUNYAN (JOHN). The Pilgrim's Progress. With a Life of the Author by Robert Southey. Portrait and illustra- tions. 8vo, cloth (broken and shaken). Lond. 1839 * With autograph signatures of Rev. Lewis Balfour, grand- father of E. L. Stevenson, in 3 places. 70. BUNYAN (JOHN). The Pilgrim's Progress. Fac- simile reproduction of the First Edition. 12mo, cloth. * With marginal pencilings. Lond. 1875 71. BURNS (ROBERT). Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. 8vo, half calf (binding broken and portrait missing, otherwise a good sound copy with wide margins and the half- title) . Edin. : Printed for the Author, 1787 * First Edinburgh Edition. Several editions were issued in Edinburgh in 1787. This is the genuine First Issue, with the Duke of Roxburgh's name spelled "Boxburgh, " in the List of Subscribers; also the misprints "stinking" and "hag- 15! gis" on page 263. This edition contains 27 pieces printed for the firt time, and is very rare. With autograph signature of Thomas Stevenson, and marginal notes on one page in his handwriting. 72. BURNS (ROBERT). The Works of Burns. With an Account of his Life. Portrait. 4 vols. 8vo, calf (bindings broken, text soiled). Lond. 1806 * With marginal pencilings on few leaves. 73. BUTLER (SAMUEL). The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, From The Texts of Dr. Grey and Mr. Thyer, with The Life of the Author. By Dr. Johnson. Portrait and plates. 2 vols, in one, 16mo, calf (broken and 1 cover loose). Lond., n. d. * With autograph signature of Thomas Stevenson. 74. BYROX (LORD). The Select Works. ISmo, cloth, uncut (slight stain on few margins). Halifax, 1840 * With signature of Miss M. Balfour, the mother of B. L. Stevenson, and marginal notes in pencil and ink on 6 pages, by Thomas Stevenson. 75. CALDERWOOD (MRS.). Letters and Journals of Mrs. Calderwood of Polton, from England, Holland and the Low Countries in 1756. Edited by Alex. Fergusson. Vignette etching on title. 8vo, cloth, uncut (binding soiled). Edin. 1884 * With the ' ' Skerryvore ' ' Book-plate of Stevenson. 76. CALIFORNIA : A History of Upper and Lower Cali- fornia (Forbes), Lond. 1839; The Yellowplush Papers (Thackeray), Phila., n. d. ; Great Expectations (Dickens), Lond., n. d.; three others, and a loose cover and title page of The Bell Rock Light-House. 7 pieces, various sizes and bindings. * Signature of Thomas Stevenson on a loose fly-leaf. 77. CAMPBELL (JOHN). Travels in South Africa. Map. portrait and plates. 8vo, boards, uncut (covers and few pp. loose). Lond. 1815 78. [CAMPBELL (J. L.).] Poenamo; Sketches of the Early Days of New Zealand. Portrait and map. Small 8vo, cloth. Lond. 1881 * Autograph presentation inscription — "E. L. Stevenson, Esq., with the author's regards — J. L. C." 79. CANDID and Impartial Discussion of the False Reason- ings, Gross :\Iisrepresentations, and Studied Fallacies of Two late Pieces; The Former written to vilify the Inhabitants of One End of This Island : And the Latter of the Other. By "a Friend of Great Britain." 8vo, sewed. Lond. 1747 80. CANTERBURY (GEORGE, ARCHBISHOP OF). A Brief Description of the Whole World. 16mo, calf. Lond. 1635 * Autograph signature of Thomas Stevenson, with marginal notes in his handwriting.- 13. 81. CAREW (BAMPPYLDB-MOORE). The Life and Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called The King of the Beggars. And a Dictionary of the Cant Language used by The Mendicants. Frontispiece. 12mo, sheep, re- backed (margins of some pp. stained and binding worn). Derby, n. d. 82. CATALOGUE of The Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. 6 vols. 4to, cloth and labels (backs of some vols, a little torn). Edin. 1867-78 * Witli notes at end of each vol. in Stevenson 's handwriting. 83. CHAP BOOKS. A Visit to the Zoological Gardens; Beauty and the Beast; The Life of George Barnwell; Jack -and the Bean Stalk ; Diamonds and Toads ; Old Mother Goose ; Goody Two Shoes; Riquet with the Tuft; Puss in Boots. Woodcuts, several colored hy Stevenson in his childhood days. 9 pamphlets in one vol. 18mo, boards (worn, comer torn). Manchester: Printed by J. Wrigley, n. d. 84. CHRISTINA (LEONORA). Memoirs of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV of Denmark. Written -during her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen, 1663-1685. Translated by F. E. Bunnett. Portrait. 8vo, cloth (stamp on title, loose in covers). Lend. 1872 * With Stevenson 's Book-plate. 85. CICERO. M. TuUii Cieeronis, Cato Major sive de Senecutute, etc. Recensuit G. Long. 16mo, cloth. Cambridge, 1860 * On page 15 is a pencil note on the margin, probably in the handwriting of Stevenson. 86. CLOUD of Witnesses (A), For the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ: or, the Last Speeches and Testimonies of those who have Suffered for the Truth in Scotland, Since the Year 1680. 8vo, sheep (cracked). Edin. 1765 * With autograph signature of Thomas Stevenson. 87. COBBETT (WILLIAM). Rural Rides in the Coun- ties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, etc., 1821-32. Portrait. 12mo, ■cloth (binding worn). Lond. 1853 * With visiting card of R L. Stevenson, and marginal pen- eilings. 88. COLQUHOUN (P.). A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis; containing a detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors .... and Suggesting Remedies for their Pre- vention. 8vo, half calf (rubbed, name cut from title). * R. L. Stevenson 's copy, with his book label. Lond. 1800 89. COLVIN (SIDNEY). Children in Italian and Eng- lish Design. Photographic illustrations ■after Delia Boihia, Antonio, Correggio, Blake, Stothard and Flaxman. Small -4to, cloth (loose in covers) . Lond. 1872 * Author's autograph presentation inscription — "Bobert Louis Stevenson, from Sidney Colvin — March, 1874." With visiting card of E. L. Stevenson. 14 90. CONTRAST (The) : or, Scotland as it was in the Year 1745, and Scotland in the Year 1819. 12ino, boards, uncut (broken). Lond. 1825 * Some passages marked and one pencil note by Stevenson. Autograph of Eobert Thomson on title. 91. COWPER (WILLIAM). The Poetical Works of Cowper. Portrait and illustrations. 12mo, cloth, gilt. * With visiting card of B. L. Stevenson. Lond., n. d. 92. CRABB (GEORGE).. English Synonymes Explained, In Alphabetical Order; with Copious Illustrations and Ex- amples Drawn from the Best Writers. 8vo, half cloth, uncut (worn). Lond. 1829 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S CURIOS. The exchanging of gifts has a very prominent place in Polynesian etiquette. At every meeting of a ceremonious nature gifts are given and received, and although the visitor may see little use or value in what he receives, the gift some- times represents the most precious possession of the giver. In his travels, Stevenson carried no goods for trade purposes and bought very little from the natives, but he received from the various native rulers many gifts of ceremony and tokens of affection, and of such the present collection of Island handi- craft is principally made up. In his book on the South Seas he tells how he had received as gifts objects he desired, after having tried in vain to buy them. 93. HEAD band made of fan-shaped shells, mostly white. 152 strung in 3 rows and attached to linen band. Length 26 inches (a few shells missing). 94. ORNAMENTAL HEAD-DRESS. Samoan. Made of three reeds, covered with Tapa Cloth. Fastened together and decorated with feathers and two circular disks made from mother-of-pearl, diameter 21/2 and 31/2 inches, respectively. Length of center reed, 24 inch. 95. GILBERT ISLAND COMB. 19 reeds held together with twine of native manufacture. Length, 12 inch. 96. The same. 28 reeds. Length, I31/2 inch. 97. The same. 17 reeds. Length, III/2 inch. 98. The same. 18 reeds. Length, 21 inch. 99. The same. 21 reeds. Length, 18 inch. 100. NECKLACE. Made of dark brown human hair, woven together with plaited grass. Width 2 in., length 20 in. * Worn by natives of the Marquesas Islands. 101. Another. Length 26 in. 102. Another. Length 24 in. 15 STEA'ENSON CJjmOS— Continued. 103. NECKLACE. Composed of about 160 teeth of the- flying fox, on a silk thread. Length 15 inches. 104. NECKLACE of painted and varnished pandanus seed set off with green and purple fibre. Worn on ceremonial occasions. 105. Another, longer than the preceding, but without the purple fibre. 106. Another, broken apart. 107. NECKLACE. Made of small dark brown seeds. About 1100 strung on thread in 7 strands. Length 28 inches. 108. NECKLACE. Made of small circular red seeds, and white and blue seeds called "Job's tears." 182 strung on thread. Length 25 inches. 109. NECKLACE. Golden Shell Necklace made of minia- ture yellow shells. About 1800, in 3 strands, twisted. Length 54 inches. 110. NECKLACE. Made of white miniature horn-shaped shells. About 400 strung on grass thread. Length 33 inches. 111. NECKLACE. Made of miniature conch-shaped shells of various colors. 189 on grass string. Length 38 inches. 112. NECKLACE. Made of small round red seeds. 200 on string. Length 51 inches. 113. NECKLACE. Made of white conch-shaped shells. 104 in a double row attached to woven grass. Length 31 inches. 114. NECKLACE. Made of small circular seeds. 148 on string. Length 36 inches. 115. NECKLACE. Made of small circular red seeds, 110 on string. Length 27 inches. 116. NECKLACE. Made of human teeth. 69 strung on plaited grass. Length 30 inches. * Worn by natives of the South Seas. 117. NECKLACE. Made of white miniature conch-shaped shells. 360 in a double row, strung on plaited grass. Length 28 inches. 118. NECKLACE. Golden Shell Necklace. Made of miniature yellow shells, separated in places by small conch- shaped shells. About 880 on thread. Length 84 inches. 119. NECKLACE. Golden Shell Necklace. Made of miniature yellow shells separated by small conch-shaped shells every 4 or 5 inches. About 900 on thread. Length 90 inches. 120. NECKLACE. Golden Shell Necklace. Made of miniature yellow shells. About 450 on string. Length 38 inches. 16 STE^'ENSON G'O'RIOS— Continued. 121. NECKLACE. Made of pink, tooth-shaped shells. 30 strung on plaited grass. Length 19 inches. 122. NECKLACE of Cowry shells. 53 strung in a double row and attached to a red ribbon. Length 21% inches. 123. NECKLACE of miniature conch-shaped shells of vari- ous colors. 113 strung on string. Length 21 inches. 124. BRACELET. Shell with the center ground out to form a bracelet, and elaborately carved. Diameter 3I/2 inches. 125. BRACELETS. 3 bracelets made of white disk-shaped shells. 109 pieces attached to plaited grass. Length 18 inches. 3 pieces. 126. BRACELETS. Pair of bracelets made of boars' tusks, wrapped with plaited grass. Diameter 3i/^ inches. Length 9 inches. 2 pieces. 127. BRACELET of shell with center ground out to form a bracelet. Diameter 4 inches. 128. BRACELETS. 2 bracelets made of bone, with corru- gated ornaments. % and % inches wide. Diameter 3 inches. 2 pieces. 129. DANCER'S ORNAMENTAL Girdle worn by a young girl at the ceremonies on the occasion of Stevenson's last birthday. Made of vari-colored fibre. 130. HUMAN HAIR. About 35 feet of braided human hair, about % ii^ch thick. 131. FAN. Large fan of woven grass with colored borders, fastened to the wood handle with human hair. 28 inches long. 132. PAN. Large fan of woven grass with openwork bor- ders. Handle carved in the shape of a horse 's hoof, to which • the fan is fastened with human hair. 37 inches long. 133. FAN. Woven grass fan with colored border, fastened to the wooden handle with human hair. 28 inches in height. Samoan. 134. FANS. 4 fans of native workmanship with openwork or colored borders and wooden handles. 4 interesting speci- mens. 135. FAN. Woven grass fan of oval shape, with brown borders and ebony handle. Length I6I/2 inches. 136. FAN. Samoan fan of woven grass, with a border of red and black. Fastened to the wooden handle with human hair. 21 inches in height. 137. PAN. Samoan fan of peculiar openwork construc- tion. Made of bamboo and bound to the handle with human hair. Height 19 inches. 17 STEVENSON CVIRIOS— Continued. 138. CANE made from Sea Weed from Low Island. Heavy knob at the end. 35 inches long. 139. SOUTH SEA ISLAND CANES. Natural wood, made by Stevenson in his various travels among the islands. Length, about 30 inch. 3 pieces. 140. CANE. Dark wood cane ornamented with figures of two snakes in relief, with symbolic handle. 37 inches long. 141. CANE used by Stevenson in Sydney, Australia. Na- tural wood, curved handle. Length, 34 inch. 142. CANE with polished globular colored stone knob. Given to Stevenson by Mrs. Anne Proctor. Length, 38 inch. 143. SOUTH SEA ISLAND CANES. Made from various kinds of South Sea wood. Two polished. Length, about 38 inch. 4 pieces. 144. CANES. Two East Indian canes, probably of cedar wood, unpolished. 36 and 37 inches long. 145. RELIC OF THE FIRE OF THE "JANET NICOLL. " Portion of Cane given to Stevenson by Ben Hurd ; being the upper half, with silver mount. 146. TAPA CLOTH BLANKET. Samoan Turban. White, decorated with circular spots and leaf formations. Size 26 inch by 12 ft. 6 inch. * Used by the natives of the Samoan Islands as a head covering. 147. TAPA CLOTH BLANKET. Pure white, of a light fibre used to ^vrap around infants. Size about 3 by 7 feet. 148. TAPA CLOTH BLANKET. Tahiti, Society Islands. Light brown, with an elaborate circular design and floral spray. Size 9 by 6i/^ feet. * Fine giece. 149. TAPA CLOTH BLANKET. Samoan Islands. Light" brown, with elaborate design in black, consisting of 20 rect- angles with variegated pattern, floral spray, with checkered borders. Size 6 ft. 2 inch, by 7 ft. * This piece was in the fire which occurred on board the steamer "Janet Nicoll, " soon after leaving Sydney; three holes were burned in it. 150. TAPA CLOTH BLANKET. Samoan Islands. Wom- an's Dress. Brown, closely covered with a dark brown fern leaf design and checkered pattern in black. Sizz 6 ft. 10 inch, by 5 ft. 6 inch. 151. TAPA CLOTH. Samoan Islands. Creamy white, unpainted, but with a slight brownish outline. Size 18 inch, by 15 ft. 8 inch. 152. The same. Another piece. 17 inch, by 18 ft. 7 inch. ; also a small piece, 17 inch, by 3 ft. 10 inch. 2 pieces. 18 STEVENSON CVBIOS— Continued. 153. TAPA CLOTH. 5 pieces. Various sizes. 154. TAPA COLORING. Red earth used in the coloring of tapa cloth. 2 pieces. 155. TAPA COLORING. Pad containing- a yellowish clay, used for coloring Tapa Cloth. 156. TAPA CLOTH DIE, made of bark, used for stamping Tapa Cloth. Size 17 by 36 inch. 157. The same. Another. Size 19 by 4A. inch. 158. TAPA CLOTH BRUSHES. Samoan Islands. Used for painting Tapa Cloth Blankets. 2 pieces. 159. FINE SOUTH SEA ISLAND GRASS MAT. Con- ventional border design. Size 6 ft. 9 inches by 6 ft. * Beautiful piece. 160. GRASS MATTING. Samoan Islands. Child's Mat, with fringe. Size 2 ft. 9 inches by 4 ft. 5 inches. 161. HAWAIIAN GRASS MATTING. Very heavy : with colored stripes woven on surface. Size 5 ft. 10 inches by 8 ft. 8 inches (one corner slightly torn, otherwise a fine piece). 162. FIBRE for mat-making; from Samoa. 1 bunch. About % pound. 163. PANDANUS TREE FIBRE. A bundle of this fibre, used by the natives as string and binding material: with a roll of the same material, braided and bleached by Mrs. Stevenson. 2 pieces. 164. AMULET. Made of shell in flat circular shape. Diameter 2^ inches. 165. TOTEM of carved bone, with a plain handle. The upper part reticulated and composed of four grotesque fig- ures. Origin unknown: height about 8 inches. 166. COCOANUT WATER CARRIERS, made from the shell of the cocoanut, with fibre network and handles. 2 pieces. 167. CUPS. Cocoanut cup and one made from a gourd, used in the Samoan Islands for water and kava. 2 pieces. 168. DRINKING CUP formed of half of a gourd, with a quaint design of birds carved on the surface by a native artist. Used for drinking kava. 169. COCOANUT SHELL with elaborate carving by a native artist. Fine specimen, with designs covering the entire shell. Probably used as a drinking cup. 170. DWARF COCOANUT ; a small cup made from a dwarf cocoanut ; and a miniature paddle. 3 pieces. 19 STEVENSON CVRIOS—Continued. 171. LARGE SPOON or laJdle, the bowl made of half a coeoanut shell, fastened to a wooden handle with hair. Prom the Marquesas Islands. 172. MEDICINE SPOON made for R. L. Stevenson by a native chief. Composed of tortoise shell ; 5 inches long. 173. MARQUESAS ISLANDS. Wooden bowl used at can- nibal feasts. Depth 4 inches, diameter lli/^ inches. 174. CANNIBAL FEEDING STICKS, used by the natives of the Marquesas Islands in their Cannibal Feasts. Consist- ing of 2 sticks, one spear shaped and the other canoe shaped, made of native wood. Length, 151^ inches. 175. POLE. A Long pole of very hard and highly polished native wood. Probably a staff of office among the natives. Length 64^/^ inches. 176. SPEAKING MAN'S STAFF OF OFFICE. A long stick of native wood inlaid with pieces of bone. 47 inches long. 177. SAMOAN CANOE PADDLE. Length 4 ft. 6 inch. 178. TOKALAU BUCKET, with Cover. Made of one piece of tree trunk. Cover fastened on with a string of native manufacture. Height, 15 inch., diameter 14"5/2' inch. Stamped on cover, "S. S., Sept. 23, '98." * Tokelau is the name of group of islands in the South Seas. This and the following lot were bought by Mrs. Steven- son when she was on a cruise in the "Janet Nicoll with her husband, the date on cover having been put on at a later time. 179. Another. Height 18 inch., diameter 17 inch. With cover, attached with native string; stamped, same as above. 180. STONE IMPLEMENT for the making of canoes. Native stone gouge with a sharp edge, 10 inches in length. 181. STONE PESTLE used for pounding poi and grain. Finely modelled implement of granite such as is used in the South Seas. 7 inches in height. 182. SANDAL-WOOD. A lump of sandal-wood from the Marquesas Islands. Height 4 inches, diameter 3% inches. * Given to Stevenson by Poni, a young native and expert wood-carver. 183. CARVED ORNAMENT in the shape of a human arm. Elaborately carved by a native Island workman. About 30 inches in length (fingers repaired). 184. WOODEN IMAGE of Native workmanship, partly carved and partly natural ; about 27 inches in height. SO STEVENSON GVBI08— Continued. 185. STONE SPECIMENS. 3 pieqes of flint-like stone used by natives for weapons, tools, etc. ; small round stone from the seashore with a shell grown to it, and a piece of lava with a label written by R. L. Stevenson, "Lava, Kilauea, 1888." Together 5 pieces. 186. BRAIDED HANDBAG, with Handle, checkered de- sign in colors. South Sea Island grass. Size 91/2 by 16 inch. 187. RATTLE of dried nut shells fastened together with fibre. Used in ceremonial dances. 188. ■ Another, similar. 189. ORNAMENTS of shells fastened to a stick of wood to mount on the prow of a canoe. 2 pieces. 190. NUTCRACKER of Island workmanship, rather crudely fashioned of wood. 7 inches long, made for Ah Pu (Stevenson's Chinese cook) in Apemama, Gilbert Islands. 191. TEETH from a shark caught while the Stevenson family were on the ' ' Equator" trip in the South Seas. 3 pieces. 192. DOUGH CUTTER of native workmanship, made for Mrs. R. L. Stevenson in the South Seas. Made of bone with inlays of wood (roller broken). 193. CORAL. Pieces of red coral collected by the Stevenson family in the South Seas. 7 pieces. 194. SHELLS. Cats-Eyes. Collected by Stevenson on his South Sea Island Cruise. 20 pieces. 195. MOTHER-OF-PEARL SHELLS. South Sea Islands. Diameter, about 5 inch. 3 pieces. 196. The same. Another lot. About 6V2 inch. diameter. 3 pieces. 197. The same. Another lot. 6 and 61/2 inch, diameter. 2 pieces. 198. The same. Diameter 7 by 8 inch. Fine piece. 199. MISCELLANEOUS LOT OF SOUVENIRS OP STEVENSON, mainly from the South Seas. A goose quill, a row of 12 shark's teeth, claw of wild animal, wooden ring cut for R. L. S., a wooden implement, silk handkerchief with embroided initial "S," sleigh bell used at Saranac, a bone domino, and a peculiar object looking like a tooth. Together 9 pieces. 200. FRAGMENT of wood cut from Captain Cook's tree by R. L. Stevenson. The small jar (broken), containing it bears an inscription to that effect in the handwriting of Mrs. Strong. 201. SHELLS from the South Seas. Pour very fine speci- mens of the larger shells gathered by the Stevensons ; each of a different variety. 4 pieces. STEVENSON GVmOS—Continued. 202. SHELLS from the South Seas. 20 specimens of vari- ous shapes and sizes, an interesting collection gathered by the Stevenson family in their travels. 203. SEA MOSS. South Sea Islands. 204. EBONY. Small branch of Ebony wood. 205. TRICK BOX made for Stevenson by a sailor in H. M. S. Curacao, fii/^ x ly^ x 11/2 inches (catch repaired) . 206. PETRIFIED WOOD from a California Forest. Length, 6% inch. * Collected by Stevenson during his honeymoon days (1879), when he visited a petrified forest in California, during his stay at the miner 's camp at Silverado. 207. OSTRICH EGGS. Two dark green ostrich eggs (one broken at the end) . 208. TWO CALIFORNIA RATTLESNAKE SKINS of grayish brown shade running to a light yellow on the under- body, with light diamond shaped markings. Each four feet long. 209. CHEST used by Stevenson in his South Sea Voyages. Size 22 X 10^ x 7 inches outside measurement, with two handles and lock; made of white cedar, brass joints and hinges. 210. ABBLONE SHELLS. Pair of iridescent shells, oval shaped. Width 5% in., depth li/^ in., length 7 in. 2 pieces. * Souvenirs of the Stevensons; from Monterey, California. 211. WOODEN FORCEPS. Two pairs of wooden forceps. Each cut from a solid piece of Avood. Made by a man in Calis- toga, California, for R. L. S. (one broken). * Eemarkable pieces of carving. 212. PAPER CUTTER. A wooden paper cutter, with handle carved as tree stump surmounted by an owl with glass eyes. Length lO^i inches. 213. DALE (PHILIP) and HAVILAND (CYRIL). Voices from Australia. First Edition. 12mo, cloth. Lond. 1892 * Autograph inscription on title — ' ' JR. L. Stevenson, Esq., Samoa, with the compliments of the Authors. — Sydney, 214. [DALRYMPLB (SIR DAVID, LORD HAILES).] Remains of Christian Antiquity. Small 8vo, sheep (cracked at hinge) . Edin. 1778 *"With autograph signature of Eev. Lewis Balfour. 23 215. DARIEN PAPERS (THE). Being a Selection of Original Letters and Official Documents relating to the Estab- lishment of a Colony at Darien by the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 1695-1700. [Uap and fac- simile. 4to, cloth, uncut. Edin. 1849 * A number of Stevensons are mentioned in the text and index, and these have been underscored in ink. 216. DARWIN (CHARLES). The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin. Including an Autobiographical Chapter. Edited by his son Francis Darwin. Portraits and illustra- tions. 2 vols. 12mo, cloth. ]sj. y. 1888 * With marginal peneilings. 217. DAVY (SIR HUMPHRY). Memoirs of The Life of Sir Humphry Davy. By his brother, John Davy. Portrait and plate. 2 vols. 8vo, boards, uncut (1 back missing and 1 loose). Lond. 1836 218. DESPARD (COL.). State Trials at Large. The Whole Proceedings on the Trials of Col. Despard, and the other State Prisoners, Before a Special Commission at the New Sessions House, Horsemonger Lane, Southwark, Feb. 7 and 9, 1803 (with) Original and Authentic Memoirs of Col. Despard. 8vo, half calf. Lond. [1803] 219. DE VERE (STEPHEN E.). Translations from Horace and a Few other Poems. With Latin text. Small 4to, cloth, uncut (binding and some morgins pierced by nails). Lond. 1886 * Autograph presentation inscription to E. L. Stevenson by- Aubrey De Vere, 1887. 220. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Mystery of Edwin Drood. First Edition. Portrait, engraved title and 12 plates by Fildes. 8vo, sewed and wrappers (lacks pp. 65 to 82, and some wrappers; shaken and few margins torn into). Lond. 1870 221. DICTIONARY of National Biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen. Original Edition. Vols. 1-8 (A-Cantwell), 10-24 (Chamber-Harriott), and 54 (Stanhope-Stovin). 24 vols, royal 8vo, cloth (2 bindings damaged by nail). Lond. 1885-98 * With Book-plates of E. L. Stevenson in 10 vols, and notes in pencil on fly-leaves of 3 vols., in his handwriting; also on margin of the page containing biographical sketch of J. H. Balfour is an interesting signed pencil note taking exception to the statement made therein regarding the former's popu- larity: "The most unpopular man, and not altogether unde- servedly, in the University, from the lowest janitor up to the Principal. — E. L. S. — An eye and ear witness (but sueh is history !)." 222. DODSON (JOHN). A Report of the Judgment, De- livered in the Consistorial Court of London, by the Right Honourable Sir William Scott, in the Case of Dalrymple The Wife, against Dalrymple the Husband. 8vo, boards, uncut (1 cover loose, blank top cut from title-page). Lond. 1811 23 223. DYER (WILLIAM). Works. 16mo, sheep (rebaeked). *With Signature of Thomas Stevenson. Lond. 1777 224. EDINBURGH WEEKLY REGISTER. From De- cember 7, 1808, to November 15, 1809. 49 numbers in 1 vol. sewed (some margins cut close, shaving text). 225. EGAN (PIERCE). Tom and Jerry. Life in London. Numerous colored illustrations from real life, designed hy I. R. and G. Cruikshank. Small 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. : J. C. Hotten, n. d. 226. ERASMUS in Praise of Folly ; with Life of Erasmus and his Epistle addressed to Sir Thomas More. Portrait, and cuts by Hans Holbein. Small 8vo, half sheep, gilt top, uncut (margins of few pp. stained, slightly shaken). Lond., n. d. 227. FELLOWS (HENRY P.). Boating Trips on New England Rivers. Illustrations. 12mo, cloth (few pp. slightly foxed). Bost. 1884 * Author 's presentation inscription : ' ' With compliments of the author — Boston, April 10, 1884." Visiting card of E. L. Stevenson. 228. FERGUSSON (ROBERT). The Works. To which is prefixed a Sketch of the Author's Life. Portrait. 8vo, half roan (rubbed). Lond. 1807 * A few passages marked with pencil, and page of references in the back. 229. FIELDING (HENRY). The Novels of Henry Field- ing, comprising Tom Jones, The Adventures of Joseph Andrews and Amelia. Portrait, with 20 etchings on steel by O. Cruikshank. 8vo, cloth (back missing, loose in binding). Lond., n.d, * With Stevenson 's visiting card and a few passages marked with pencil. 230. FINDLAY (ALEXANDER G.). A Directory for the Navigation of the North Pacific Ocean, with descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, etc., from Panama to Behring Strait, and Japan. Numerous folding maps. Thick 8vo, cloth (worn). Lond. 1886 Stevenson's copy, used by him on his first trip in the South Seas. On the title-page is the inscription: " R. L. Stevenson, Yacht ' Casco,' Anaho Bay, Marquesas Islands." The book shows the effect of considerable usage, and in the portion devoted to the Islands visited on his trip there are markings and notes in his handwriting. 231. [FORBES (A.).] Unspoken Thoughts. 12mo, cloth, uncut (cover cracked). Lond. 1887 * Presentation inscription : " To B. L. Stevenson, Esq., with grateful thanlcs for pleasure given, A. F., Christchurch, N. Z." 232. FORFEITED ESTATES. A Report From the Com- missioners Appointed To Enquire of the Estates of certain Traitors, &c. In that Part of Great Britain called Scotland. Small folio, half roan (few pp. stained). Lond. 1717 34 233. POUR Leading Doctrines of the New Jerusalem (The). 16mo, cloth (lacks back and cover loose). Edinburgh, 1836 * Drawings and marginal markings, probably by one of the Stevenson family. 234. FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN). The Life of Benjamin Franklin, written by Himself. Now first Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and other writings, by John Bigelow. Portrait. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, un- «ut. Phila. 1875 * With interesting marginal notes and pencilings, including draft of 5 lines of poetry; all in Stevenson's handwriting; also contains his visiting cards pasted in each volume. 235. FRENCH HUMOROUS NEWSPAPER. Le Journal Amusant, Jan. 27, 1866 to May, 1867 (irregular). Illustra- tions. 48 nos. in one vol. folio, half roan (broken and several leaves torn). Paris, 1866-67 286. FULLER (THOMAS). The Historie of the Holy Warre. Fourth Edition. Engraved title and portraits. Small folio, sheep (covers broken, somewhat soiled, margins of en- graved title and of 4 leaves torn) . Printed by Thomas Buck, Printers to the University of Cambridge, 1651. * An interesting association copy ; formerly the property of Alex. Wilson (College Glasgow, 1745), Professor of Astronomy, and manufacturer of many of the types of the famous Foulis Press, with his autograph inscription; also autograph signa- ture of his son Alex. Wilson, the famous ornithologist. The volume also contains the signature of (Sir) John Gibson, 1683. 237. GAIUS. The Commentaries of Gaius. Translated with Notes by J. T. Abdy and Bryan Walker. 12mo, cloth, uncut (part of half-title cut off). Cambridge, 1870 * With marginal pencilings. 238. GARNETT (RICHARD). The Twilight of the Gods, and other Tales. First Edition. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1888 * Presentation copy, with inscription: " Boiert Louis Stev- enson, Esq., from the author." 239. GAVDEAMVS ! Carmina Vagorvm Selecta in Vsvm Lsetitise. 16mo, cloth. Lipsiae, 1879 * With Book-plate of E. L. Stevenson. 240. GILDER (RICHARD W.). Lyrics (a new selection by the Author). 16mo, original wrappers, uncut. N. T. [1887] * Author 'a presentation inscription — ' ' To Bobert Louis Stevenson, with, the regard # admiration of his friend, B. W. Galder—Oot. 1887." 241. GILMOUR (MRS. CHRISTINA COCHRAN). Re- port of the Trial of Mrs. Gilmour, for the Alleged Murder of her Husband. With an Appendix, containing the Medical Reports, and an Account of the Proceedings before the Presi- 25 dent, and Courts of America, relative to her Arrest and Sur- render to tlie British Authorities, to which is prefixed a Notice of her Life. Small 8vo, half calf (rubbed). Edin. 1844 242. GOSSE (EDMUND W.). Seventeenth-Century Stud- ies. First Edition. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1883 * Presentation copy from the author: " Mohert Louis Stev- enson, from his friend, the author." With Stevenson's Book- label. 243. GOSSE (EDMUND). From Shakespeare to Pope. First Edition. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Cambridge, 188.5 * Author's presentation inscription — " Boiert Louis Steven-^ son, from Ms friend, Edrnund Gosse — S8/S/86." With visit- ing card of E. L. Stevenson. 244. GOSSE (EDMUND). The Jacobean Poets. First Edition. 16mo, cloth (back cover slightly damaged by nail) . Lond. 1894 * Author's autograph inscription — "E. L. S., from his friend — E. G. ' ' There is a note on last fly-leaf. 245. HAKE (GORDON). Memoirs of Eighty Years. First Edition. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1892 246. HEADRICK (REV. JAMBS). General View of the Agriculture of the County of Angus; or, Forfarshire. Folding map. 8vo, half calf (back broken). Edin. 1813 * With marginal pencilings. 247. HENDERSON (CAPT. JOHN). General View of the Agriculture of the County of Caithness (Scotland). Map and plates. 8vo, half sheep (broken). Lond. 1812 248. HENLEY (W. E.). Views and Reviews: Literature. First Edition. 16mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1890 * Author's presentation inscription — "Ti. L. S. — W. E. E." 249. HERBERT (GEORGE). The Poetical Works of Herbert; and the Synagogue, by C. Harvey. 16mo, morocco, gilt edges (one cover missing, the other loose). Lond. 1863 * Presented to Stevenson bt his Nurse. At the top of the fly-leaf is inscribed "Alison Cunningham, August 1864,"' and below, in her handwriting: " B. L. B. Stevenson, from Gummy, Jany. 1st, 1866." A few passages are underscored. 250. HERMITS. Solitudo sive Vita; Patrum. 23 copper- plate engravings by J. and R. Sadeler, representing scenes in the life of Hermits. Oblong 4to, half roan. n. p., n. d. * Copper-plate engravings of the 17th Century. 251. [HOADLY (BENJAMIN).] The Election-Dialogue, between A Gentleman, and His Neighbor in the Country, Con- cerning the Choice of Good Members for the Next Parliament. 16 pp. small 4to, sewed. Lond., Printed; Edinburgh, Reprinted, 1710' 252. HOG (THOMAS). Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Thomas Hog. 16mo, sheep (binding rubbed, last leaf stained and corner torn). Edin. 17'5fr 36 253. HOLDSWORTH (PHILIP J.). Station Hunting on the Warrego; Australia; At the Valley of the Popran; and oiher Poems. 12mo, cloth. Sydney, 1885- * Presentation copy, with inscription : "To Robert Louis Stevenson, Esq., from the author, with compliments. P. J. Holdsworth, Sydney, 1803." 254. HOOD (THOMAS). Poems. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1867 Stevenson's copy, with his book-label and several marginal notes in pencil by him. The notes appear mainly in ridicule of the poem "The Bridge of Sighs." For instance, after the verse : "In she plunged boldly. No matter how coldly The rough river ran, — Over the irinlc of it. Picture it — think of it, Dissolute Man! Lave in it, drinlc of it. Then, if you can ! ' ' — he writes ' ' ThamJcee, I pre- fer Gin." 255. HOOD (THOMAS). The Life and Trial of Eugene Aram, who was Executed for the Murder of Daniel Clark, With some Account of his Family ; the Remarkable Defence he made on his Trial, etc. Containing also The Dream of Eugene Aram, A Poem, by Thomas Hood. 12mo, pictorial wrappers, uncut. Leeds, n. d. 256. H;00KE (ROBERT). An Attempt To prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations. Folding plates. Small 4to, old calf (3 pp. loose, corner of title torn and 1 cover missing). Lond. 1674 257. HORACE. Quintus Horatius Placcus (Opera). En- graved frontispiece and vignette on title, by Grignion. 18mo, calf (broken, and foxed). Lond.: J. Baskerville, 1762 258. HUME (DAVID). Life and Correspondence of Hume. By John H. Burton. Portraits and plate. FmsT Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut (one back missing, the other cracked). Edin. 1846 259. HUME (DAVID). Essays, Literary, Moral and Politi- cal. 12mo, cloth (marginal pencilings). Lond., n. d. 27 SECOND SESSION. Tuesday Afternoon, January 26, 1915, at 2:30 o'clock 260. JAMBS (HENRY). Portrait of a Lady, Roderick Random, The American, Daisy Miller, and others. Together 11 vols. 16mo, cloth (some odd volumes). Lond. 1883 * Stevenson's name and the date 1887 are written in 10 of the volumes. 261. JOHNSON (CAPTAIN CHARLES). The History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Street-Robbers, &c. To which is added, A Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Noted Pirates. Frontispiece. 8vo, half calf (rubbed and several pp. stained). Bdin. 1814 262. JOHNSON (SAMUEL). A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. 18mo, calf (rubbed). Bdin. 1806 263. JOHNSON (SAMUEL). Letters of Johnson. Por- trait. 24mo, sheep (broken). Edin. 1822 * Autograph of Thomas Stevenson. 264. JOHNSON (SAMUEL). Boswell's Life of Johnson. Frontispiece and engraved title. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut, (binding worn). Lond. 1848 * Autograph of Lewis Balfour, grandfather of R. L. Steven- son. With marginal peneilings and notes by K. L. Stevenson. 265. JOHNSON (T.). Woodcut portrait of R. L. Steven- son. Bust slightly to left. Signed and dated proof on plate paper. 4to. (Slightly stained.) 266. Another copy of the same. Signed and dated. (Slightly stained.) 267. Another copy. Signed and dated. (Margins slightly stained.) 268. ■ Another copy. Signed and dated. (Stained.) 269. Another copy. Signed and dated. (Stained.) 270. Another copy. Unsigned. 271. JOURNAL of the Proceedings (The) ; of the Lds. Commissioners of Both Nations in the Treaty of Union, Which began on the 16th of April, 1706 and was concluded on the 22d of July following. 79 pp. small 4to, sewed. 2 copies. Bdin., n. d. 272. JUSTINIAN. Institutiones. Berloni, 1863 ; M. Pabii Quintiliana, Institutionis Oratorise (E. Bonnell). Berlin, 1863. 2 pamphlets, 8vo, wrappers. Berlin, 1863 28 273. KAY (JOHN). A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, by John Kay, Miniature Painter, Edin- burgh. With Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes. ,555 por- traits and plates. 2 vols, in 4 vols. 8vo, morocco, gilt (rubbed at hinges). Edin. : Hugh Paton, 1842 * These plates illustrate an interesting epoch in the history of Scotland. Throughout the greater part of half a century the artist devoted himself with enthusiasm to his novel undertak- ing of portraying the principal characters of the day. 274. KNOX (JOHN). The Life and Times of John Knox. Two Lectures delivered to the Members of the Edinburgh St. Patrick's Catholic Young Men's Society, 1867-68. By "The Secretary of the Society." 12mo, wrappers (wrappers Btained). Edin. 1868 * Marginal notes of great interest in handwriting of E. L. Stevenson and autograph signature of W. E. Henley on title. 275. LANDOE (WALTER SAVAGE). Selections from the Writings of Landor. Arranged and edited by Sidney Colvin. Vignette portrait. Lond. 1882 * Presentation copy, with inscription: " R. L. S. from S. C." [Sidney Colvin]. On the half title Stevenson has written his initials in pencil, and there are numerous marked passages throughout the book — most of them relating to death and resig- nation. 276. LANTERIUS (JACOBUS). Libri duo, de modo sub- gtruendi terrena munimenta ad urbes atque oppidos. With Woodcuts and the 2 rare folding plates. 4to, half russia (joints broken). Venetiis: 1563 * An interesting book on fortifications. With autograph of Thomas Stevenson. Duplicate from the British Museum, with stamp. 277. LAUDER (SIR JOHN). Historical Observes of Memorable Occurrents in Church and State, from Oct., 1680 to April, 1686. Portrait. 4to, half morocco, uncut (rubbed). Edin. 1840 * One of a limited number of copies printed for members of the Bannatyne Club. With a few marginal pencilings. 278. LAW (ROBERT). Memorialls; or, The Memorable Things that Fell Out Within this Island of Brittain from 1638 to 1684. Edited from the MS. By Charles K. Sharpe. Frontispiece. 4to, calf (broken). Edin. 1819 279. LAWRENCE (LORD). Life of Lord Lawrence. By R. B. Smith. Portraits and map. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut (bindings faded, one signature loose). N. Y. 1885 280. LECKY (W. E. H.). A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. 5 vols. 12mo, cloth (bindings soiled). ^ Lond. 1892 281. LEECH (JOHN). Pictures of Life and Character, from the Collection of Mr. Punch. Second and Third Series. 2 vols oblong folio, boards (leather back worn, some pages torn). Lond. 1860 29 282. LE GALLIENNE (RICHARD). The Book-Bills of Narcissus. 12nio, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1892 * Autograph inscription on tilte — ' ' B. L. S., from H. Tay- lor. ' ' [Probably Sir Henry Taylor.] 283. LE GALLIENNE (RICHARD). The Religion of a Literary Man (Religio Seriptoris). 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1894 * Presentation copy, with inscription: "BoTiert Louis Stev- enson, from Bichard Le Gallienne." 284. LETTER from a Member of the Commission of the Late General Assembly, to a Minister in the Country (A) ; Concerning Present Dangers. 8 pp. small 4to (few marginal notes in ink). Edin. 1707 * Eef ers to the union of Scotland and England. 285. LETTER Prom A Fyfe Gentleman (A), at present in Edinburgh, to Chief Magistrate of a Burgh in Fyfe, Upon our present Situation, with regard to the Malt-Tax. 16 pp. 8vo, uncut. Edin. 1725 286. LINDSAY (ROBERT). The History of Scotland, 1436-1565. 16mo, calf (broken). Glasgow, 1749 * With signature of Thomas Stevenson. 287. LINDSAY (SIR DAVID). The Works of the Famous and Worthy Knight, Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, alias, Lyon, King of Arms. 18mo, calf (broken and few pp. foxed). Glasgow : Printed by Robert Sanders, 1712 * With signature of Thomas Stevenson. 288. LITHGOW (WILLIAM). The Totall Discourse, of the rare Adventures . . . from Scotland, etc. Illustrations. Small 4to, half leather (broken, several leaves missing, etc., not returnable). Lond. 1632 * First Edition. Very Scarce. Autograph of Thomas Stevenson on fly-leaf. 289. [LOGAN (WILLIAM).] A Letter to an English Member of Parliament, From a Gentleman in Scotland, Con- cerning The Slavish Dependencies, which a great Part of that Nation is still kept under, by Superiorities, Wards, Reliefs, and other Remains of the Feudal Law, and by Clanships and Tithes. 8vo,, sewed. Edin. 1721 * With marginal pencilings. 290. LOVAT (LORD). Anecdotes of the Life of Lord Lovat. 16mo, half roan, uncut (top margin of title-page mended). Lond. 1746 * With Stevenson's visiting card and note at end in his handwriting. 291. LOVAT (LORD) . Memoirs of the Life of Lord Lovat. Small 8vo, sewed. Lond. 1746 30 292. LOWE (CHARLES) . Prince Bismarck : an Historical Biography. New Edition (with an entirely new chapter, now first published). Portrait. 12mo, cloth, uncut (bindinij slightly soiled). Lond. 1892 * Author's presentation inscription: "To Sohert Louis Stevenson, with the hind regards of his old fellow student, The Author, Sept. 189S." 293. LUNARDI (VINCENT). An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland. Fine stipple plate portrait in sepia, engraved by Burke, and 2 copperplate engravings. 8vo, boards, uncut (few pages soiled). Lond. 1786 * With pencil note by E. L. Stevenson ; ' ' Very scarce : has all 3 plates." Bound with the above is: Mr. Lunardi's ac- count of his ascension and aerial voyage from New Fort, Liverpool. 40 pp. 294. MACAULAY (THOMAS B.). Lays of Ancient Rome. Numerous ivoodcuts by 6. Scharf, Jr. Small 4to, morocco, gauffred edges (inscription on title-page). Lond. 1849 295. M'CRIE (THOMAS). The Life of John Knox: con- taining Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland. Tivo portraits. 2 vols. 8vo, old calf. Edin. 1818 * Presentation copy to the Rev. Lewis Balfour, from the latter 's mother, with inscription by her, dated April, 1821. 296. MACKAY (CHARLES). A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry. Illustrations by Millais, Gilbert and Foster. 8vo, calf (covers loose). With presentation inscrip- tion. Lond., n. d. 297. MACKAY (HUGH). The Life of Lieut.-General Hugh Mackay, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in Scotland, 1689-1690. Portrait. 4to, half morocco, uncut (rubbed). Edin. 1836 * Gne of 101 copies printed for members of the Bannatyne Club, 298. [MACKENZIE (GEORGE, EARL OF CROM- ARTY).] Parainesis Paciflca; or, A Perswasive to the Union of Britain. 22 pp. small 4to, sewed (ink stains on several pages). Edin. 1702 299. MACKENZIE (SIR GEORGE). Essays Upon Sev- eral Moral Subjects. 8vo, calf (lacks cover; name on title). Lond. 1713 300. M'LAREN (J. WILSON). Scots Poems and Ballants. 8vo, half parchment, gilt top, uncut. Edin. 1892 ■"Presentation copy, with inscription: " Robert Louis Stev- enson from the Author." Limited to 150 copies. 301. MACLAURIN (REV. JOHN). An Essay on the Prophecies relating to the Messiah. 8vo, cloth, uncut (loose in binding). Edin. 1773 * Autograph signature of Thomas Stevenson on title ; with note and figures at end. 31 MANUSCRIPTS IN THE HANDWRITING OF R. L. STEVENSON. IN INK AND PENCIL. 302. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSE. 18 lines in pencil. 2 pp. 4to. Unpublished. * Cancellations, changes and additions by Stevenson. 303. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEMS, verses and Law notes. 65 pp. mostly in pencil, in note book, 4to, boards. * Used as a note book while Stevenson was studying law iu Edinburgh. Contains some of his early attempts at writing poetry. 304. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSE, signed with initials. 8 lines, 1 p. 8vo. Unpublished. 305. MANUSCRIPT- NOTES in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson. 5 pages of notes and references, written in ink on 5 double pages from a 4to book. 306. MANUSCRIPT NOTES in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson. 3 pages of notes in ink, with the heading : ' ' Poun- tainhall. Vol.1." On the reverse sides of the 3 quarto double pages there are notes in pencil in the same handwriting, in- cluding a list of chapter headings for "The Bass Rock," a projected story. 307. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTE BOOK containing numerous poems, verses, law notes, etc., some in pencil. 96 pp. small 4to, boards. Practically all unpublished. *A note on inside of cover reads in part: "E. L. S.'s Notes on Law while a student in Edinburgh. . . . When 'Underwoods' were collected, (many from the 'baoTcs of en- velopes and fly-leaves of hoolcs), these in this lioolc were care- fully gone over." One of the verses reads: ' ' Browning made the verses Your servant the critique; Browning couldn't sing at all I fancy I could speaTc. Although the ioolc was clever (To give the de'l his due) I wasn't pleased with Browning Nor he with my review. ' ' 308. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSES. 39 lines. 2 pp. folio. Unpublished. * Cancellations, corrections and additions by the author. One verse reads in part: ' ' Sears, and his hearing slowly fills Sivers and winds among the twisted hills. And harlcens, and Ms face is lit, Life facing, death missing it." 309. NOTE BOOK used by Stevenson when he was study- ing law in Edinburgh. 73 pages in pencil in an 8vo cloth covered note book. * Interspersed with the notes on Eoman Law are many at- tempts at verse, most of which are unfinished. There are other memorandums of expenses and personal matters. 32 STEVENSON MANVSGRIFTS— Continued. 310. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSE. 10 verses con- taining 80 lines, in pencil. 4 pp. folio. Unpublished. * Cancellations, eoi'rections and additions by Stevenson. 311. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEM, "Let Beauty Awake, ' ' 2 verses of 6 lines each. An early draft of the pub- lished poem with 2 slight variations, accompanied with origi- nal draft of the second verse, showing cancellations; also 24 lines of unpublished verse, some in pencil, and an original pencil sketch. 3 pp. folio and small 4to. 312. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT NOTE BOOK, con- taining his early geometrical exercises, probably written in 1866, filling 28 pp. with diagrams. The remainder of the book, comprising 37 written pages, are filled with early poems, written in 1878 or thereabouts. 4to, half leather and boards. * This is apparently a school note-book, with the unfilled pages used by Stevenson soon after parting from his future wife in the forests of Fontainebleau, during the despondent days that followed and amid his plans for the future. Three themes seem to bear the burden of his song; childhood re- membrances, the parting from his loved ones, and a scorn of the world, its conventions and religion. Of the first he writes: "I hear, O city of my Tiirth, Once more faint sounds of houseliold mirth, And see faint firelight round t}ie hearth Once more as in the early days." « * * * * "Gone arc the fair old dreams, gone, one ty one. As, one hy one, the hove to reach them went. ' ' "With liberal hand, in life's bright morning hour, God crowned my head with hopes and visions high. Flower after ftotver I pluclced them, flower by flower Spoiled their bright leaves and, careless, threw them by. ' ' 313. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSES. Contains original draft of the first verse (5 lines) of "In the High- lands, in the Country Places, ' ' 3 lines of which appear in some- what different form in the published version ; also 23 lines of verse jottings. 2 pp. folio. In pencil. UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT. 314. THE GO-BETWEEN: a Boy's Romance. Chapter I. Which tells of An Angel's Visit. ^Manuscript Draft in the Autograph of Stevenson. Polio, pp. 6. * In writing to his friend Sidney Oolvin, in May, 1893, re- garding some of his unpublished work, Stevenson mentions the above work, saying: "Then there's the Go-Betioeen, which is not impossible altogether." 315. The same. Chapter I. An Angel's Visit; also por- tion of Chapter II, and two pages of prefatory remarks, written in the first person ; with a rough draft of the chapter headings for the whole work. In all 12 pp. folio. * This is apparently Stevenson 's First Draft of the above story. It contains many cancellations and corrections, the first chapter varying somewhat from that of the preceding item. 33 STEVENSON MANUSCRIPTS— Coji/i/med. 316. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSES. 25 lines, some in pencil. 2 pp. 4to. Unpublished. * Shows cancellatioTis in one \eiso and contemplated changes in another. 317. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEM, "To You, let Snow and Roses," containing 4 words and one line (first idea) which do not appear in the published version, 2 verses of 8 lines each; also a cancelled Poem, 3 verses of 8 lines each and 37 lines of verse jottings, unpublished. 2 pp. 4to. 318. PORTIONS OP^ ORIGINAL VERSE. 2 pp. 4to. 2 pieces. Unpublished. * "With corrections and additions, reading in part : ' ' Fixed is the doom ; and to the la fit of years Teacher and taught, friend, lover, parent, child, Each walks, though near, yet separate; each heholds His dear ones shine beyond him like the stars." 319. MANUSCRIPT ESSAY on a "Student's Meeting and Class Excursion." 3 pp. folio. Unpublished. * The ubove essay was written by Stevenson during his student days at the University of Edinburgh, 1867-73, and gives an account of one of the Clans Suppers, of which he says: "There was .something uneasy and feverish about the whole affair." Regarding the Excursion which took place the follow- ing day, he says : ' ' These class excursions are crucial tests of a student's abilities." 320. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of ' ' The Young Cheva- lier" containing the text as published in Lay Morals and Other Papers. Written in ink on 13 quarto sheets. Revised copy, with very few corrections. 321. MANUSCRIPT POEM to Frederick Locker, in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson, with the heading: "To Locker." 5 verses of 4 lines each, with two lines cancelled. Written in ink on two quarto sheets. * A very interesting item. 322. EARLY MANUSCRIPT NOTES and an Unpublished Manuscript Poem ' ' The Mill-house : A Sick-bed fancy. ' ' With an Index referring to the Notes. 16 pp. of manuscript in a 4to note-book. * In July, 1868 Stevenson went to watch the harbor works at Anstruther. The above notes include some of his observa- tions on dressing masonry, work of men, etc., as well as some of his earlier notes (1866-67) on the regulation, of clocks and watches, contraction and escpansion of water, master and workmen (March, 1867), retaining walls, etc. The poem is one of Stevenson's earlier efforts, and comprises 98 lines on 5 pages. 323. SIX MANUSCRIPT SONNETS. 4 pp. folio. Dated 1870. No. 1 entitled "To the Sea"; No. 2, "To my Pipe"; No. 3, no title; No. 4, "Sir Allan M 'Lean's effigy, on Inch 34 STEVENSON MANUSCRIPTS— ConiinMed. Kenneth," No. 5, "Lines to be sent with the present of a Sketch-book," and No. 6, no title. Probably unpublished. * On the last page, beneath a three-verse poem in peni'il, he lias written: "Those are very clever men, Who can unite with current pen Those fourteen convoluted lines, That experts call, a sonnet. ' ' 324. ORIGINAL ilANUSCRIPT of "Madrigal," 24 lines of verse, written on a folio sheet. This appears in "Under- woods" with the same text. 325. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of "A Retrospect." Entirely in Stevenson's autograph, showing two styles of writing, ''^y|■ittcn■ nt Dunoon, 1S70." Differs slightly in some instances from the published version. 16 pp. folio. * An essay on the delights of memories and recollections stirred by reading Hazlitt's Essays. In "Memories and Por- traits" he says: ''Whenever 1 read a hook or a passage that particularly pleased nie, . . I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. . . I have thus played the sedulous ape to Saslitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire, and to Ohermann. ' ' Posthumously published in the Edinburgh Edition. 326. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEM, "The Bour-Tree Den." 96 lines; also two cancelled verses of 4 lines each. 4 pp. small folio. Unpublished. * Changes, corrections and additions in Stevenson 's hand- writing. Eeads in part: " Clinlcum-clanl' in the rain they ride. Down iy the braes and the grey sea-side, Clinlcum-clank by stone and cairn H'eary fa' their horse-shoe-airn ! Loud on the causey, soft on the sand. Bound they rode by the tail of the land Bound and up by the Bour-Tree Den Weary fa' the red-coat men!" 327. ORIGINAL ^MANUSCRIPT of "Cockermouth and Keswick." Entirely in Stevenson's autograph. Written prob- ably in 1872 or '73. 20 pp. folio. * First published in the Edinburgh Edition of the works, Dec, 1896. But one change has been made in the printed form; where he speaks of walking out of a hotel in Ant- werp, in the MS. there is a blank for the name of the hotel, in the book this blank has been filled in by the editor with the name "St. Antoine." ■328. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ODE, "To Time." 16 lines, 1 p. small 4to. Unpublished. * Beading in part : "God of the business man, to thee, Time, I bow the suppliant hnee, And to thy dwarfish temple bring My books as a peace-offering." .85 STEVENSON MANVSCHIFTS— Continued. UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT NOVEL. 329. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, in Stevenson's hand- writing, of one of liis earliest attempts at novel writing, en- titled ' ' When the Devil was Well. ' ' 53 pages of manuscript, 4to. [Edinburgh, 1874-75] * Exceedingly interesting and valuable literary paper; being one of his earliest attempts at novel wkiting. Several of the margins contain long critical notes in the handwriting of his father, the one on the last page referring to the ending of the story. In hia earlier days Stevenson was in the habit of sending his manuscripts to his father, who made critical notes and returned the copy to his son. The present work shows the extreme interest taken in his son's work by the elder Stevenson. The scene is laid around an Italian Convent, where an Italian sculptor of the 15th century meets and falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Ippolita, wife of the Duke Arsino. Eegarding this story Stevenson writing to Mrs. Sitwell in Jan., 1875, says: "I am so happy. I am no longer in Edin- burgh. I have hcen all yesterday evening and this fore- noon in Italy, four hundred years ago, with one Sannaszaro, sculptor, painter, poet, etc., and one Ippolita, a beautiful Duchess. I liTce it badly! . . What a change this is from collecting dull notes for John Knox;" again writing to his friend Sidney Colvin in Jan., 1875, he says': "The story is called When the Devil was well; scene, Italy, Menaissance ; colour, purely imaginary of course, my own unregenerate idea ' of what Italy then was." The work was never published, owing to unfavorable opinions expressed by Stevenson's friends. 330. TWO ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEMS, "Youth and Love." One containing 2 stanzas of 5 lines each and the other 8 stanzas of 4 lines each. 2 pp. small folio. Portion un- j ublished. * With changes, corrections and additions. In the published version of these poems, the second one appeared in the form of 4 verses only, the other four verses never having appeared in print. STEVENSON'S MUSIC. 331. MANUSCRIPT MUSIC, arranged and written by R. L. Stevenson for the flageolet. Two-piece subjects with the headings: "The Garb of Old Gaul," "Bach's Pentecostal Air," "L'Amo, L'Amo." 3 sheets, 4to. * Probably arranged to be played by Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. 332. MANUSCRIPT MUSIC, arranged and written in ink by R. L. Stevenson. 3 pieces, with the following titles : ' ' The Bloom is on the Rye," "The Winter it is Past," "Logie o' Buchan." On 2 quarto sheets. 36 STEVENSON 'S MVSIC— Continued. 333 MANUSCRIPT MUSIC SCORES in tlie handwriting o± K. L. Stevenson, arranged for the flageolet and with the following headings: "Air de Louis XIII," "Drink to me " Chanson de Marie," ■■Habanera." Written on 2 double 4to sheets. 334 MANUSCRIPT MUSIC SCORES in the handwriting ° mn ■ T; t'^'^'^'^^on. Arrangements with the following titles: The British Grenadiers," "The Harp that Once," "Wan- dering Willie," etc. Written on 2 double quarto sheets. 335 iMANUSCRIPT MUSIC SCORES in the handwriting otR. L. >Stevenson. Arrangements with the following titles: Fruhlmgs laube," "Du Bist die Ruh," "Lucrezia Borgia " and others. Written on 2 double quarto pages. 336. MANUSCRIPT MUSIC SCORES in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson. Arranged by him and with the following titles: "Ploughboy Fantasia," "Clementi," "Wohin? Schu- bert," etc. Written on 4 quarto sheets. 337. MANUSCRIPT MUSIC SCORES in the handwriting- of R. L. Stevenson. Arrangements made by him for the flageolet with the following titles: "By Celia's Arbour," "L'Amo, L'Amo Lloyd," etc. Written on 3 quarto sheets.' 338. MANUSCRIPT MUSIC SCORES, in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson, and arranged by him for the piano ; with the following inscriptions: "Little Air," "What's a' the steer, Kimmer?" and others. 6 pp. on 4 quarto sheets. * Original drafts, some with corrections. 339. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MUSIC, arranged or composed by R. L. Stevenson, and entirely in his handwriting, 3 quarto sheets containing 5 pages partly filled. 340. MANUSCRIPT MUSIC in the handwriting of Stev- enson. Signed "R. L. S." Original Draft of "Nights of Vailima." 2 pp. 4to. * This draft contains a longer score than that found in the corrected version. 341. MANUSCRIPT MUSIC, arranged by Stevenson for the Flageolet, all one-piece scores, with the following inscrip- tions in Stevenson's handwriting: "Farewell to Tautira; Aberlady Links; Traumerei." 3 pp. of score on 2 4to sheets. 342. MANUSCRIPT MUSIC, arranged by Stevenson for the Flageolet. One-verse song, beginning "Ber-ried brake and reed-y island " ; an unfinished Ditty ; also on reverse side of sheet, an unfinished music score. 3 pieces on one 4to sheet. 343. MANUSCRIPT MUSIC in the Handwriting of Stev- enson, with Words and Score. Original draft of a two-verse song, commencing "By Gclia's arbour all the night" and end- ing "Then if upon her hosom bright some drops of dew shall fall from thee . . tell h er they are not drops of night, but tears 37 STEVENSON'S MVSIC— Continued. of sorroiu shed hy vie." On the reverse of the above page is an original music score by Stevenson, entitled "My mother bids." Accompanying the above are two pages of unfinished music score by Stevenson. 4 pp. 4to. 344. MANUSCRIPT NOTES for an Essay on "The Life and Opinions of John Knox: collected and set forth." 23 slips of paper of various sizes, some of them being large quarto sheets, filled with extracts and original comments. Enclosed in a large envelope, with the above title on the outside, in Stevenson's handwriting. * Evidently Stevenson intended to write another Essay on John Knox, with the title given above. The notes are entirely in Stevenson's handwriting. 345. MANUSCRIPT NOTES for his essay: "An Apology for Idlers." Including a transcript of the quotation from Boswell's Johnson, used in the book, and notes for other papers which appeared in ' ' Virginibus Puerisque. ' ' 4 pages, 4to; written in ink and with pencil. 346. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSES. 4 verses, con- taining 37 lines. 2 pp. small folio. Unpublished. * With changes, corrections and additions. One stanza reads: "Lies the necessary sword? In the green field or quiet street Besieged wc sleep, beleaguered eat; Labor by day and wake o' nights In war with rival appetites. The rose on roses feeds, the larTc On larlcs; the sedentary cleric All moving with a diligent pen Murders the babes of other men." 347. MANUSCRIPT OF A CRITICAL ARTICLE with the heading: "Law and Freewill: Notes on the Duke of Argyll." 20 pages, written on 5 double sheets of foolscap paper. * A very serions criticism of the Duke of Argyll 's ' ' Eeign of Law," written about 1870. There are a number of cor- - rections and changes in the text made in pencil, probably at a later date, as the handwriting is somewhat different. Prob- ably unpublished. 348. MANUSCRIPT POEMS written on 9 sheets of folio size and containing 16 pages in the handwriting of the author. * All of the poems appear to be unpublished and all were written in his early manhood, probably in 1870. Many of them show the influence of Walt Whitman and are written in the same rugged, uneven form in which he wrote. 349. MANUSCRIPT NOTE BOOK containing some ver- sions of the Scotch poem "The Spaewife," a list of some of his friends, an unpublished humorous dedication to "Man of a most extended belly," two descriptive sonnets, and several pages of notes, probably for "The Young Chevalier." 17 written pages. 12mo, leather. 38 350. TWO ORIGINAL POEMS, written in pencil on both sides of an octavo sheet, one contains 3 verses of 6 lines each ; the other 6 verses, 1 of 3 lines and 5 of 4 lines each. Unpub- lished. * One reads in part : "At morn when from his ied he arose Be pulled his stockings o'er his toes; Over his socles he pulled his hoots, And donned his flannel undersuits. The poor might shiver in alley and lane He would he dressed like Gharlemain." 351. PORTION OP AN ESSAY in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson. 1 p. 4to. * Reads in part: "So in reading hooks, a strong hoy can learn something of what it is to he a ivealc hoy, and a boy of what it is to he a girl, and a son of what it is to he a father or a mother, and the young of what it is to be old. Only a little, the more is the pity; hut it is just hy means of that little that we can he Icind and good. Of these two things, the information and the moral that can be got out of hooks, the second is far the more important. Information is easily forgotten. . . But the moral is of use all through." 352. LITTLE ODES AND SONGS. Manuscript Note Book containing many of his Earlier Poems and Songs, some of which have date attached. 84 pp. in one vol. small 4to (a few pages cut out), limp covers. * The above Odes were written by the author during his early days at Swanston Cottage and at Mentone. They in- clude many unpublished poems of this period, as well as a few of later date. Among some of the more important ones may be mentioned the following: Ode to Sydney (his cousin RolDert A. Stevenson) ; Ode to Marcus (Charles Baxter) ; to Minnie with a hand-glass (written to his cousin on her birthday — a variation of the published version), A Valentine Song; the published poem "In the States;" Inscription for the Tankard of a Society now dissolved; An English Breeze; Ode to Madame Lassetsky and Madame Garschine; an Un- published ode to Henry James; the well-known ode to Andrew Lang, and other odes and sonnets. 353. MANUSCRIPT POEMS. Thirteen original poems, written by Stevenson in ink on 8 quarto pages ; on the reverse of the pages are notes, chess problems, chapter headings, etc., in ink and pencil. On 8 double 4to sheets. * Most of the poems are without headings, and probably all are unpublished. 354. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of two short Essays: "Sunday Thoughts" and "Good Content." 2 pages, folio, in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson, and dated June 2 and June 7th, 1875. * Apparently unpublished essays by Stevenson, in his hand- writing. 355. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEil, appearing in "Underwoods": "If this were Faith." 3 verses containing 37 lines, with additional verse of 8 lines unpublished. 3 pp. small folio. 89 356. MANUSCRIPT OF AN UNFINISHED STORY with the title ' ' Mr. Baskerville and his Ward. ' ' 8 pages, folio. * At the top Stevenson has written ' ' Chapter I, ' ' and this may be one of the many starts at novel writing he made in his younger years. 357. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSES. 2 verses of 16 lines each; also 4 lines of verse jottings. 2 pp. small 4to. Unpublished. * Corrections and additions, with a list of words on margins. 358. NOTE BOOK containing memorandums, a chess prob- lem, sketch of a story, drinking song, etc. 4to, limp boards, cloth back. 359. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of his Poem "To you, let Snow and Roses," appearing in "Underwoods." 2 verses of 8 lines each. 1 p. small folio. * Shows cancellation of one word and addition in pencil. UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT NOVEL. 360. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, entirely in the hand- writing of Stevenson; with the following title: "The Hair Trunk; or. The Ideal Commonwealth; an Extravaganza, by Robert Louis Stevenson, author of 'An Inland Voyage,' 'Pic- turesque Notes on Edinburgh,' 'Travels with a donkey.' " 145 pages of manuscript in two small 4to vols., half roan. * An extremely interesting and valuable literary item, being his First Seeious Attempt at Novel Wkiting. The work is divided into two books, each with a list of chapter headings. The first book is complete in five chapters, while the second book, which was intended to complete the story, has only the first four chapters, the last and concluding chapter never having been started. It is interesting to note that the above story is that of a party of friends at Cambridge, who propose to establish a Colony in Navigator's Island (Samoa) ; the author having heard of the South Sea Islands the year previous (1875) through his connection with the Hon. J. Seed, Secty. to the Customs and Marine Departments of New Zealand. Regarding the story itself, Stevenson, writing to his friend Mrs. Sitwell, in May 1877, says: "/ am engaged upon — trumpets, drums — a novel ' The Hair Trunlc; or, The Ideal Commonwealth.' It is a most absurd siory of a lot of young Cambridge fellows who are going to found a new society, with no ideas on the subject, and nothing hut Bohemian tastes in the place of ideas . . but the trunlc is the fun of it — everybody steals it; . The first scene . . . is supposed to he very funny, hy Henley. I really saw him laugh over it until he cried. ' ' (See Frontispiece.) 40 361. MANUSCRIPT NOTE BOOK containing nearly 50 written pages of notes and poems made during his holiday at Barbizon, Nemours, and in the forests of Fontainebleau. Oblong 16mo, half leather. [1875] * Contains the notes from which ' ' Forest Notes ' ' was writ- ten, and many unpublished poems, a sea sketch, dialogues, and memoranda. The first and second writing of some of the poems appear. The following are extracts: "Since I am sworn to live my life, And not to keep an easy heart, Some men may sit and drinlc apart, I hear a banner in the strife. * * * # I follow gaily to the fife, Leave Wisdom homed above a chart, An-d Prudence brawling in the mart, And dare misfortune to the Tcnife; Since I am sworn to live my life." 362. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of his Poem "Mater Triumphans," 3 verses of 4 lines each, with his autograph ■signature in full. 1 p. dto. * One line cancelled, showing his first idea; and two later versions of the same. 363. ORIGINAL DRAFT of the Manuscript for his Poem "The L^nforgotten — II." 4 verses of 4 lines each. With several other verses. 2 pp. small folio. Portion unpublished. * The published version contains only 3 stanzas. There are also corrections and cancellations by Stevenson. DRAFT OF "A MOUNTAIN TOWN IX FRANCE." 364. EARLY DRAFT of the above article, which was in- tended to be the opening chapter of "Travels with a Donkey." 5 pages, folio. Entirely in the handwriting of the author. * This manuscript differs throughout from the published text. It is headed "Travels with a donkey in the French Highlands. Le Monastier. " Although it is not carried so far as the printed version there is matter at the beginning which is unpublished. 365. Another draft. 2 pages, folio. Differing from both the published text and the above draft. 366. MANUSCRIPT with the title: "A Dialogue on Men, Women, and 'Clarissa Harlowe.' " 5 pages, folio, written in ink and with pencil, by R. L. Stevenson. * An imaginary conversation between a husband and wife, to whom enters a bachelor friend with an armful of books. It is mostly about Eichardson's novel, and is written in a most amusing vein. Believed to be unpublished. 367. NOTE BOOK containing sketches of figures and scenery, a short sketch of his life, drafts of poems, chess prob- lems, etc. All in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson, mostly in pencil. About 15 pages, in a 4to note book. 41 368. ORIGINAL :\IANUSCRIPT POEMS. 2 verses, one of 21 lines and one of 16 lines. 2 pp. 8vo. Unpublished. * Cancellations, corrections and additions by Stevenson. One verse reading in part: "All night upon the mats sleepless I lay, I heard iltc hreath of the besieging sea." AUTOGRAPH :\rANUSCRIPT OF "THE IDEAL HOUSE." 369. MANUSCRIPT OF "THE IDEAL HOUSE," as printed in his collected works. 4 pages, folio. * Complete manuscript of the above essay, with the text used in the posthumous collection issued under the title "Es- says of Travel." There are a number of changes and cor- rections in the text. 370. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSES. Collection of 9 classical imitations, containing 102 lines. 8 pp. small 4to. Unpublished. * With changes, corrections and additions by the author. One verse reads: ' ' chief director of the growing race, Of Home the glory and of Borne the grace, Me, Quintilian, may you not forgive Though, far from labour, I make haste to live? Some burn to gather wealth, lay hands on rule. Or with white statues fill the atrium full. The talking hearth, the rafters swart with smoke. Live fountains and rough grass, my love invoke: A sturdy slave content: a not too learned wife: Nights filled with slumber and a quiet life." 371. MANUSCRIPT NOTES for his play "Autolycus in Service," written on 9 folio sheets, containing 11 pages of material written by R. L. Stevenson. 372. PORTION OF AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PLAY; probably "Autolycus in Service." 4 pp. small 4to. Unpublished. * With changes, corrections and additions by Stevenson. 373. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT without title. 9 folio pages, entirely in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson. Un- published. * Somewhat in the style of Lay Morals and probably written at about the same time. It begins : ' ' The person to whom this writing is addressed is any young man, conscious of his youth, conscious of vague powers and qualities, and fretting at the bars of life. Like one who comes late to the doors of the theatre, he find the crowd compact, and wanders in the open." 374. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of an imaginative and descriptive Essay on Green Pastures and Quiet Water-ways, entitled "The Quiet Waters By." Dedicated to "F. I. S." 2 pp. folio. May 25th, 18T5. Unpublished. 375. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POEM in pencil. Con- taining 1 verse of 4 lines and 3 verses of 8 lines each. 1 p. small 4to. Unpublished. 42 376. MANUSCRIPT OP "HESTER XOBLB'S MIS- TAKE : The Tragedy of H. N." 3 pages, folio, in the hand- writing of R. L. Stevenson. * The above appears to be the outline of a play contemplated by Stevenson. On the three sheets is a sketch of the plot of Act I, which contains 8 scenes. The completed play was to have been in 4 acts. A list of the characters heads the play- Oliver Cromwell taking a. prominent part. 377. MANUSCRIPT NOTES in the Autograph of Steven- son, containing recollections of California .Mining Days. Un- published Notes. 7 pp. folio. With 2 pen-and-ink sketches. * Eeminiscences of Stevenson 's stay in Monterey, the ancient Capital of California, and in Sacramento : during the month of Dec, 1^878. , ^y, kj^ _ 378. ORIGINAL ilANUSCRIPT VERSES. One of 14 lines and one of 7 lines. 1 p. folio. Unpublished. * With changes and additions by the author. Beads in part : "These rings, my leloved Fair For me on your hroivn fingers ivear: Each, a perpetual caress To tell you of my tenderness. ' ' UNPUBLISHED ]\IANUSCRIPT ESSAY. 379. BOOKS AND READING. No. 2. How Boolvs have to be Written. Entirely in the handwriting of Stevenson, and signed. 5 pp. small 4to. * A charming unpublished essay for boys. Probably written in 1878 or 1879, in which he says: "It may seem verii easy to write the truth . . . But whenever people try for somethivg larger and longer . . They iegin to find it exceedingly diffi- cult to tell the truth . . . And it is ly what he leaves out, much rather than hy what he puts in, that he manages to tell so many lies. ' ' 380. ESSAYS, REFLECTIONS AND REMARKS ON HUMAN LIFE. Manuscript Note Book containing the first draft of the published work. 21 pp. in the autograph of Stevenson. Small 4to, boards, leather back. * These Notes, comprising the original draft of this Essay, made by Stevenson in 1879- '80, show the cancellations, cor- rections and additions made by him at a later date; in one instance two paragraphs being combined into one. The Essay, however, was not published until after the author 's death, when it appeared in the Edinburgh Edition of his works. At the end of the volume are 10 pages containing a list of Scotch works. 381. ROUGH MANUSCRIPT DRAFTS of poems, written in pencil on 2 pages of 12mo note paper. Unpublished. 382. "ROBIN AND BEN; or, The Pirate and the Apothe- cary"; also, "The Builder's Doom." 2 Manuscript Poems, in ink. 17 pages, in small 4to note book. (Bdin. 1882) * Manuscript copy; being the first finished draft of each poem, as it appears in the published work. The first poem con- tains one line from an earlier version, which has been cancelled and the new and correct version inserted. The second poem has seven cancelled lines, one of which has the corrected form inserted, the other 6 lines being left out altogether in the final 43 issue. Among the cancelled lines in the latter poem are four at the end, which appear in an earlier draft, but in a different form. There are also a few manuscript drafts of other poems. It is interesting to note the variations in the character of Stevenson 's handwriting employed in writing these poems. UNPUBLISHED ESSAYS ON MORALITY AND CRIME. 383. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT in the handwriting of Stevenson: comprising "Pilate's Question," "Who Will Show Us any Good Thing," "Ethics of Crime," and "Morality." In all 2'5 folio pages of manuscript. * The above Essays in all probability were written about 1876, at the time when Stevenson was troubled with the religious side of life, and they show his inner thoughts on the great questions of morality, crime, and duty to his fellow-man. Many passages contain corrections, and it is interesting to note his original thought, as expressed in the cancelled lines. These Essays would seem to be missing parts of "Lay Morals, ' ' prited in his collected works, in their incomplete form, as they were found among his papers. 384. MANUSCRIPT NOTE BOOK of Poems for the Child's Garden of Verses, List of Places "Where I have Slept, ' ' and a List of proposed Plays. 45 pages of manuscript in the autograph of Stevenson. Small 4to, limp boards. * Contains the original rough drafts of poems ; the pages being written in Stevenson's characteristic style, many lines being cancelled and others inserted in their places. The list of places in which he slept is a long one, and includes cities and towns in England, France, Italy, Belgium, Scotland and the United States. A very interesting item. 385. MANUSCRIPT NOTE BOOK, written in 1884-5, con- taining a List of his works to that date, the amounts received both from serial and book publication of his works, list of projected writings and other interesting material. Writing on 21 pages and on the inside of covers. 4to, cardboard covers. 386. MANUSCRIPT NOTE BOOK written by Stevenson about 1884-5. Containing over 80 written pages. 4to, boards, cloth back. [1884-5] * Contains 10 poems as published in "A Child's Garden of Verses ' ' and about 50 unpublished poems or different versions of those published. There are, also, a poem in Scotch, "Go Little Book, ' ' To Bogue, Salad, etc. ; a portion of a dramatic poem, contents of some of his works, memories and childhood autobiography, copy of a letter, to the French commandant of police, conversations written during his illness, an unpublished dedication, a page containing 14 of Stevenson's signatures, numerous pencil drawings, etc., etc. TWO UNPUBLISHED STORIES. 387. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of two unpublished stories by Stevenson : ' ' The Story of a Recluse. ' ' 7 pages ; and "The Enchantress," being the adventures of a penniless man and a rich heiress in a foreign country. 27 pp. ; also the first outline draft of "The Brothers" (or The Master of Ballantrae). With a few pencil sketches. 41 manuscript pp. in one volume, small 4to. 44 388. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ODE, "To Mrs. E. F. Strickland," with his autograph signature in full, 17 lines, dated April 2nd, 1886; also 7 lines of verse. 2 pp. small 4to. Unpublished. * With several cancellations and additions by the author. Eeading in pait: ' ' The freedom and the joy of days ^ When health was with us still, The pleasure of green woods and ways And of the breathing hill: These that so dear a value set Upon the times of yore, We may remember, may forget We must enjoy no more." 389. MANUSCRIPT OP AN UNFINISHED STORY, with the title : " The Squaw Man. ' ' 6 pages, folio. Unpublished. * Chapter one and the beginning of the second chapter of a romance of the western country and the Indians. The first chapter is headed: "Three columns of smoke." 390. MANUSCRIPT with the title: "Did Chuchu Sweat?" 2 pages, folio. Skerryvore, Bournemouth. Signed in full. * The article begins : ' ' The editor of the ' Century Magazine ' has brought under my notice, a pair of letters that have exer- cised me not a little." These letters criticised Stevenson for stating that the dog ' ' Ghuchu " in " Silverado Squatters ' ' was wet with sweat. Stevenson's answer to the criticism is ex- tremely biting. 391. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSE. 16 lines of verse jottings; also 4 lines of dialogue. 2 pp. folio. ""Evidently intended for use in "David Balfour," as two of the principal characters are mentioned by name. 392. NOTE BOOK containing 47 pages of Notes and Poems by R. L. Stevenson, written with pencil and in ink. 4to, wrappers. * There are numerous notes on the History of Scotland — a subject which attracted him all turough his life — and there are early drafts of poems, some of ^hich were afterwards included in his writings. Others of the poems are unfinished and prob- ably unpublished. 393. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of Two Unpublished Fables: "The Clocknraker" and "The Scientific Ape." Written on 9 folio sheets of ruled paper, in ink. * It was the author 's intention to publish these Fables with the collection of stories printed under that name, for he had the titles on his first draft of a table of contents; but for some reason they were left out. It may have been that Stevenson had difficulty in finding the moral. Each is a complete story, and a good one, but, although the author has written "Moral" at the bottom of each, the Moral is lacking. Written throughout by E. L. Stevenson, and contains numer- ous corrections and changes. 45 394. MANUSCRIPT NOTES or memorandums entitled "Sham Anecdotes." Being a collection of humorous stories intended for use in "Stevenson's Companion to the Cook- Book." 15 pp. in the autograph of R. L. Stevenson and the remainder either typewritten or in the autograph of Mrs. Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Together 24 pp. folio. 395. NOTE BOOK containing jottings in Prose and Verse. About 50 pages in pencil and ink, in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson. 4to, boards (piece cut from one cover). * A number of poems, finished and unfinished, some of which have been published. Among the published ones are: "To Sidney Colvin," "The Tropics Vanish," "The House of Tembinoka, ' ' etc. There is a list of proposed titles for ' ' Songs of Travel," "The Genesis of 'The Master of Ballantrae,' " a list of words in South Sea dialects, and other interesting material. MANUSCRIPT OF AN UNPUBLISHED POEM. 396. ALONG THE UNEVEN BEACH. Rough draft of a Poem, with this title, written on two pages of a double fools- cap sheet. On the back there are several sketches of ground plans for a house. " Although not a finished work this poem is interesting be- cause of its corrections and the insight it gives of Stevenson's method of working out an idea. 397. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSE, 77 lines; 1 verse of 10 lines and note of 15 lines in Samoan; some in pencil. 4 pp. folio. Unpublished. 398. EARLY MANUSCRIPT DRAFT of "Analytical Con- tents, ' ' for ' ' In the South Seas. " 2 pp. folio, in the autograph of Stevenson. * An early draft of the first part of the ' ' Contents, ' ' vary- ing somewhat from the published version. A MALAGA IN SAMOA. 399. JOURNAL OF A TRIP along the coast with Mr. Clarke (one of the London Society Missionaries), Lloyd Osbourne, who was to take photographs, Mr; Clarke 's daughter, and a number of natives. 20 pages, 12mo, dated Dee. 30 [1889] and Jan. 1, [1900]. It is headed "A Malaga in ■Samoa." * A very interesting and apparently unpublished account of native life; reading in part: "As they went they Icept up a scarce intermitted minstrelsy: now u, hymn in Samoan, now one of Southey's in Bnglish, now a mere jingle of Sampan rhymes, at which they would all laugh aloud like little children for its very silliness," etc. The MS. ends abruptly at page 20. 46 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF "THE WAIF WOMAN." ^ 400. COMPLETE MANUSCRIPT of an Icelandic Tale "The Waif Woman," written on 14 folio sheets, and con- taining many interesting corrections and changes. Entirely in the handwriting of the author. * It was Stevenson 's intention to publisli this story with "Island Nights Entertainments,'' but it was not included because of his wife's objections to it as not in keeping with the remainder of the stories, which were South Sea tales. In a letter to Sidney Oolvin, dated November 30, 1892, he mentions it as one of the collection to be included under that title, and Graham Balfour refers to it in the "Life" in con- nection with some of the fables as follows: "The reference to Odin perhaps is due to his reading of the Sagas, which led him to attempt a tale in the same style, called ' The Waif Woman. ' ' ' The tale remained unpublished until November 21, 1914, when it appeared in the December number of "Scribner's Magazine. ' ' 401. THE WAIF WOMAN. A Cue from a Saga. Type- written manuscript of a tale of Iceland. 25 pages, 4to. 402. MANUSCRIPT POEMS written in a quarto blank book, containing about 60 pages in the handwriting of Steven- son and several pages written by his mother. 4to, cloth. * Most of these poems appear to be unpublished, and all were written in his earlier years. One of them is dated Edinburgh, October, 1875. 403. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of Chapter I of "The Owl." All but six pages in Stevenson's autograph. There two drafts of some portions of the MS., four pages of matter in all having been rewritten. 15 pp. folio. Written in 1893. * After his last visit to Sydney, Stevenson began a short story for the "Illustrated London News." Having again read "Barbey d'Aurevilly" he found a topic for his new tale, which dealt with Brittany in 1793, and was to be called ' ' The Owl. ' ' The writer was not well and when the first chapter was completed he dropped the task, and never turned to it again. 404. ORIGINAL DRAFT of the Manuscript of his Poem, ' ' To My Wife. ' ' 32 lines, partly in pencil. 2 pp. folio. * Cancellations and corrections by the author. This manu- script contains 4 additional lines, with several lines and words different from the published version. 405. TYPEWRITTEN DRAFTS of 14 poems, with correc- tions and changes in Stevenson's autograph, including one with signature. The poems are all for "Underwoods. Book III." 19 pp. 4to. * The poems are : " The House of Tembinoka, " "To Dr. Hake" "The Woodman" (signed), "Evensong," "In Memoriam, E. H., "Winter," " To My Old Familiars, ''" To the Muse," " Unf orgotten— I, " " Unf orgotten— II, " "Madri- gale, " "To Music," and two others without titles. 47 AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OP "ST. IVES." 406. MANUSCRIPT of the first 14 chapters of "St. Ives," written by Stevenson on 95 pages of yellow paper of quarto size. * This manuscript appears to have been the one Irom which the early chapters of the book were published. It has quite- a number of changes and corrections and is entirely in Steven- son 's handwriting. The ' ' Contents ' ' carry the story down to chapter 16. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF A PORTION OF "THE "WRECKER." 407. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT in the handwriting of Stevenson, of Chapter XIX and a portion (about half) of Chapter XX of "The Wrecker." 22 pp. folio, numbered at the top from 15 to 36. * This is one of the "South Sea Yarns" which Stevenson planned in collaboration with his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, when living at Equator Town, in Apemama. The story is founded on the loss of the brigantine "Wandering Minstrel." The complete story first appeared in London in 1892. The above comprises the complete chapter, entitled "Travels of a Shyster;" also portion of the chapter — " Stalbridge-Le- Carthen." The manuscript is in Stevenson's own hand, and agrees throughout with the published version, though show- ing numerous corrections. 408. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of Random Memories: "Rosa Quo Locorum." Entirely in Stevenson's autograph. Drafted in 1894. 8 pp. 4to. * Written on his last trip to Australia, on the stationery of the Union Club, Sydney. Intended for a new series of essays for ' ' Scribner 's Magazine ; ' ' but first published, without the- author 's final revision, in the Edinburgh Edition of his works. MANUSCRIPT DRAFTS OF "WEIR OF HERMISTON." 409. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of the unfinished novel Weir of Hermiston. 68 pages of various sizes, mostly in the handwriting of the author. * With the exception of eight pages, written by Mrs. Strong, the manuscript is in the handwriting of R. L. Stevenson. It contains a pedigree of the Hermiston family and part of the- story as published. It is probable that a more finished draft was made by Mrs. Strong, to whom it was dictated. 48 THIRD SESSION. Wednesday Afternoon, January 27, 1915, at 2:30 o'clock 410. IMAP of the Samoa Islands. Published for the Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1880. Oblong folio, in an oak frame. 111. ;\IAP of ]\Iarc|ue,sas Islands. Detailed map of the Marquesas Islands, used by Stevenson during his voyages to those islands. 27 x 36 inches, rolled. 412. MARCHMONT (EARLS OF). A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont, in the Possession of Sir George Henry Rose, Illustrative of Events from 1685 to 1750. 3 vols. Svo, boards, uncut (backs cracked). * A few marginal notes. Lond. : Murray, 1831 413. .AlARRIOTT-WATSOX (H. B.). Diogenes of London and other Fantasies and Sketches. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1893 * With presentation inscription: "To B. L. Stevenson from an tdiliwivn admirer, H. B. Marriott-Watson, February, 1893." 414. MAUNDER (SAI\IUEL). The Biographical Treasury. Frontispiece. 16mo, cloth. Lond. 1882 * With the ' ' Skerryvore ' ' Book-plate of E. L. Stevenson, anil several references in his handwriting at the back. 415. MAYHEW (EDWARD). Dogs, Their Management. Illustreiiioiis. 12mo, pictorial boards (back chipped). Lond., n. d. *With Signature "H. L. Stevenson, 17 Heriot Bow, Edin- burgh," on dedication leaf. 416. aiBMORIAL Concerning The .Manner of Accompting for the Branches of these Customs and Excise in Scotland, which took Place there with the Union, and upon which the Agreements, in the fifteenth Article of the Union, were made. Small folio, sewed. n. p. [1718] 417. MERCURIALIS (HIEROXY^MUS). De arte gym- nastica libri sex. Engraved title, and lUDiicrous woodcuts and copperplates of athletic exercises, ivrcstling, etc. 4to, old calf (broken). Amstelodami, 1672 418. MEREDITH (GEORGE). A. L., in third person. 1 p. Svo. Box Hill, March 17, 1883. * To Mrs. Thomas Stevenson, reading in part as follows : "George Meredith begs Mrs. Stevenson to forward the en- closed letter to Louis, apologising for the trouble he gives." 49 419. MEREDITH (GEORGE). A. L. S., 8 pp. 8vo. Box Hill, Dorking, Oct. 10, 1884. To R. L. Stevenson. * Extremely interesting literary and personal letter, written to Stevenson on receipt from the latter of a copy of his ' ' Beau Austin, ' ' dedicated to himself. Eef erring to his own latest literary work: "My 'Diana' is out of hand, leaving her mother rather inanimate. Should you see the 'Fortnightly,' avoid the section under her title. Escott gives me Vut 18 pages in 8 numbers — for a 3 volumes novel; so the poor girl has had to be mutilated horrible, and one foresees the 'much to her advantage' of reviewers, who care less tluui the honest public for the consecutive in concrete matter." Eef erring to Stevenson's work; "A glance at the uncut pages of 'Beau Austin ' gives me promise of sedate humor. I should have protested against the name. The apposition of Beam Austin pains the mouthing . one has to say Beau Wastin, or else to make a pause bctwceen the appellative and the appella- tion. . . Tour letter has shaken me. I had the hope that you were improving in health. Pray let me hear of you from time to time, for my heart is with you . . . I have for five and thirty years addressed unwUlin.g listeners, and another half dozen will probably complete my term. . . . The nervous wear of composition has done mischief. . . . You and Mr. Henley are of course at liberty to do as you please about the Dedication. I am honored by your wish. I feel only that the choice of my name for this distinction, will do the book no good before the public. . . I read of your 'Prince Otto' to appear in Longman 's M. ; — a good report. ..." Refers also to continuing work on his own ' ' Gower TFoodseer, per- petual bather in morning." 420. MEREDITH (GEORGE). A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo, on mourning paper. Box Hill, Nov. 13, 1885. To R. L. Stevenson. * Critical letter on Stevenson's Prince Otto: "Another look at Prince Otto as you have exposed him. Oh! but he is too masterful in his limpness. 'Feel my }ieart,' says she. And he talks on crisply of business, — and is morally limp, and has been kept physically fasting. And you abstain from telling u,s that he does not feel her heart. . . . When did the aggregate of her charms affect him i/n a manner to make him lay hand on another woman's heart, and continue discoursing like a professional gentleman with client?" 421. MEREDITH (GEORGE). A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo, 4 Draycot Terrace, St. Ives, Cornwall, Aug. 29, 1887. To R. L. Stevenson. * Letter of condolence written to Stevenson shortly before leaving for America : "A word in great haste, for either Leslie Stephen marches us out over rocks numberless or the sea invites, and the pen of correspondence is shelved over the edge of Time. . . J. wish we could give you health without losing you. Since, however, you must go — to Oil the Niagara of your Powers, prithee, in Curling the golden lochs of your Renown, transmit me one day one of the papers. I read your monograph on your father — most worthily written. I sent you no common phrase of sympathy, sure that you would know my feelings for all things affecting you. My last little book of verses, furiously cudgelled by the Press, was forwarded to you. God bless you in all ways, ' ' etc. 50 422. MEREDITH (GEORGE). Emilia in England. First Edition. 3 vols. 8vo, original cloth (backs broken, blank stamp on title). Lond. 1864 * Presentation inscriptions on fly-leaf. 423. MEREDITH (GEORGE). The Shaving of Shagpat. An Arabian Entertainment. 12mo, boards (back missing, shaken). Lond. 1872 424. MICHAUD AND POUJOULAT. Nouvelle Collectioi; des Jlemoires pour servir A L'Histoire De Prance. Roya) Svo, half roan (worn and 1 signature loose). Paris, 1837 425. MILTON (JOHN). Paradise Lost: a Poem. [12th Edition, with an Account of the Author's Life.] Copper^ plates hy P Pourdrinicr. 16mo, sewed (lacks covers). Lond. 1725 426. MONTAIGNE (MICHAEL DE). All The Essays of ^Michael, Seigneur De Montaigne : with Notes and Quotations, and Account of the Author's Life. Made English by Charles Cotton. Svo, cloth (worn). Lond. 1869 Signature of E. L. Stevenson and marginal markiiigs and note in his handwriting; also his visiting card. 427. MONTEITH (ROBERT). An Theater of Mortality: or, a Further Collection of Funeral Inscriptions over Scot- land ; gathered from Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen (and other places). Small Svo, calf (title repaired). Edin. 1713 Second edition, with additions. 428. MULLER (JOHN YON). An Universal History. Translated from the German of John Von MuUer. 3 vols. Svo, half calf (broken and name on titles). Lond. 1818 429. MUSIC. South Sea Islands Song. Original Manu- script Score with Words and Music, entitled "Tahitian Himinio." Signed E. R. P., Tahiti, June, 1889. One page, 4to. 430. NICOLAI (JOHANNES). Disquisitio de nimbis anti- quorum, imaginibus Deorum, etc. With numerous copper- engravings. 12mo, old boards. [Giessje' Hessorum], 1699 * A very scarce and curious treatise dealing with the nim- bus of the ancients, used afterwards by the Christians for the heads of Christ, the Virgin and the Apostles. 431. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM, editio vulgata. 16mo, old calf (cracked and rubbed. Waterstained and lower margin of last leaf cut off). Lugduni: G. Rovillius, 1545 * Presentation copy, with autograph inscription, ' ' Thomoi Stevenson to Bobert Lewis Stevenson. Marseilles, 7 May, 1864." 432. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM, Theodoro Beza interprete. Svo, calf. (Last leaf mounted and slightly damaged in the upper part.) With autograph of Thomas Stevenson. Londini: Thomas Vautrollerius, 1587 51 433. ODD VOLUMES. Chambers' Encyclopaedia, lacking 1 vol.; Napier's War in the Peninsula. Vols. 1 and 2; Ency- clopedia Britannica. Vol. 2, etc. Together 13 vols., various sizes and bindings. 434. ODD VOLUMES. Meredith's Diana of the Cross- ways. Vols. 2 and 3 ; James ' Stories Reviewed. Vols. 2 and 3 ; Memoirs and Correspondence of Wellesley. Vols. 1 and 2 ; and others. Together 18 vols., various sizes and bindings. * Some of the volumes contain Stevenson 's book-plate. 435. ODD VOLUMES. Works of William Crawford. Vol. 2 ; Histoire des Ordres Eeligieux. Tome second ; Cele- brated Trials and Remarkable Cases. Vol. 4 ; and others. To- gether 22 vols., various sizes and bindings. * Many of the books have Stevenson's book-label or some other evidence that thej belonged to the Stevenson family. 436. OLD COUNTY ATLAS OF GREAT BRITAIN. Atlas containing 50 finely colored copperplate maps of the various counties and Islands of Great Britain. By Timoth. Plont. Polio, russia, gauffred edges (broken binding). [Amsterdam, 1650?] * A fine series of early maps showing the topography of tne various counties and islands of Great Britain. Inscriptions in Latin. 437. OLD FRENCH ATLAS. Atlas containing 3 colored charts of the Heavens and 72 colored copper-plate maps, in- cluding 5 maps of North and South America. By Brion de la Tour, S. Sanson, and others. Inscriptions in French. Large folio, half morocco (several maps torn into, and few with margins torn off). Paris, 1780-1784 438. PAJIPHLETS. A Candid and Impartial Discussion of the False Reasonings of two late Pieces. Lond. 1747 ; Margaret's Ghost, or the Libertine's Ship, n. p., n. d. An Essay on the Feudal Holdings of Scotland (no title) ; and others. Together 11 pieces, various sizes, paper (mainly im- perfect). 439. PAftlPHLETS. Alan Stevenson, a Sketch, by John Brown (3 copies) ; Mr. Gladstone and the Paper Duties, by two Midlothian Paper-Makers, 1885 ; Gioas Re Di Giuda, Vol- terra, 1869 ; Maggio Dedicato a Cleonte ed Isabella. Volterra, 1874 ; and 4 others. 10 pamphlets, 8vo and ISmo. 440. PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES, Acts, Minutes, etc. (of Scotland), including The Case of the Earl of Argyle, or An exact and full Account of his Trial, Escape, and Sentence; also A True and Exact Relation Of the Raising of the Siege of Vienna, And the Victory obtained over the Ottoman Army, 1683. Small folio, half roan (few pp. soiled). Edin. 1683-1715 5-2 441. PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES, Acts, Reports, Bills, Minutes, Proceedings of the House of Peers, Letters- and Speeches of the Queen to the Parliament of Scotland, Edin- burgh Gazettes, etc. 40 pieces bound in 1 vol. Small folio, half roan (worn, few pp. torn and stained). Edin. 1702-4 442. PATMORE (COVENTRY). The Unknown Eros. I.-XLVI. Small 4to, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1878 * Contains Stevenson 's book-label and a printed presentation slip. 443. PENN (WILLIAM). The Life of William Penn; with Selections from His Correspondence and Auto-Biog- raphy. By S. M. Janney. Portraits. 8vo, sheep (worn, some leaves water stained). Phila. 1852 444. PENN (WILLIAM). The Select Works of William Penn. 3 vols. 8vo, boards (worn). Lond. 1825 * With Book-plates of E. L. Stevenson. 445. PERTH (EARL OF). Reflections on the Jacobite Plot, In Answer to a Letter Directed To the Right Honourable the Earl of Perth, Governour to the Prince. 25 pp. 8vo, sewed (1 p. stained). Lond. 1701 446. PRAYER BOOK. The Book of Common Prayer. Small 8vo, calf (title torn). Cambridge, 1762 * With note in handwriting of Thomas Stevenson. PRINTS AND PORTRAITS. 447. ENGRAVED view of the Death of Captain Cook; another view of the same, being a photographic facsimile of the plate from the 8vo edition of "The Voyages." Both framed. 448. ENGRAVING. The Smokers. By G. P. Schmidt after Van Ostade. 4to, in a black wood frame. 449. ENGRAVINGS. A pair of architectural plates en- graved by Piranesi. Large folios in oak frames. 2 pieces. 450. ETCHING. View of a Country Estate; by A. W. Henley. In a curious cross-bar frame made of innumerable small pieces of cork. (One corner broken off.) 451. ILLUMINATED MOTTO. Hand colored. Brought to Vailima from Stevenson's home in Edinburgh. Oblong folio, in a gilt frame. 452. JAPANESE PRINT. A spirited view of Japanese warfare. 4to, in a black frame. Engraved portrait of Salome, ■with the head of John the Baptist. In oak frame. 2 pieces. * From Stevenson 's home in Edinburgh. 453. MEZZOTINTS. The Rat Catcher, and. The Spanish Beggar Boy. Engraved by P. Darve after the paintings by George Morland. Both folios, in black and gilt frames. 53 PRINTS AND FOUT'RAl'TS— Continued. 454. OLD DUTCH PRINTS. A Herder Driving his Flock, and, A Peasant and Wife "Washing Clothes at a Stream. Etchings si Berghem. iilm' impressions. Oblong folios, in gilt frames. 455. OLD ETCHING. Wild Boar and a Dog. Artist un- known. Copy of the same, reversed. Both in gilt frames. 456. PORTRAIT. Lewis Francis Roubiliac, Sculptor. Mezzotint engraving by David Martin. Three-quarter length, to left. Margins cut down. Folio, in a wooden frame. 457. PORTRAIT. James Watt. Engraved by C. Picart from the painting by Sir Wm. Beechey. Stipple. Half length. Folio, in a wooden and gilt frame. 458. PORTRAIT. John Rennie. Mezzotint engraving of a marble bust, by Reynolds. Folio, in a wooden and gilt frame. 459. PORTRAIT. John Robinson. Mezzotint engraving by C. Turner after the painting by H. Raeburn. Folio, in a wooden and gilt frame. * A fine impression. 460. PORTRAIT. The Most Noble Francis Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater, and Marquise of Brackley. Full length, with landscape background. 8vo, mounted to folio, in wooden and gilt frame. 461. PORTRAITS. Duke of Wellington, engraved by H. Meyer ; and, Lord Viscount Nelson, engraved by R. Cooper. Both foxed. Folio. In wooden and gilt frames. 462. QUARLES (FRANCIS). Enchiridion: containing Institutions Divine (and) Moral. Engraved portrait. Square 16mo, calf, gilt (rubbed). Lond. 1658, Reprinted by C. Baldwyn, 1822 * Laegb Paper Copy, reprinted from the First Edition. Small embossed stamp of Dr. Julius Eosenstirn, on title. With autograph inscription signed ' ' Emmie. ' ' 463. RAFFALD (ELIZABETH). The Experienced Eng- lish Housekeeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, House- keepers, Cooks, &c. Portrait and folding plates. 8vo, sheep (cover and one signature loose). Lond. 1799 464. RAY (JAMES). A History of the Rebellion, from its First Rise, in 1745, to its Total Suppression, 1746. Portrait. 16mo, sewed (covers loose). Lond. 1759 465. REID (ROBERT). Poems, Songs, and Sonnets. Portrait. Fiest Edition. 12mo, cloth, gilt edges. Paisley, 1894 * Presentation inscription: " B. L. Stevenson, Esq., with the Tcindest regards of the author." 54 466. RBNWICK (JAMES). The Life and Death of that Eminently Pious, Free and Faithful Minister and Martyr of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Renwick. ] 6mo, old calf (broken and feAv pp. soiled). Edin. 1724 * Signature of Thomas Stevenson and book-label of R. L. Stevenson. 467. REPRESENTATION of the State of the Church in North-Britain (A), as to Episcopacy and Liturgy; And of the Sufferings of the Orthodox and Regular Clergy, Prom the Enemies to Both. 8vo, sewed (name on title). Lond. 1718 468. RICHARDS (COLONEL W. H.). Text Book of Militarj' Topography. Folding maps and numemis illustra- tions. Svo, cloth. Lond. 1884 * With Book-plate of B. L. Stevenson. 469- RICHARDSON (SAMUEL). The Works of Richard- son, with a sketch of his Life and Writings by Rev. E. Mangin. 18 vols. 8vo, original boards, uncut (covers broken, volume 2 missing). Lond. 1811 * This set lacks a volume, but it contains many interesting pencil notes by Stevenson on the margins of 4 of the volumes. 470. ROBERTS (MORLBY). The Western Avernus, or Toil and Travel in furthest North America. Map. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1887 * Presentation copy, with inscription: "Apia 17.S.94. To Robert Louis Stevenson, from Morley Boberts." 471. ROBERTSON (ERIC S.). The Children of the Poets. An Anthology from English and American Writers of Three Centuries. Edited, with Introduction by B. S. Robertson. 16mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1886 472. ROBERTSON (MRS. HANNAH). The Life of Mrs. Robertson, Grand-daughter of Charles II. Written by Her- self. Svo, sewn, uncut (some pages stained, corners worn). Edin. 1792 473. ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. Goldsmith (Oliver). The Vicar of Wakefield: a Tale. With 24 finely colored plates hy Thomas Boivlandson. 8vo, original cloth, uncut (binding worn and some margins slightly soiled). Lond. : Ackermann, 1823 474. SAIMOAN NEWSPAPER. Le Fa'atonn, o le Kolone o Unaite Setete o Tutuila ma Manu'a. No. 1. Polio, sheets. Tutuila, Fagatogo, 1903 * First number issued, August, 1903. 475. The same. No. 2. Folio, sheets (small hole in first leaf) . Tutuila, Fagatogo, 1903 * The second number issued, Sept., 1903. 476. SCHILLER (FREDERICK). The Robbers. A Trag- edy Frontispiece. 8vo, wrappers, uncut (worn). Lond. 1800 * "With autograph signature of Thomas Stevenson. 55 477. SCOTCH ECHO To The English Legion (The) ; or, The Union in Danger, Prom The Principles of some Old and IModern Whigs in both Nations, about the Power of Parlia- ments. Small 4to, wrappers (back wrapper missing and foxed). Edin. 1707 478. SCOTCH PORTMANTEAU (THE). Opened at York. 16mo, half sheep (broken, writing on title). Lond. : M. Thrush, n. d. 479. SCOTLAND. Several Reports Presented to the House of Commons, By the Commissioners for Taking and Stating the Debts due and growing due to Scotland by Way of Equiva- lent; and other Pamphlets. Small folio, half roan (rubbed). Lond. 1718 480. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). The Waverley Novels. 26 vols. 12mo, cloth (bindings somewhat stained). N. Y., n. d. * The Eosslyn Edition, with Stevenson 's autograph signature in pencil on nine of the title pages. 481. SCRAP BOOK with souvenirs of European travel. Contains botanical specimens, water-color and pencil sketches of places visited. 4to, green stamped morocco, gilt edges. 482. SERMONS. Sermons and Discourses by Rev. John Brown, Rev. Patrick M'Farlan, Rev. David Dickson, Rev. John Ilunter, Angus Makellar, Rev. Lewis Balfour, Ralph Wardlaw, Rev. Alexander Duff, Rev. Alexander Munro, Rev. William Muir, Rev. John Sinclair, and others. 13 pamphlets bound in 1 vol. 8vo, half calf (back broken and 1 cover loose). Edin., Lond., etc., 1837-41 * Mostly Presentation Copies, with inscription in authors ' handwriting on titles; signatures on 3 titles of Lewis Balfour, grandfather of E. L. Stevenson, and note on fly-leaf in his handwriting, giving contents of vol. 483. SHARP (WILLIAM). Sonnets of this Century. PiEST Edition. 16mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1886 * Author's Autograph Inscription: "To Sobert Louis Stev- enson in slight acknowledgment of an irredeemable debt of pleasure, from William Sharp, Jan., '86." "With visiting card of E. L. Stevenson. 484. SIBBS (R.). The Soules Conflict with it selfe, and Victory over it selfe by Faith. Portrait inserted. 12mo, con- temporary stamped calf (worn and broken). Lond. 1658 * Thomas Stevenson 's copy, with his autograph signature on the title, and writing in an early hand on the fly-leaf, dated 1691. 485. SIBYLLINORUM Oraculorum libri VIII, grsece, addita interpretatione latina Sebastiani Castalionis. 8vo, contemporary vellum. Notes in an old hand. Autograph of Thomas Stevenson. Basileae, 1555 56 486. SIDNEY CASTLE, or the Sorrows of De Courey. A Novel by "The Author of Edmund, or The Child of the Castle." 2 vols. 16mo, calf (broken at hinges). Lond. 1792 * With visiting cards of E. I. Stevenson and Book-plates of Elizabeth Unsworth. 487. SIXCLAIE (SIR JOHN). The Statistical Account of Scotland, drawn up from the Cummications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes. 21 vols. 8vo, old half calf (bindings broken and otherwise damaged). Edin. 1791-99 * With Stevenson 's book-label in each vol. The signature of Eobert Stevenson, his grandfather, on the title-page of Vol. 1 ; that of his father, Thomas Stevenson, dated 1851, on a fly-leaf in Vol. 20, and MS. notes in the form of an index on the in- side of the back cover of each vol. by Thomas Stevenson. 488. SMITH (CAPT. JOHN). Works. 1608-1631. [The English Scholar's Library.] Edited by Edward Arber. Fold- ing maps and plates. Small 4to, boards, uncut (corner of one cover broken off) . Birmingham, 1884 * A republication of the author 's valuable historical works relating to America. 489. SMITH (HENRY). Foure Sermons preached by Maister Henry Smith. 12mo, no covers (half of 1 page torn out (blank), last leaf slightly torn, notes in a contemporary hand). Lond. 1609 490. SOME THOUGHTS Concerning The Malt Tax, Humbly offered to the Consideration of the landed Interest of Scotland. 27 pp. 16mo, sewed, uncut. n. p., n. d. 491. SOMERVILLE (ROBERT). General View of the Agriculture of East Lothian. From the papers of The Late Robert Somerville. Folding map. 8vo, half sheep (worn). * With marginal penoilings. Lond. 1805 492. SOUTER (DAVID). General View of the Agricul- ture of the County of Banif . Plates. 8vo, half calf (broken) . * With a few marginal pencibngs. Edin. 1812 493. SOUTHEY (ROBERT). The Life of Nelson. With 8 woodcuts by Geo. Cruikshank. 12mo, calf (rubbed, joints cracked). Lond. 1830 *With Thomas Stevenson's signature on the fly-leaf, dated 1830, and a marginal note in pencil on page 133 by E. L. Stevenson. 494 [SPENCE (THOMAS).] The Testamentary Duty of the Parliament of Scotland, With a View to the Treaty of Union Now on Foot, and considerably advanced betwixt The Two Kingdoms. 17 pp. small 4to, sewed (margins torn into, not affecting text) . Printed, in the Year 1707 57 495. SPENSER (EDMUND). The Poetical Works. En- graved title and frontispiece. 2 vols. 18mo, boards, uncut (broken and not perfect as to text). Lond. 1819 * Signature of David Stevenson, uncle of E. L. Stevenson, with inscription in Ms hand : ' ' Presented under some halluci- nation, by Alan Stevenson to David Stevenson." Signature of Alan Stevenson on covers. 496. SPINOSA (BENEDICT DE). The Life of Benedict De Spinosa. By John Colerus. 16nio, sheep (rubbed). Lond. 1706 497. STANHOPE (GEO.). Pious Breathings. Being the Meditations of St. Augustine, his Treatise of the Love of God, Soliloquies and Manual. To which are added Select Contem- plations from St. Anselm and St. Bernard. 4 plates. 8vo, calf (rubbed). Lond. 1728 * Thomas Stevenson's copy, with his autograph signature on the fly-leaf, dated 1858. 498. STEVENSON (ROBERT). Biographical Sketch of the late Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer. By Alan Steven- son. Read at the Royal Soc. of Edinburgh, Feb. 17, 1851, and now printed with a few additions. Portrait and plate. Small 4to, original cloth. Edin. 1861 * With Book-plate of E. L. Stevenson. On the brown fly- leaf is an inscription: "Eoliert Lewis Stevenson, In Me- moriam. ' ' 499. STEVENSON (R. L.). Notice of a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses. From the Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. Fiest Edition. 8vo, sewed. Edin. 1871 This Essay, to which was awarded the Society's Silver Medal, was read before the Society on March 27, 1871. Only a few copies (probably no more than 50) were issued separately, from the types of the Transactions, with the pagination altered, and a title-page added. 500. STEVENSON (R. L.). An Inland Voyage. Frontis- piece. 12mo, half calf, gilt (slightly rubbed). Lond. 1878 * First Edition of the Author 's First Book. On a fly-leaf Stevenson has made a note: "p. 106," and has marked a pas- sage on that page referring to death. 501. STEVENSON (R. L.). On the Thermal Influence of Forests. From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edin- burgh. 8vo, thin dark blue wrappers. Edin. 1873 * Second separate issue of the First Edition. 502. Another Copy. The same. 603. Another Copy. The same. 504. STEVENSON (R.L.). Deacon Brodie ; or, The Double Life: a Melodrama. By R. L. Stevenson and W. E. Henley. 8vo, wrappers. [Edin.] 1880 * Apparently a reprint of the First Edition, the text through- out being the same as that of the original issues, but on a lighter paper. 58 505. STEVENSON (R. L.). Deaeou Brodie; or, The Double Life: a Melodrama in Five Acts and Eight' Tableaux. By W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson. 8vo, original cream- colored wrappers, uncut (wrappers varnished and loose). Edin. 1888 * First Revised Edition, issued for Private Gireulatiou only. This edition was rearranged and partly rewritten by the authors, who added one Act; the first edition containing only four. 606. STEVENSON (R. L.). Testimonials in Favour of Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate. First Edition. 8vo, original wrappers. [Edin. 1881] * Issued by E. L. Stevenson, in a limited number, for circu- lation among the Electors of the University of Edinburgh, in support of his candidature for the Chair of History, an at- tempt which he himself afterwards characterized as "a mad thing. ' ' Contains letters from several distinguished men of the time, among them being J. A. Symonds, Andrew Lang and Edmund Gosse, and is essential to collectors of first editions of these authors. 507. STEVENSON (R. L.). New Arabian Nights. 12mo, pictorial glazed boards (shaken). Lond. 1884 * Stevenson 's visiting card pasted over title ; his autograph notes on fly-leaf, and two drafts of poems on the back of the title and dedication leaf. One of the poems reads in part: ' ' Talce you this volume in your hands To lead you into other lands, For lo! (as children tell) suppose Tou found iehind the garden rows Or in the lumbered attic, or The cellars, a nail studded door And darJc- descending stairway found, That led to Kingdoms underground; The places where Aladdin played. The coasts where Sindhad came to trade," etc., etc. 508. HENLEY (W. E.) and STEVENSON (R. L.). Beau Austin. A Play in Four Acts. First Edition. 12mo, original wrappers. Edin. : For private circulation only, 1884 * With the autograph of Stevenson's mother on the title-page. 509. HENLEY (W. E.). and STEVENSON (R. L.). Maeaire. A Melodramatic Farce in Three Acts. 12mo, origi- nal wrappers, uncut. Edin. : Printed for private circulation only, 1885 * First Edition. Scarce. The initials of W. E. H[enley] are on the front cover. ■510. STEVENSON (R. L.). A Child's Garden of Verses. First American Edition. 12mo, half cloth, gilt top, uncut. * With visiting card of R. L. Stevenson. N.Y. 1885 511. STEVENSON (R. L.). The Silverado Squatters. New Edition. 12mo, cloth. N. Y. 1886 * Fine copy. 59 512. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). The New Am- phion. Being the Book of the Edinburgh University Union Fancy Fair. Illustrations. 16mo, parchment, gilt, with ties. Edin. 1886 * Among the contributions is ' ' Some College Memories ' ' by Stevenson. 513. STEVENSON (R. L.). Prince Otto. A Romance. 12mo, boards (margins of some pp. stained). Lond. 1886 514. STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). Familiar Studies of Men and Books. 12mo, cloth. N. Y. 1887 * Stevenson's visiting card pasted in the front. 515. STEVENSON (R. L.). Father Damien: an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu from Robert Louis Stevenson. 8vo, wire stitched (title and last leaf loose). Sydney, 1890 * FiKST Edition. Scarce. Privately issued by the author for presentation among his friends. 516. 'STEVENSON (R. L.). The South Seas: a Record of Three Cruises. First Edition. 12mo, original red cloth. Edin. 1890 * Privately Printed Issue. Very Rare. Of this edition only 22 copies were printed for copyright purposes, and of this number 15 were cut up for distribution to the various newspapers in which it was published. This copy was sent by Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, and contains many cancellations and corrections in his handwriting. In a letter to Colvin dated August 11, 1894, he writes: "/ am strong for making a volume out of selections from the South t>ea letters; I read over again the King of Apemama, and it is good in spite of your teeth, and a real curiosity. . . . I wonder, couldn't you send out to me the first five Butaritari letters and the Low Archipelago ones," etc. 517. STEVENSON (R. L.). Unpublished Song by R. L. Stevenson, entitled "Poor Tin Tack," air "Poor Old Joe." 3 stanzas, with Chorus. Typewritten sheet, the first verse commencing: "When, where or how It matters not a damn." Small folio. * Apparently written by Stevenson after leaving California and while on his way to the South Sea Islands. 518. STEVENSON (R. L.). Plain John Wiltshire on the situation. Typewritten manuscript of an article on the situa- tion in Samoa, supposed to be told by John Wiltshire, the principal character in his story "The Beach of Falesa." 10 pages, 4to, stitched with cord ; inside a wrapper on which is written: "Plain John Wiltshire on the situation, by R. L. S. (Written for fun at Vailima)." Probably unpublished. 519. Another copy, the same as above. 60 520. STEVENSON (R. L.). A Letter to Mr. Stevenson's Friends (with a Prefatory Note by Lloyd Osbourne and a Poem by E. Gosse). First Edition. 16mo, wire stitched, uncut, unopened. [Samoa] 1894 * Issued for private circulation only; one of the copies on thin paper. 521. Another Copy. The same. ■522. WORKS of Robert Stevenson. Portrait. 26 vols. 8vo, sheets, uncut, enclosed in cardboard boxes (Volume 1 is in red levant morocco). Edin. 1894-98 * One or 4 Copies op the Edinburgh Edition on Japan paper. This is the copy printed for the author, and each volume has a page with the inscription printed on it : " Robert Louis Stevenson His Book. ' ' As the set is incomplete (lacking Vol- umes 2 and 7) it has been thought best to sell the volumes separately. 523. Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh. Bound in red levant morocco. 1894. 524. The Amateur Emigrant. 1895. 525. • New Arabian Nights. 1895. 626. • Familiar Studies of Men and Books. 1895. 527. Treasure Island. Map. 1895. 528. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Merry Men. 1895. 529. • The Black Arrow. 1895. 530. Virginibus Puerisque and Later Papers. 1895. 531. • Kidnapped. Map. 1895. 532. Catriona. Map. 1895. 533. Prince Otto. Frontispiece. 1895. 534. Child's Garden of Verses and Other Poems. 1896. 535. ■ • The Master of Ballantrae. 1896. 536. The Wrecker [with Lloyd Osbourne]. 2 vols. 1896. 637. ■ Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin , etc. Portrait. 1896. 538. Island Nights ; The Ebb Tide. 1896. 539. In the South Seas. 1896. 540. ■ Juvenilia and other Papers. Portrait. 1896. 541. John Nicholson; The Wrong Box; Fables. 1897. 542. Deacon Brodie and other plays 1897. 543. Vailima Letters. Portrait and facsimile. 1897. 544. A Footnote to History. Map. 1897. 545. Weir of Hermiston and other Fragments. 1897. 546. St. Ives. 1898. 547. . Miscellanea; Moral Emblems; Moral Tales. 1898. 61 548. STEVENSON (R. L.). An Object of Pity. Illus- trations in colors. 8vo, loose sheets, enclosed in a cardboard box. Edin. 1898 * One of 6 copies on Japan paper. The entire edition con- sisted of 25 copies, privately printed. 549. ORIGINAL PENCIL SKETCHES BY R. L. STEV- ENSON. 16 humorous figures on both sides of a folio sheet. Some retraced in ink. * Beneath one pair of figures, representing two old women with candles in their hands, Stevenson has written ' ' Mondes de Nuit. ' ' ■550. ORIGINAL WATER-COLOR CARICATURE. A scene in a court room, showing the members of the jury smok- ing and drinking, and in various other hilarious attitudes, the judge in the rostrum marked "Old Gowky's Sentry Box." Oblong 12mo, in gilt frame 12% x 10% inches. 551. ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING BY R. L. STEV- ENSON, with inscription: "Part of Tai-o-Hae." Showing the mountains as seen from the Bay. 4to. 552. ORIGINAL PENCIL SKETCH BY R. L. STEVEN- SON, with inscription: "The Prison, Tai-o-Hae." Showing the prison buildings on a hill at the foot of the mountains. 4to. 553. ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING BY R. L. STEV- ENSON, with inscription: "Hatiben: from the Sendim's Paipai." Small 4to. 554. ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY R. L. STEVENSON. Two small sketches of scenery in the South Sea Islands. One in ink, showing the "Entrance of Anaho Bay," and a pencil sketch of a mountain peak. 2 pieces, 12mo. 655. ORIGINAL PEN-AND-INK DRAWING BY R. L. STEVENSON. Three figures, — two women and a man, — reclining on a hill top. Probably designed for woodcut. Small 4to, unsigned. 556. BOYHOOD SKETCH-BOOK, with sketches and notes made by Stevenson while at Mentone and on subsequent travels on the continent in 1862 and '63. Oblong 12mo, boards. * Consists of about 80 pages, with character sketches, gro- tesque figures, views, plans, etc., on almost every page. There are about 12 views of houses, cathedrals, and chapels in and about Mentone and San Eemo, a landscape in water-colors, sketches of forts, soldiers on drill and in action, etc. 567. ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING BY R. L. STEV- ENSON. An old man, with stick and pack over his shoulder, walking along a country road. Designed for a woodcut. Oblbng 12mo. 63 558. ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING BY R. L. STEV- ENSON representing the Harding family dancing "to ap- pease the Bushrangers." With explanation on the back by Stevenson's mother, dated April 2, 1880. 4to sheet, with 8 figures. 559. PORCELAIN PLATE decorated by R. L. Stevenson. Carmine outline sketches depicting various periods in the career of "The Wandering Jew." Signed with initials and dated "Kingussie, 1882." Diameter 9 inches. 560. STEVENSON (R.L.). 23 sheets of mourning station- ery, with crest, used by Stevenson; with three envelopes for the same. 26 pieces. 561. INVITATION extended to R. L. Stevenson to become an honorary member of the Union Club of Sydney. Feb. 12, 1890; Receipt for £17/7/3, paid to the Advocates' Widows Fund by R. L. S. Dec. 3, 1880; Envelope addressed to him at Skerryvore ; and other items. Together 6 pieces. 562. STEVENSON (R.L.). Leather pencil case, with com- partments for seven pencils. Presumably carried by Steven- son on his South Sea Voyages. With label written by Mrs. Strong. 563. WRECKER (THE). Photograph of "Tin Jack," the original of Tommy Hadden in The Wrecker. Inscription to that effect at the bottom, signed by Mrs. Isobel Strong ; Ship 's Clearance Papers for the "Equator" on the trip which in- spired The Wrecker. June 24, 1889. Signed by Lloyd Osbourne for R. L. Stevenson, and by the Collector of the Port in Honolulu. 2 pieces. 664. UNIVERSITY CARDS, Etc. R. L. Stevenson's cards for University of Edinburgh courses in Philosophy, for the Conservative Club, etc. ; Certificate of attendance at lectures ; Tradesman's card, showing that he weighed 8 stones 1% pounds. 7 pieces. 665. UNIVERSITY CARDS used by Stevenson while a student at University of Edinburgh in 1872-73. 4 pieces. 566. UNIVERSITY CARD. Card of admission to the Uni- versity of Edinburgh, signed by Professor J. Lorimer. Session 1871-2. Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations. On the reverse is written: "Attended very regularly, did the work of the dept. well, & obtained the third place in honors. J. Lorimer." 567. ORDER BOOK used by R. L. Stevenson at Vailima for the delivery of Merchandise. Contains about 100 pages. Oblong 18mo, half cloth. * The front of each page is arranged to be filled out for goods, and signed. On the back is a printed list of instruc- tions, which reads in part: "Mr Stevenson will ie responsible for no goods obtained without Ms signed and dated order." The book was printed at Sydney. 63 568. SCRAP BOOK formed by Stevenson when a small boy. A 16mo, green morocco note book with numerous book- plates, small engraving's, printer's marks, monograms, etc., pasted in. On the first page the boy Stevenson has printed his name in ink, with the date below, 1861. 569. PHOTOGRAPHS. 6 photographs of Father Michael and reproductions of Marquesan dancing figures ; 2 reproduc- tions of Pompeiian frescoes. Together 8 pieces. * Three of the photographs are of Father Michael, the archi- tect of the church in Hatiheu, Marquesas Islands. Stevenson has considerable to say about Father Michael in ' ' The Wouth 570. PHOTOGRAPHS. Unmounted prints from photo- graphs taken in the South Seas. Included are photographs of Stevenson and members of his family, groups of mission- aries, natives, and pictures of island scenery. 15 pieces, some of which are faded. 571. RIFLE. Colt's repeating rifle, 44 calibre, 43 inches long. The finish of the barrel has been somewhat affected by the Samoan climate. 572. Another, the same. 673. ■ Another, the same. 574. ■ Another, the same. 575. Another, the same. 576. Another, the same. * In the description of Stevenson 's home at Vailinia Graham Balfour -writes: "At one side was a locked rack containing half-a-dozen Colt's rifles for the service of the family in case they should ever lie required." These rifles were acquired less than a year before Stevenson's death. He felt it was a neces- sary precaution to take in view of his political activities on the island, and the consequent ill feeling of the opposition. The guns had to be smuggled, as there was a law prohibiting their importation. 577. SPY-GLASS used by Stevenson in his South Sea Voyages. Length 26 inches extended, 8 inches closed, made by Yeates and Son of Dublin. 578. BAROMETER used by Stevenson during his South Sea Voyages. Brass, 5 inches in diameter, in a plush-lined leather case. 579. TRAVELER'S SHAVING LAMP. A Nickel-plated cylindrical case in three compartments, alcohol lamp, con- tainer for water, and cover with brush attached. Height 7 inches. Used by R. L. Stevenson in his travels. 580. COMPASS used by Stevenson on his South Sea Voy- ages, brass case, 2% inches in diameter. Somewhat demagnet- ized. 64 581. PHOTOGRAPH. A view taken on the grounds of Vailima. A native girl in a dress of leaves, standing in a, pool of water surrounded and overhung by tropical foliage. Folio, in a gilt frame. 582. STEVENSON (THOAIAS). Original Manuscript Journal in the handwriting of Thomas Stevenson, Father of R. L. Stevenson ; containing entries made by him in 1835 and 1836, relating to cost of construction of Ironwork, including details regarding a Steam Engine; also memoranda of agree- ment for Masonry work on the Butte Ship Canal, cost of con- struction, etc. 26 pages of manuscript in one vol. 8vo, russia. This is the Personal Memoranda Book kept by Thomas Stev- enson while in the employ of his father, Robert Stevenson,- and contains his autograph signature with date 1838, on fly- leaf. 583. STEVENSON (THOMAS— Father of R. L. Steven- son). Original Manuscript Journal, 1845, May 1 to May 23. 33 pages of manuscript in ink, of Scientific Observations, with pen-and-ink sketches illustrating some of the details of con- struction of various works which came under his observation. 4to, wrappers. * Contains a description of Belfast Loch and an old wharf ; the wrought iron bridge on the Dublin and Drogheda E.B. (which he describes as very ungainly and unyielding) ; descrip- tion of Kingston Harbour, the steam-boat pier and the atmos- pheric railroad; long description of the quarries of Penryhn (with plate inserted); description of the Cardiff docks, Holy- head Harbour, Howth Harbour and Aberystwith Harbour. 584. STEVENSON (THOMAS). Thomas Stevenson. (A Biographical Sketch.) By Prof. Swan. 8vo, wrappers. [Edin.] 1895 * Eeprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 585. STORMONTH (JAMES). A Dictionary of the Eng- lish Language. Library Edition. Thick royal 8vo, morocco (rubbed). ^ .,. „ Ediii. 1884 * Signature on title "Stevenson — Vmlima," printed with a pen. On a fly-leaf at thetack is an apparently unpublished Vail- ima prayer of 19 lines, in Stevenson's handwriting and of his composition, beginning: "Lord, behold us come before thee this night once more assembled; Iceep us %n our troubles, cor- rect us in our faults, give us to see so far as may be need- ful," etc. ■586 SUISTED (MRS. JAMES). From New Zealand to Norway 12mo, wrappers (slightly broken). Dunedin, 1894 * Presentation inscription : " To Mrs. Stevenson, ioith Undest regards # good wishes from the Autlwr," etc. 687 SULLY (DUKE OF). Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great. Newly translated from the French edition of M. de L Eeluse^ Map! 5 vols. 12mo, calf. . ^dm. 1773 * With visiting card of R. L. Stevenson m two vols.; auto- graph of John Jaffray on each title. 65 588. SWIFT (JONATHAN). Gulliver's Travels. Wood- cuts. Svo, cloth, gilt edges (back slightly torn and small stains on two leaves). Lond., n. d. * Some of the illustrations in the above volume have been colored by hand, the work in all likelihood having been done by R. L. Stevenson in his youthful days. 689. TAYLOR (HENRY). Philip Van Artevelde: a Dra- matic Romance. 12mo, cloth. Lond. 1883 * With visiting card of R. L. Stevenson. 590. TAYLOR (JER.). The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (and Holy Dying). Engraved title. 2 vols, in one, Svo, half calf (poor copy) . Lond. 1700 * With autograph note regarding the author, in the hand- vpriting of Thomas Stevenson. 591. TRIAL of James Stewart in Aucharn in Duror of Appin, etc. Svo, old half calf. Bdin. 1753 * On the fly-leaf is the signature ' ' T. Stevenson, ' ' and below, in the handwriting of B. L. Stevenson "written without any encouragement, in a booh belonging to Mobert Louis Stevenson." With the book-label of Stevenson. 592. TRIAL. Report of the Case; Paterson Against Shaw, For A Libel, by Imputing to the Pursuer False Play at Cards. Tried at Edinburgh, on the 7th of June, 1830. With an Appendix of Documents. Svo, sewed, uncut. Edin. 1830 693. TRIALS. Criminal Trials, Illustrative of The Tale Entitled "The Heart of Mid-Lothian," with A Prefatory Notice, including some Particulars of The Life of Captain John Porteous. Frontispiece. 12mo, half calf (plate water- stained, title repaired). Edin. 1818 594. VIEW of the Management of the Late Scotch Minis- try (A) ; With Respect to the Protestant Succession, Union, &c. 31 pp. small 4to, sewed (stain on title-page) . Lond. 1709 695. WARBURTON (ELIOT). Darien; or, the Merchant Prince. A Historical Romance. 3 vols. Svo, boards, cloth backs, uncut (signature cut from fly-leaves). Lond. 1852 596. WALKER (WILLIAM). Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina, sive Dictionarium Idiomaticum Anglo-Latinum. Engraved title. Small Svo, old calf (stained, corners cut). Lond. 1685 * A few notations and penciled passages. 597. WALTON (IZAAK) and COTTON (CHARLES). The Complete Angler. Edited by "Ephemera." Portrait, facsimile and illustrations. 12mo, cloth. Lond. 1859 * Autograph signature of E. L. Stevenson, May, 1870. 598. WELLINGTON (DUKE OP). The General Orders oi Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, in Portugal, Spain, and Prance, 1809-1814; In the Low Countries and France, 66 1815 ; and in France, Army of Occupation, 1816-1818. By- Lieut. Colonel Gurwood. 8vo, cloth (worn at hinges). Lond. 1837 * With Book-plate of E. L. Stevenson and marginal notes in his handwriting. 599. WHITMAN (WALT). Passage to India. First Edi- tion. 8vo, original green paper wrappers, uncut (loose, back missing, title slightly stained). Wash. 1871 * E. L. Stevenson 's copy, with his pencil markings and under- scorings. Contains the two poems of which Mrs. Stevenson writes: "I shall never forget Louis reading Walt Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly SocTcing,' followed iy '0 Captain, My Captain,' to a room full of people, some of whom had said that Whitman lacTced sentiment and tenderness. All alile, mere and women, sat spellbound during the reading, and I have never seen any audience so deeply moved." 600. [TOXGB (CHAELOTTE M.).] The History of Sir Thomas Thumb. First Edition. Illustrations. 8vo, cloth, gilt edges (rubbed and slightly foxed). Edin. 1855 ■ With autograph inscription- Mrs. Sellar. — Christmas 1855." "Lewis B. Stevenson, from 601. TOUATT (WILLIAM). The Dog. Illustrations. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1886 * With Book-plate of E. L. Stevenson. ^ To The Anderson Auction Con^pany. 284 Madison Avenue, New York. Please buy Tor me at your Auction Sale No. on.. _19.... the following lots at not exceeding the prices named, which are so much per Lot. 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It is consigned by Mrs. Salisbury Field of Santa Barbara, Calif., who inherited it from her mother, Mrs. R. L. Stevenson, on the death of the latter in February, 1914. Part I of the Collection, including Autograph 'Letters, Original ilanuscripts, Books, the Portrait by Sargent, the Medallion by Saint-Gaudens, and Curios from Stevenson's Library at Vailima, was sold in The Anderson Galleries November 23, 24, and 25, 1914, for $47,367.00. Part II, con- sisting mainly of books and curios, though some Manuscripts and Letters were included, was sold January 25, 26, and 27, 1915, for $19,127.95— a total for the two Parts of $66,494.95. With the exception of a very few books by Stevenson, this Part consists entirely of his Autograph Letters to his father and mother. At the time of the first sale a claim to the ownership of some of the Letters was made and they were withdrawn pending a judicial determination of the question. The court has now rejected the claim, and the Letters having been restored to Mrs. Field are now offered to the collectors of Stevensoniana. They comprise the first session of this sale. They are of very great interest. At the beginning of the Catalogue is a series of 22 letters and sketches which splen- didly illustrate Stevenson's physical and intellectual develop- ment from his sixth to his fifteenth year. They begin with his baby scrawl at two and his crudely printed signature at six. Then follow several written during the one term in which he attended boarding school; a few while he and his mother were in the South for their health; and finally those written during his student days at Torquay. They show his first attempts at prose, drama, dialogue, and verse; and are illustrated with many original pen-and-ink drawings. All of these except one are unpublished. Following these is a series of eight letters written at Frank- furt to his parents, giving vivid descriptions of the city and surrounding country, of the people and of many amusing incidents. Stevenson, at this time, desired to enter a German university, but his mother grew so nervous that he was obliged to abandon the plan. In July and August, however, he took lodgings at Frankfurt; he made short excursions about the neighborhood, and then joined his father and mother 'at Baden-Baden. Though hurriedly written, at times, these letters give many indications of the wonderful descriptive ability he afterwards developed. The remainder of the first session consists of Autograph Letters by Stevenson, also to his father and mother, covering a period of more than twenty years, beginning with a letter from Leven in July, 1868, and concluding with one written on the schooner "Equator," December 1, 1889, and a letter in the Samoan language, to a native chief, signed "Tusitala" and dated July 4, 1894. Among these letters will be found many of great interest from Wick, Menton, Barbizon, Paris, Nemours, London, Edinburgh, Gretz, Ware, Davos, Nice, Hyeres, and Bournemouth. With the exception of eight books by Stevenson at the end of the catalogue, the entire second session of the sale is devoted to Autograph Letters by him, addressed to his father and mother. This series begins with 1868 and concludes with a letter from Samoa dated December 4, 1893. There are letters from Wick, Edinburgh, Menton, Paris, London, Monte CarloJ Hampstead, Barbizon, Nemours, Monastier, and other places. Some are very short, others run into several pages, and ther« are occasional pen-and-ink drawings. Co \)is jFatftcr anl Jlotfeer BY THE LATE CONSIGNED BY THE OWNER OP SANTA BAKBAKA, CALIF. PAKT III FIRST SESSION Wednesday Afternoon, February 16, 19i6, at 2:30 o'clock LOTS 1-121 Throughout the descriptions of the autograph letters by Robert Louis Stevenson in this catalogue they are designated as "pub- lished" or "unpublished." These words should be understood to have the limited meaning that the letters appear or do not appear in the collection of Letters edited by Sidney Colvin. CHILDHOOD LETTERS. 1. BABY LBTTBE written by Eobert Louis Stevenson when he was two years old. It consists of a number of mean- ingless scrawls, with the signature "Smoutie" (his nickname), this last undoubtedly written with the assistance of his mother. A pressed flower is enclosed. In an envelope (stamp torn off), addressed to his father, in his mother's handwriting. 2. MRS. STEVENSON'S record of her son's conversation as a child of two, dated Dec. 30, 1852, with the heading "Re- marks for about % of an hour hy Mr. Smoutie." 3 pp. 12mo. 3. L. S., 3 pp. 16mo, dated in pencil in another hand August, 1856. Written by his nurse and signed in crude char- acters "Robert Lewis B. Stevenson." 4. A. L. S., 3 pp. 12mo [Spring Grove, Oct., 1863], to his ' ' Parients. ' ' Pen-and-ink sketch of ' ' Game of Dibbs ' ' on last page. * Gives a list of the occupants of "Burlington Lodge Acad- emy. Headmaster — Mr. Wyatt, Classical — Misses Beton and Hunter, French — M. Trautvetter, Parlour Boarders — MacJcen- zie, Yarlcer, Big Boys — Hepburn, Hume, M. Field, Midling Size — Bee, Swinton, Newberry, Stevenson, Balfour, F. Field. Small fry lots." 5. A. L. S., 3 pp. 12mo, Thursday [Spring Grove, October, 1863], to his parents, giving a description of the game of Dibbs, and a Dialogue between two instructors. With a pen- and-ink sketch of a "Cricket Match" on the fourth page. 6. A. L. S., 3 pp. 12mo, "Wednesday [Spring Grove, October, 1863], to his parents. * " I xoas playing at football. I have never played at CricTcet so Papa may comfort himself with that. ' ' Contains a dialogue between a schoolmate and himself and a pen-and-ink sketch of a football game on the fourth page. 7. A. L. S., 2 pp. 12mo [Spring Grove], October 15, 1863, to his father. * Tells of a school row which caused two of the boys to leave. ' ' Will you bring down my coins and ' The Young Voy- ageurs' and any other boolc you thinlc would suit," etc. 8. A. L. S., 3 pp. 12mo, Friday [Spring Grove, Oct., 1863], to his father. * Asking his father to keep a diary of the doings of his dog Coolins, and sending some specimens of his Latin exercises'. A significant sentence occurs in this letter, but the last two lines have been crossed and nearly blotted out, and it stops abruptly in the middle. ' ' I have done something ! I have made a grand step! I have appeared before the eyes of the public as an author but." This probably refers to "The School- boys ' Magazine, ' ' the first of the numerous magazines started by Stevenson. Pen-and-ink sketch of "The Walk" on the fourth page. 9. A. L. S., 2 pp. 12mo, October, 1863, to his mother, written while at the Burlington Lodge Academy at Spring Grove. Pen-and-ink sketch of a football game on last page. 10. A. L. S., 2 pp. 12mo, Nov. 12, 1863, to his mother. Written partly in French, but concluding in English: "My dear papa you told me to tell you whenever I was miserable. I do not feel well and I wish to get home. Do take me with you." Published. 11. A. L. S., 3 pp. 12mo, written in November or December, 1863, while at the boarding school at Spring Grove, to his mother at Mentone. 12. A. L. S., 3 pp. 12mo, Spring Grove, Dec, 1863, to his mother, asking about Mentone and telling of school life. "We are to begin examination on Monday." 6 13. A. L. S., 3 pp. 12mo, Sunday, Dec, 1863, to his mother, telling of the end of the term and of his desire to go to Men- tone. 14. A. L. S., 1 page 8vo, Craven Hotel, Sunday [Dec. 19, 1863], to his mother. * Tells of his leaving the boarding school at Spring Grove ■with his father. The last two pages contain an A. L. S. from his father, Thomas Stevenson. 15. A. L. S., one page 12mo, n. p., n. d., to his father. * Probably written in 1863, as it evidently refers to ' ' The Schoolboys' Magazine." "I am going to send Doctor Paul's story of Dr. Muir to the magazine (of course suppressing names)," etc. _ 16. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo and 24mo, Mentone, Feb., 1864, to his father, telling of their amusements at Mentone, and in- eluding an original enigma and a small water color sketch "Design for a Lady's brooch." _ 17. ORIGINAL pen-and-ink Sketch ' ' The Vaccination, historical painting," portraying "Cumviy, Jessie, Bottini, Mamma, B. S." With a pencil notation "Mentone, March, 1864." Signed twice "R. S. fecit." Also, a small sketch, vividly colored, of two negroes, about an inch and a half square. "With envelope addressed to Mrs. Stevenson. 3 pieces. 18. A. L. S., 1 page, 8vo, Mentone [March, 1863]. 19. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, Mentone, March, 1864, containing a ' ' Scene from The Unsociable Grosbeak, ' ' with a pen-and-ink sketch, and tales of their amusements at Mentone. On the last leaf are two pen-and-ink sketches, "Jessie falling down ter- races, a real incident," and "Mamma and Jessie tJiroiving themselves into violet beds." (See Frontispiece.) 20. A. L. S., 2 pp. 12mo, Glen Villa, Torquay [Feb.], 1865, to his father, lamenting that ]Miss Jessie Warden, his cousin, had not yet arrived. 21. A. L. S., 4 pp. 12mo, Torquay [February?], 1865, to his father. * Interesting letter, giving a description of his teachers and studies. "I can assure you that my hands are just as full as they can ie. Preparing till twelve, out till one, lunch, driving till three, French till four, preparing till five, Machrieieg from 6 1/2 to 7 1/2, and then I'm jolly tired," etc. 22. RHYjMING letter dictated by Stevenson at Tor- quay in March, 1865, to his mother; 3 pp. 12mo, in Mrs. Stevenson 's handwriting. * A statement at the top reads : " . . . Sent to several people. I have lost the first edition which was the iest, this one was sent to Gummy 's mother." 7 STEVENSON AT FRANKFURT. 23. A. L. S., 10 pp. 8vo, Frankfurt, July 28, 1872, to his mother, giving an account of his journey to Frankfurt, of the people he met, and his opinions of the city. Unpublished. 24. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo, Frankfurt, July 29, 1872, to his mother, telling of his progress in German, and amusing ad- ventures. Portions unpublished. 25. A. L., 6 pp. 8vo, Frankfurt, Aug. 1, 1872, to his mother, giving a description of a German inn, etc. Partly published. 26. A. L. S., 10 pp. 8vo, Frankfurt, Aug. 4, 1872, to his father. Portions unpublished. Fine letter describing his lodgings, a fire, etc. Small portion torn from last sheet. * " And so to sleep, despite fleas and fire-alarms and clocJcs chiming the liours out of neighboring houses at all sorts of odd times and with the most charming want of unanimity, ' ' etc. 27. A. L. S., 8 pp. 8vo, Frankfurt, Monday Morning [August 5, 1872], to his mother. Portions unpublished. * Interesting letter, continued on Tuesday morning, telling of his experience at the opera : ' ' Last night I was at the theatre and heard Die Judin (La Juive), and loas thereby terribly ex- cited. At last in the middle of the fifth act, which was per- fectly beastly, I had to slope. I could stand even seeing the cauldron with the sham fire beneath, and the two hateful exe- cutioners in red; but when at last the girl's courage breaks down, and, grasping her father's arms, she cries out — so shudderfully — I thought it high time to be out of that galdre. ' ' He also gives a description of the street on which he has taken rooms, etc. 28. A. L. S., 8 pp. 8vo, Tuesday evening [August 6, 1872], to his mother. Unpublished. * Contains a description of numerous German characters and places. "I have been quite convinced, bye the bye, by my stay here and far prefer the Germans to the French. I see in them almost everything that I liJced with a considerable super- structure of honesty and with enormous advantage of a fine physique. ... I have filled myself just as full of Ollendorf [author of a German text book] as I can hold. He is doubtless wholesome ; but I thinh he is best in homoeopathic doses. I hate Ollendorf. Ollendorf was an ass. . . . Germany has some objec- tions, two in particular, the language and the livin' wild beests of pray, ' ' etc. 29. A. L. S., 12 pp. 8vo, Frankfurt, August 9 [1872], to his mother. Unpublished. * Containing a description of his excursion to the village of Kriesheim, of the people he met, and of his purchase of a pipe. "Something English ahout the taste of the sheep, made my heart turn from cigars; and as I Tcnew that sooner or later I must buy a German pipe, I came to the conclusion that 'if it were to come, 'twere well that it come quickly' and ashed boldly where I could get hold of a 'Pfeife' . . . Almost the first head that I saw, was adorned with the picture of an old, white- haired man that facinated me like a serpent. I couldn't get past it. I had eyes for none other; for I had never seen any- thing that went more directly against all the better feelings of my nature. Morally and aesthetically, that old man and his portrait are two of the hatefulest things on earth. The white- headed scoundrel I feel convinced, must have waded Tcnee-deep, his whole life long, in innocent life-Hood spilt by treachery; and his face is enough to embitter a whole Decameron of dreams. Well, what did I do? The fascination was too strong, or my better angel was absent, or both perh.aps, for I bought HIM," etc. 30. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo, Frankfurt, Aug. 11 [1872], to his father, telling of money troubles and of his prospective visit to Leipzig. Unpublished. 31. THE SCHOOL BOYS MAGAZINE. No. 1. Contents. Page 1, The Adventures of Jan Van Steen ; Page 3, The Ghost Story; Page 6, The Wreckers. Greek Island or Adventures in the South Seas. 10 pp. ISmo; all in manuscript. Started ^t the Burlington Lodge Academy, Spring Grove, 1863. * The first of the numerous magazines started by Stevenson in his schoolboy days, and the only number of this magazine Tvhieh survives. It consists of four stories, all of which are "to be continued ' ' except ' ' The Ghost Story. ' ' Unpublished, except for a few quotations in Balfour's Life of Stevenson. Some of the stories were evidently composed as they were written in the magazine, for numerous erasures occur. The climax of "The Ghost Story" reads: "When they aioocTc they rubed their eyes and then looked about, the moment they saw the figure the;/ both Jumped out of bed and ran down stairs zohere after they had put on their boots they tooh to their hiels. ' ' STEVENSON TO HIS PAEENTS. 32. A. L. S., 4 pp. 12mo, Leven, Sunday evening [July < early ) , 18 68 ] . Unpublished. * Interesting, descriptive and chatty letter to his mother, "If I an to write the essay, I require Carlyle's 'Heroes and Hero-Worship' and that shortly; can you send it to me? The divers assistants all escaped unhurt: only one of the men is still unwell; but I hope, he too will recover," etc. 33. A. L. S., 6 pp. 12mo, Tuesday [Anstruther, July, 1868], to his mother. Unpublished. * Giving an account of some strolling players, etc. ' ' Tell Taper that his boat-builders are the most illiterate brutes with whom I ever had any dealing Can you find and send to me the last lines of Longfellow's Golden Legend, beginning, 'It is Lucifer, son of the air' and so on. 'Since God met him then, he is God's minister for some good end,' " etc. 34. A. L. S., 8 pp. 8vo, Wick, Sept. 3, 1868. Unpublished. * To his mother. Written soon after his arrival at Wick, whither he had gone to watch the progress of the harbor work by his father's firm, and in which he gives a characteristic account of his surroundings: "If D. Douglas Balfour Esq. is still loith you, you can tell him, for his delectation, that I pos- sess from my windows a monopoly of the ancient and fish-like smells of this charming locality. . . . My room . . . is adorned with pictures representing young ladies who have dressed them- selves with little care and ivhose Imbbillements (sic) are desert- ing them in a very elegant fashion, ' ' etc. 35. A. L. S., 6 pp. 8vo, Wick, Sept. 5, 1868. * To his mother, on receiving several letters and a copy of Aikman 's Annals of the Persecution in Scotland : ' ' This morn- ing I got a delightful haul: your letter of the fourth (surely- mis-dated) ; papa's of the same day; Virgil's BuooUos, very thankfully received; and Aikman's Annals, a precious and most acceptable donation, for which I tender my most ebullient tJianhsgivings . . . It contains more detailed accounts than any- thing I ever saw except Wodrow, without being so portentously tiresome and so Desperately overborne with footnotes, procla- mations, acts of Parliament ... 7 have been reading a good' deal of Herbert. He's a clever and a devout cove; but in places awfully twaddley . . . There is a drunken brute in the house ivho disturbed my rest last night . . . He's as bad again to-day; . . . I'll douse him with water if he malces a row," etc. For partial contents of this letter, see Colvin's Letters of Stevenson. 36. AUTOGRAPH LETTER, with an original poem of 28 lines on the reverse. 2 pp. folio. "Wick, Sept. 12, 1868. Un- published. * To his mother, and unsigned. It begins: "On the reverse- you will find an exact imitation of Pope: in spite of the in- trinsic diffloulty of the subject I have succeeded in preserving the pompous, empty and magniloquent rythm and language," etc. The remainder is full of nonsense, in keeping with the- poem, which begins : "¥e nymphs that haunt this barren coast around Walce, bring bays to elegiac sound. While, in unwilling and funereal verse The virtues I, of Fogue-O'nelle rehearse." 37. A. L. S., 12 pp. 8vo, Pulteney Hotel [Wick], Oct. 2, 1868, 11.30 p. M. Unpublished. * To his mother. An extremely interesting and characteristic letter, in which he dwells at length on the events of two moon- light excursions; with poetic flashes and Latin quotations: "Ha my prophetic soul! how true thou prophesied! or prophe- seedest ; but the latter is bad orthography and spoils the Alex- andrine . . . On Wednesday, the Mussels sent for me to come at eight. Wondering I loent . . . Norma and Lotta . . . Miss. Coxe, Adamiis et ego were to go a wallc . . . to the Old Man of Wide, a ruinous tower on a neck of butting cliff, with two roaring chasms of foam . . . I entertained Sara and the latter (Lotta) woman: Adamus Miss Coxe . . . We sat down outside the tower and watched the 'moon-chased shadows' fly across the wide white fields of foam. The latter (Lotta) who is very romantic . . . found her heart too full for words and retired to a far pinnacle ... 7 was much amused at Mrs. Eussel ... 7 was to put on her shawl . . . above all was she distressed over- a portion of Sara's attire, a garment called, I am told, a: p - 1 - c - 1, . . . I actually offered a guarantee for the safe re- turn of the said portion of attire." After giving an account of a moonlight row with David MacDonald, he writes : ' ' This: here letter has been intended to be very witty, very amusing^ very romantic, very entertaining in general. The only thing that broke dcnvn, was the gossip : I had an awful vision of parental frowns in awful anger bent," etc. The Bussels herein mentioned are the family of Sheriff Eussel,. with whom Stevenson became acquainted during his stay at. Wick. The old castle referred to is Aokergill Tower. 10 38. A. L. S., 2 pp. 12mo, Wick, June 17, 1869. To his mother. * Sends the compliments of Mrs. Eussel, who ' ' was out up at my looking ill — a thing I could not explain to her, as it was simply want of lunch. ' ' 39. A. L. S., 12 pp. folio. Earraid, Thursday, August 5th, 1870. Not published in full. * To his mother. Written on the Isle of Earraid, familiar to those who have read "Kidnapped" and "Memoirs of an Islet." There is a postscript to his father in regard to the lighthouse, and the letter is signed twice. The letter is full of very lively gossip about the Pleeming Jenkin family and others, and some of the frankest passages have been omitted in the published version. He writes of one: ' ' Their oldest toy is a disgusting, priggish, envious, diabolic- ally clever specimen. ' ' 40. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, n. d. * Humorous letter signed ' ' E. Stephenson, A. W. Henley, and W. E. Henley." Probably to his mother. 41. A. L. S., 1 p. 12mo, Skerryvore P. Q. London N. W. Bulgaria Schloss Platen, X. Y. Z. "With a design drawn around the motto "Ecce signum Porci. " n. d. * Humorous letter to an unknown person, reading in part : "I have little hesitation, in view of the premature demise of Dr. Shorthouse, Dr. Isaac Watts and Miss Hannah More, in directing your esteemed attention to the parlous case of Mr. Mallocl'. He, I have no douht, would undertaJce the sparlding romance you seem to hunger for," etc. 42. POETION of an A. L. S. mentioning that Bentley had agreed to his terms for writing a Life of Wm. Hazlitt; signed with initials; cut signature in full; scrap with "Ever your afft, hut perturbed son, B. L. S." All in Stevenson's hand- writing. 3 pieces. 43. LAST PAGES of an A. L. S. Edinburgh [1872]. 4 pp. 12mo. Signed twice. * "I am reading Herbert Spencer just noxu very hard. I got over the fingers at the Spec [club], the other night. I proposed 'Have we any authority for the inspiration of the New Testa- ment?' as a subject of debate; when I loas not seconded and Colin Macrae protested. The liberty of free speech is the great- est boon of this happy and glorio^is — happy and glorious — ever victorious — country of Pharisees and whiskey," etc. 44. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo, Chepstow Palace, Thursday [Oct. 1873]. Unpublished. * To his mother. In October, 1873, Stevenson went to Lon- don, but instead of taking the examination for one of the London Inns of Court, he was forced to see Dr. Andrew Clark, who ordered him to break with Edinburgh and spend his winter in a more soothing climate. In the above letter, written shortly before leaving for Mentone, he gives a list of his wants, in- cluding books from his library. Referring to his health he says: "I thought I was quite recovered but I got a little bad again this afternoon, so I suppose I am a little weak still . . . Both Mrs. Sitwell and the Vicar profess themselves sorry at the prospect of my leaving," etc. 11 45. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo, Thursday [November (early) 1873]. Unpublished. * To his mother. The first of November Stevenson vras or- dered south by his doctor and here tells of his journey: "I went through Nice to see Dr. Bennet and (seeing Doctors is fatal) I have hccn tired ever since ... 7 got into town [Men- tone] this afternoon as far as a hooTcsellers," etc. The letter also gives a sharp criticism on a review of John Stuart Mills. 46. A. L. S., 21/2 pp. 8vo [Menton], Wednesday [Nov., 1873]. Unpublished. * To his mother, reading in part: "I lead the life of a vege- table; I eat, I sleep, I sit in the sun, I read alas! nothing hut novels and newspapers ; and I write nothing but the necessities of correspondence. I have found myself much 'better since I gave up trying to walk and to work, and resigned myself to sitting in the sun and George Sand . . . I have the whole of her novels before me . . . Colvin writes to me that he is coming out in the second week of December. I shall probably join him. ' ' Refers to an address by Disraeli as ' ' brilliant, ' ' and to a controversy of his father 's as " no case for compromise. ' ' "// my father leaves out any word that he believes to be true, out of respect of persons, it is grossly culpable," etc. 47. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo [Menton], Sunday, Dec. 7 [1873]. Unpublished. * To his mother . Eeading in part as follows : " I had a capital lunch with Andrews's on Friday, and a pleasant talk after- wards, when Mr. Andrews . . . removed me to the Moggridges," where he mentions meeting Mrs. Romanes and her daughter, also Sir William and Lady Jardine, "so that I found myself surrounded by the Scotch," mentions also a lunch at Bardig- hera with Sam Argyl-Bates, and refers to his two days of pleasure: "I am somewhat paying the penalty of two days gluttonous and riotous living; having entirely busted my stomach up, ' ' etc. 48. A. L. S., 6 pp. 16mo, Menton, Jan. 14, '74. Unpublished. * To his mother. Eeading in part as follows : ' ' The name of the Bussian who puts me in mind of Jessie . . . is the Frincess Zasetsky. I do not know what Madame Garschine's title is." Regarding his fellow travellers at the hotel he says: "I like it infinitely better than the Savillon lot of horrid English. This is such a jolly mixture from the mildest milk and water English Clergyman's washed-out daughters to the somewhat roystering Tankeedom of Johnson;" later, addressing his mother he says; ' ' yes madame, you deserve all credit for your wisdom in the Bomances affair. I suppose it was Mrs. Logan who did it . . . Exercise a certain measure of discretion yourselves about send- ing books; of course don't let us go to the bankruptcy court." Mentions also Mrs. Sitwell and Mr. Dawson, with whom he became acquainted during his early stay at Menton. 49. A. L. S., 6 pp. 16mo, Jan. 26, 1874, to his mother. Un- published. * Interesting letter describing his life in Menton. ' ' What have I never mentioned Faul Bobinet, the French Fainter, to you? That is unaccountable. He is very nice. All yesterday afternoon I was up in his atelier, counselling him about his pictures. I was astonished to find that I gave very good advice; 12 when the experiment loas tried, the picture was often greatly- improved. He was full of gratitude, and I of vanity, before the seance was over You can find out for yourself how much I shall get for 'Roads'; £1 a page, carried out to the most scrupulous extent is the figure; so you can see how much it covers; it should he £3 odds I thinlc; perhaps nearly four." 50. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo [Menton, March 20, 1874], to his mother. Unpublished. * Divided into seven subject headings: "I. My Cloalc . . . still it is a fine thought for absent parents that their son possesses simply the geeatest vestment in Menton," etc. "II. Miss Jardine of Jardine Ball." Telling of a poorly ex- pressed remark lie had made. "III. About Spain." Did not think it likely that he would visit Spain. "IV. Money." . . . "I thinTc of all this money wasted in Tceeping up a structure that may never be worth it," etc. "V. Beads. A criticism on his article. "VI. Russian Prince," who had come to Menton. ' ' VII. Miscellaneous remarks. ' ' 61. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo [Menton], March 23, 74. Un- published. * To his mother, reading in part : ' ' You sometimes suffer it seems to me, from Falstaff's malady of not attending, and make it a point of honour to misapprehend me ... I have read one after another Waverley and the Fortunes of Nigel. It is difficult to believe they are by the same hand. Waverley is so poor and dull; the other so very strong and mature. King James is one of Scott's best hits;" mentions dining with Andrew Lang at Anglais, "and not infrequently I fail to sleep after such a festival." '52. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, Paris, April 19, 74. [Small para- graph published.] * To his mother. Describes the course of his recovery and' refers to his article in Macmillan 's Magazine on ' ' Ordered South, ' ' as follows : ' ' The paper in Macmillan is what I thought, felt, and saw during the first two months or six weeTcs at Menton; I don't thinh it particularly well written, but it interests me, because I mean it a great deal: it is scrupulously correct . . . I just noticed last night a curious example of how I had changed since I have been a little better; I burn tivo candles every night now; for long, I never lit but one, and when my eyes were too weary to read more I put even that out and sat in the darh," etc. 53. A. L. S., 3 pp. 8vo, Yacht Heron, off Glenelg [Aug.. 1874] . Unpublished. * To his mother. Written while on a yachting cruise with Sir Walter Simpson and T. Barclay in the Western Island of Soot- land, undertaken on account of the state of his health: "Here we are, my health is a miracle to man. I expose myself to rain . . . Also I eat brealcfast — I struggled against this because it gave me indigestion; but my appetite and the smell of the eggs in the morning were always too much for me; and now I have no more indigestion. Only I have forgotten how to write, how to thinTc and how to wash," etc. In a characteristic postscript he says: "Do you thinh you could mention to my father (casually you know) that Bayle's Dictionnaire Ristorique is a. very precious book to the student — ahem." Bayle's Dictionary is among his books. 13 54. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo, London, Dec. 6, '74. Unpublished. * To his mother, reading in part: "I have seen Irving 's Samlet, which is interesting (for it is really studied), but not good . . . once I meet Coventry Patmore, a rather worn, grim looMng man ... 7 saw Mrs. Judkins today; she is a nice body . . . Simpson dined at the Club with me . . . Marckheim was there, and Lang, and Appleton, and Thislton Dyer, and Clif- ford," etc. Across the top of the first page in the handwriting of Steven- son's mother is the fallowing note: "Mrs. Judlcins mentioned herein was Louis' nurse till he was 18 months old." 55. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo [Barbizou, Aug. 1875]. Unpublished. * To his mother, mentions the work of his cousin Eobert Stevenson: "Bob is very well indeed and has made great im- provement in his work. Simpson and I cannot see that anyone hereabout paints as well as he does: the only doubt is whether an English public would care about them. ' ' 66. A. L., signed twice with initials, 3 pp. 12mo, Edinburgh [Aug. 7, 1876], to his mother. Unpublished. * "... A man in Black's told Henley he thought Virg. Fuer. was 'a charming article,' but he couldn't help laughing at all this sage advice from a boy of eighteen. By the dog of Egypt, is not this maddening?" etc. 57. A. L., signed with initials, 4 pp. 12mo, London [August, 1876], to his mother. Unpublished. * " In 'Illustrated London News' and 'Graphic,' both for August ISth, are notices of Virg. Fuer. In the latter, I am once more taken for my editor! I think I have pleased the public this time! I propose the following questions in Nat'ral Sist'ry, with regard to the Edinburgh, 4' London Steamers. 1. Why is there always one votary of intemperance, and not two votaries ? . . . S. Why are all the rest of the ship 's company, without exception, so strangely sad, diiM, dismal, null, nugatory, nauseous and squeamish?" ete. 58. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo [France, 1877]. Unpublished. * To his mother, reading in part as follows: "I have been already (for) a paddle in a canoe . . . The first thing I do in the morning is to go down and look at the water: I find it does me good like u, medicine — a moral medicine; it acts directly on the soul, ' ' etc. Probably written during the early part of the year, while on a canoe trip with his friend Sir Walter Simpson. 59. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo [Nemours, Prance, Sept. 12, 1877]. Unpublished. * To his mother, reading in part : ' ' The tale of your most Balfourian excursion to Arran with its pitiful conclusion in the mire entertained me a great deal. I am reading Clarissa Harlowe with all the pleasure in the world . . . it is the cleverest book in some ways that can be imagined; and deals with so many absorbing problems from different points of view . . . you will receive a MS. from Leslie Stephen. Flease forward it, registered ; I dare not lose it, and he is in hopes I may be able to make some changes; he says it is original, interesting and well written, which is a pretty big mouthful for L. Stephen," etc. 14 60. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, n. p. [Oct. 20, 1877]. Unpublished. * To his mother. Eefers to the Turkish defeat as follows: "I am so sorry about the Twldsh defeat in Asia, I feel as if I had lost personal prestige, I am so pleased with the Turlcs, and have taken them so much upon my shoulder. ' ' Probably written at Paris, on his way back to England. 61. A. L. S., 2 pp. Svo, Paris [February (early), 1878], to his parents. Unpublished. *". . . My book [An Inland Voyage] is being printed by Thome, Stiff, and Payne, among other people. Is not that appropriate for a neuralgic author?" etc, 62. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 4to [Paris, Feb. 17, 1878], to his mother. * This letter is misquoted in Balfour 's Life of Stevenson. The sentence, "/ have now been four days writing a — preface; four weary days," was transcribed, "I have now been four days writing a — preface, a weary preface. ' ' [For ' ' An In- land Voyage."] 63. A. L., signed with initials. 2 pp. 8vo [Paris, Feb. 21, 1878]. Partly unpublished. * To his father and mother, "My dear people." Fine literary letter, reading in part: "Do you know who is my favorite author just now? How are the mighty fallen! Anthony Trollope. I batten on him; he is so nearly wearying you, and yet he never does; or rather he never does, until he gets near the end, when he begins to wean you from him so that you're as pleased to be done with him as you thought you would be sorry ... 7 have just finished the 'Way of the World'; there is only one person in it, no, there are 3 — who are nice: the wild American woman, and two of the dissipated young men . . . But what a triumph is Lady Carbury! That is real, sound, strong, genuine work: the man who could do that if he had the courage, might have written a fine book," etc. 64. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo [Paris, Spring, 1878]. Unpublished. * To his mother. Refers to "An Inland Voyage," reading in part: "The preface is jolly; I felt so pleased I cannot tell you. Mueffer, editor of the New Quarterly was the fellow who wanted my work . . I can't think what may be wanted of me in London, 'An Inland Voyage.' " 05. A. N. S., 1 p. 8vo [Paris, June 22, 1878]. Unpublished. * To his mother. Eefers to his religious controversy with his father as follows: "I never had a moment of anger and under- standing all tlmt my father felt and meant. But I must be free to a certain point. ' ' 66. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo, Gretz [July 14, 1878], to his mother. Unpublished. * Describing the changes in Gretz, and closing with a refer- ence to "An Inland Voyage": " 'Tis thought the critics will slate me to death." 67. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo [Paris, early August, 1878], to his mother. Unpublished. * "7 rise before six, get to work at seven and work until eleven, when I breakfast; thence to about 3, I walk or saunter around; from 3 to S or 6, work again; 6, dinner; and to bed before nine. How's that for health and industry. I am getting on fast with Edinburgh," etc. 15 68. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 12mo [Monastier, about Sept. 22, 1878], to his mother, telling of his purchase of a donkey for his trip, and of his plans for the next month. Published. 69. A. N., signed with initials, 1 p. 12mo, Trappist Convent of Our Lady of the Snows [Sept. 28, 1878], to his mother. Telling of his progress during his "Travels with a Donkey." Unpublished. 70. A. L. S., 3 pp. 12mo, Ware, Nov. 12 [1878], to his mother. Unpublished. *". . . The world is not such a had place after all; only- there are cruel moments in it, when one wants all one's cowage to hold oneself together . . . The Edinburgh hoolc is to be out this month. I suppose nobody will buy it, because of the Bank failures. The public, true to themselves, steadily, stiffly, refuse to cotton to my works," etc. Mentions Whitman. 71. A. L., signed with initials, 3 pp. 8vo [London], Savile Club [Dec. 10, 1878]. Unpublished. * To his mother, regarding his relations with the Henleys and his work on ' ' Deacon Brodie, " reading in part : ' ' Nothing can describe the kindness and consideration shown me by both Senley and his wife. She is a pleasant creature a/nd all her ways are pleasantness. It is pleasant to see Senley in such luck; he is having his good things now. The Deacon marches . . . We are only beginning the second act in transcription, and there's a deal to be done yet," etc. 72. A. L. S., 2 pp. 12mo, London [July, 1879], to his mother. Unpublished. *" . . . My new book has sold 460-60 last week. The I. F. [Inland Voyage] has only sold 485 altogether. They hope to have a Snd edition of the Donkey . . . A German is going to traduce the Donkey. He o'ffered me half the dibis he got," etc. 73. A SMALL SCRAP of paper with three lines in the handwriting of Stevenson: "Pain and pleasure are wrapt about and smelted, into our lives: they are the iwarp atid woof of the universe," etc. 74. LAST page of an A. L. S. in which he refers to his work on Pepys, Mrs. Symonds, and the invalids at Davos. Signed with his initials. [Davos, Nov. 21, 1880.] 75. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo [Davos, Nov. 28, 1880']. Unpublished. * To "My dear people," reading in part: "I have read every day 100 pp. of Pepys. 100 or thereby pp. of Stewart's Highland Begts. and 1 pamphlet ... J find the Highlands will form a vast interesting affair; particular in later times," etc. 76. A. L., signed with initials, 3 pp. 8vo [Davos], Dec. 21, 1880. * To Ms father and mother, "My dear people." The verses mentioned, — to Dr. John Brown, the author of "Eab and His Friends, ' ' — were meant as a reply to a letter of congratulation on the "Inland Voyage." Beading in part: "About John 16 Brown, I liavc hcen hrailing my heart to finish a Scotch poem to him. Some of it i.v not reallii had, hut the re.it icill not conic, and I mean to get it right before I do amiUiing else . . Thanl-s for \jour notes; that fishery question will come in, as you notice, in the Bighland Bool; as well as under the Union ■ . . It seems to me very much as if I were aini/erly embark- ing on a History of Modern Scotland . . . The' effect on my mind of what I have read, has been to airalcn a livelier sym- pathy for the Irish . . I fear then have suffered many of the injusiices of the Scott isli Highlanders," etc. For further contents of this latter, see Colvin's Letters of Stevenson. 77. SIX PIECES cut from letters, 5 signed with his initials, one with the heading "Davos Printing Office, managed by Samuel Lloyd Osbouren & Co. The Chalet." 6 pieces. 78. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo [Hotel du Pavilion Henry IV., St. Germain-en-Laye], Sunday (May 1, 1881). * To his father and mother, ' ' My dear people, ' ' reading in part: "A week in Paris reduced me to the limpness and lacTc of appetite peculiar to a Kid-glove; and gave Fanny a jump- ing sore throat. It's my belief there is death in the kettle there; . . We come out here pitched on the Star and Garter . . . found the place a bed of lilacs and nightingales (1st time I ever heard one)," etc. This letter was written after a short stay in Paris, when, finding himself unpleasantly affected by the climate, he took refuge at St. Germain. 79. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo [Paris] , Hotel St. Eomain, ^May 12, '81. Unpublished. * To his father and mother, "My dear people." Gives his reason for having to stay in Paris and refers to the second edition of "An Inland Voyage;" reading in part: "we had to stay in Paris, even when in St. Germain, question of not being able to pay at either establishment . . . Do you see a cheap Inland Voyage announced at half a crown?" 80. A. L. S., 2 pp. narrow folio. Kinnaird Cottage, Pit- lorchy, Perthshire [June or July, 1881]. Unpublished. * To Professor Pleeming Jeukin. A very interesting letter on form in poetry, with illustrations of octosyllabics, which, he says, "is the only verse in ivhich I am very much inter- ested," etc. Mentions J. A. Symonds. 81. A, L., signed with initials, 4: pp. 8vo [Paris], "Un- known Cafe," Rue St. Honore, Eue des Pyramides, Tuesday [Oct. 13, 1881]. To his parents, on his way through Paris to Davos. Unpublished. * He mentions his application for the chair of Professor of Constitutional History at Edinburgh University, for which at this time, he was standing. Also, "All is right about Treasure Island, ' ' meaning by this that the inspiration which caused him to start the story, and which afterwards lagged, has returned. 82. A. L., signed with initials, 11/2 pp. 8vo, Davos [Oct. 20, 1881], to his parents, upon his arrival at Davos, telling the state of his health, etc. Unpublished. 17 83. A. L., signed with initials, 4 pp. 12mo, Davos Printing Office [Nov.? 1881]. * To his father, discussing the advisability of including "Pepys, " "Knox," and "Yoshida" in the collection which finally appeared under the title of "Familiar Studies of Men and Books." He also speaks of his intention of writing an article on "Burt, Boswell, Mrs. Grant and Scott." 84. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 12mo [Davos, Dec. 13, 1881]. To "my dear people." Saying that he has sent the Preface of "Familiar Studies of Men and Books" to Clarke, the printer of that work. Unpublished. 85. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, Davos, Dec. 13, 1881. Unpublished. * To his mother. Mentions the small sum paid to him for "Virginibus Puerisque. " "I only got £S0 for 'Virg. PuerJ' I could take Paul by the heard and IcnocTc Ms head against the wall." [Kegan Paul, the publisher.] Signed in full as follows: "Robert Louis Stevenson: Sis autograph, price Sd coloured and Id plain." 86. A. L. S., 2 pp. 12mo, Davos-Platz, Jan. 26th, 1881. [2] * To his father. Almost entirely about Treasure Island, of which he writes : ' ' You may be pleased to hear that I mean to re-write Treasure Id — in the whole latter part, lightening and siccating throughout. Any suggestions will be very wel- come: above all to know about parts you like would much help me, as I mean to cut down like a fiend. woodmam, spare yon tree, will be almost more necessary to me than notching the condemned," etc. 87. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 12mo [Davos, Feb., 1882] . To "My Bear people," to enclose two woodcuts done by him- self. 88. LAST PAGE of an A. L. S. signed in full, and written in a humorous vein. [Davos, March, 1882.] 89. A. L. S. (with initials), 2 pp. 12mo, Hotel and Pension Boul, Davos-Platz [Spring, 1882], to his father, discussing the later chapters of "Treasure Island." Unpublished. *"I own I do not agree with you about the later chapters, of T. Is. I think John Silver in Ms later developments about as good as anything in it. I should say about the best of it. So there is a hitch. ' ' 90. A. L., signed with initials, 3 pp. 8vo, Grand Hoifel, Nice, Jan. lOth [1883]. Unpublished. * Probably to his parents ; reading in part : ' ' Many thanks for the coins which came to hand duly . . . The weather is indescribable; u, vast, strident showerbath falling among the mist of ages, to a freezing wind. But I am better. All I wanted was to leave Saint Marcel, it seems . . . I went to one Doctor, diagnosed him for a farceur, went to another, got a good account, and now beg, with open mouth, to know what's wrong with me. . . . I begin to suspect nerves; but do nerves produce expectoration and blood in large quantities? Ques- tion. There seem to be ghastly finger posts, like so many gal- lowses, pointing Davoswards; but I'm sure Davos is death to Fanny, and besides its ruin. I must wait." 18 91. A. L. S, and Sketch, 3 pp. 8vo, Chalet la Sohtude, Hyeres, Var, May 1st [1883]. Unpublished. 2 pieces. * To his parents; reading in part: "I am mure than half through the draft of a story: Prince Otto; it is in twenty diapters. or so, and. I have drafted IS; in three leeelcs and a day. It n-ill tale longer to rewrite, I fancy; but altogether, as some of it ,s already revised, I believe I should finish it in the two months: ivhieh is good worlc. If I leep well, that is, as I trust I shall." Eefers to his health, ami says: "How ill I ivas, and how well I am! Row strange a Una,/ is man's life! His strength is not of himself, either to will or to do. A7id yet how lindly he is dealt with after all!" The Sketch is a sort of map of the Chalet la Solitude and grounds; -nith notes, in one of which he writes: "It is im- perrfcct. But the stairs may give you an idea." 92. A. L., signed "Trccsure Eilan," 2 pp. 8vo [Hyeres], Chalet la Solitude, :\lay 5th [1883] , to his parents. Published. *". . There has been offered for Treasure Island— how much do you suppose.^ I believe it tvould be an excellent jest to keep the answer till my next letter. For two cents I would do so. Shall I? Anyway I'll turn the page first. No — well— A hundred pounds. All alive, oh! A hundred jingling, tingling, golden, minted quid. Is not this wonderful? ..." Mentions, also, "A Child's Garden of Verses" and "Silverado Squat- ters." He adds a postscript: "It has been for me a Treasure Island verily." 93. A. L., signed with initials. 2 pp. 8yo, La Solitude, Hyeres-les-Palmiers, Var [May 19, 1883]. Unpublished. * To his parents. Written while at work on ' ' Prince Otto ' ' ; reading in part: "I Tceep well and worlc hard. S6 pp. of Otto ready for press; upwards of sixty drafted: I lilce it. I don't knotu what you will call it, but I believe you will like it in spite of your teeth. I believe I can at last do a story. I am kept as busy as I can and have mortal little time for any- thing, I can tell you." 94. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo, La Solitude, Hyeres-les-Palmiers, Var, June 15th, 1883. Unpublished. * To his father, reading in part: "I am worl:ing hard, without much difficulty ; but I can do little else. I find rather a despair at looking forward. To be condemned to produce till death do set me free, came upon me witli a horror; and I was nearly sick of my trade. Only the next moment, I re- membered if I had been in any other, I should most likely be able to do nothing at all; and this consoled me. I have got two editions, one at a dollar and one at ten pence, of the Arabian Nights, and a really handsome dollar edition of the Inland Voyage, sent to me from the States by semi-repentant publishers. . . . My mother will have to bring the review book; I pine for it." 95. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 4to, Grand Cafe Riche, Vichy, July 1st [1883]. Unpublished. * To his mother; reading in part: "Today we arrive at Vichy, and one glance — . . . Tomorrow we leave." Speaks of going to Clermont, or " Eoanne where there is a cheap and most luxurious inn — which draws one with cards. Either way, you will have to give us some more money as soon as may be." 19 96. A. L. S., 3 pp. 8vo, Royat, Saturday, August. 1883. (Little stained.) Unpublished. * To his father ; reading in part : " / have had and corrected all Treasure Island in sheets: it looks better so. If it is not already done add a few more soundings about the mouth of Capt. Kidd's anchorage and round the south eastern corner of the Island. The text leads them to be imagined. T. Id. will form a volume of pp. B9S, and will look very neat, I think." 97. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 12mo, Lyons, Aug. 30, 1883, to his parents. Unpublished. * " . . . / have just sent off the title-sheet of T. I., which only waits the map, ' ' etc. 98. A. L., signed with initials, 4 pp. 12nio [La Solitude], Dec. 20th, 1883, to his father. Published. "I have just finished reading a booTc which I counsel you above all things NOT to read; as it has made me very ill and would make you worse: Lockhart's Scott. It is worth read- ing, as all things are from time to time, that keep us nose to nose with fact, though I think such reading may be abused," etc. This is followed by a long "sermon" on the serious things of life. 99. A. L., signed "Doctor Stevenson," 6 pp. 8vo [La Soli- tude, Hyeres, April 19, 1884] . * To his father ; reading in part : "I made Miss Ferrier [sister of one of his most intimate friends of Edinburgh days] read us Thrawn Janet, and was quite bowled over by my 0W71 works. The Merry Men I mean to make much longer, with a zohole new denouement, not yet quite clear to me. The Story of a Lie I must rewrite entirely also, as it is too weak and ragged, yet is worth saving for the Admiral. Did I ever tell you that the Admiral was recognized in America? Has Davie never read Guy Mannering, Mob Hoy, or The Antiquary? All of which are worth three Waverleys. I think Kenilworth better than Waverley; Nigel, too; and Quentin Durward about as good. But it shows a true piece of insight to prefer Waverley, for it is different; and though not quite coherent, better worked in parts than almost any other: surely more carefully. It is undeniable that the love of the slap-dash and the shoddy grew upon Scott with success. Perhaps it does on many of us . . . However, I hold it, in Patrick Walker's phrase, for an 'old, eondemned, damnable error.' . . . those who avoid (or seek to avoid) Scott's facility are apt to be continually straining and torturing their style to get in more of life. And to many the extra significance does not redeem the strain." 100. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 12mo, Bournemouth, Sept. 28 [1884], to his parents. Published. * " ... The Henleys are gone and two plays practically done, ' ' etc. 101. A. L. S., 3 pp. 12mo, Bournemouth [Nov. 5, 1884] , to his father, replying to Mr. Stevenson's criticism of Admiral Guinea. Published. 20 102. A. L., sio-ned with initials, 2 pp. 8vo [Bournemoutli, Decemlier 15, 1884] . Unpublished. * To his mother. Mentions John S. Sargent, the Artist, who had licen painting his portrait, and W. E. Gladstone; reading m part: " Siir I weary for the heather' if not for the deer. . . David seems really to be going to succeed: lohich is a pleasant prospect on all sides. I am I believe floated financially ; a book that sells will be a pleasant novelty. I enclose another review; mighty complimentary and calculated to sell the book, too," etc. 33 116. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 12mo, Bournemouth [Sept. Ist, 1886], to his parents, concerning the ^Memoir of Jenkin he was then writing, and mentioning the visit of Auln-ey de Vere, the poet, to his house. Unpublished. 117. A. L., signed ^A-ith initials, 2 pp. 12mo [Bournemouth, Sept. 5, 1886], to his father. Small portion published. * "J get on ivitli Jenkin, and have just written a French (if you please!) story for u, Frenih Magazine: Heaven only Icnows irhat it's like, but they asked me to do it, and I was only too pleased to try," etc. 118. A. L., signed w\t\\ initials, 3 pp. 8yo, with mourning border [June 27, 1887]. Unpublished. * To his mother; reading in part: "We got your letter today and were vexed iy it. If you won't go to Amerikee, no more will we; which is rhyme and reason. B\it I think you will; and if you won 't, we must fine some other place. ' ' 119. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. small folio [Honolulu, June, 1889]. Unpublished. * To his motlier. Interesting letter in which he describes his visit to the Leper colony on the Island of Molokai, reading in part: "I can only tell you briefly that I was a week in the set- tlement, hag-ridden by horrid sights but really inspired with the sight of so much goodness in the helpers and so much courage and unconsciousness in the sick. . . . think of a game of croc[uet with seven little lepers. . . . I have seen sights to turn any man's hair white," etc. 120. A. L. S., signed with initials, 3 pp. folio. Schooner "Equator," at sea 240 miles from Samoa, Sunday, Dee. 1st, 1889. Unpublished. * To his mother. Written on his second trip in the South Seas, on the trading schooner ' ' Equator. ' ' At the time of writing he is returning from Samoa, and writes most interest- ingly about their life on board: "I wonder are you already so far out of key with the South Seas, that 79° at noon will seem warm to you? You should have seen the great coats out! I my.ielf wore two wool undershirts, a knitted waistcoat — the gift of the King of Apemama — and a flannel blaser." A fine letter, supplementing his ' ' In the South Seas. ' ' 121. A. L. in Samoan, signed "Tusitala," 1 p. folio, July 4, 1894. To ilalietoa ole Tupu o Samoa, the reigning king of the province of ilalie. * ' ' Tusitala ' ' was Stevenson 's Samoan name, meaning "Writer of Tales." 24 SECOND sessio:n^ Thursday Afternoon, February 17, I9I6, at 2:30 o'clock LOTS 122-248 This session contains the last of the literary property consigned to The Anderson Galleries by Mrs. Salisbury Field. STEVENSON TO HIS FATHER AND MOTHER. 123. PORTIONS of two autograph letters to his father, each signed " R. L. S." 2 pieces, 18mo. 123. A. L. S., 7 pp., 12nio, Anchor House, Sunday Even- ing [1867 or 1868], to his mother, telling of his journey and some of the people he met, and sending various mes- sages for his friends. 12-1. A. L. S., 1 p., 8vo, Office, Anstruther, July 17 [1868]. Unpublished. * To his father, written while at Anstruther, watching the progress of the harbor work by bis father's firm. Refers to an accident — "a truck went over and knocked in the diver's assistents (sic). Two men seem pretty severely hurt." 125. A. L. S , 3 pp., 12mo, Anstr[uther], Thursday July, 1868]. Unpublished. * Stevenson wrote in several different styles, and he copied, more or less, the patterns set by his father, mother, nurse, cousins, etc. The above letter expresses Stevenson's opinion of his father's handwriting. " ... It is as well t'was you that reproached me about the legibility of my hand and not the other parient : his last letter, though of commendable brevity, took me tivo hours to decipher finally ; verily he must have been hurried that day : such a second it has been seldom my fate to decipher." 126. FIRST AND LAST SHEETS of an A. L. S. to his mother, 8 pp., 12mo, Poulteney [Wick, Sept. 1868]. De- scribes the storms and his work. Portions published. 127. A. L. S., 4 pp., 8vo, Wick, Sept 1868. Unpublished. * To his father. Relative to his work on the harbor at Wick and his descending for the first time in a diver'ssuit : ' ' I think what you say about the diving is nonsense. I should only try in shallow water and if any effect were produced eoidd go out immediately : if all were right, should go in deeper, gradually. Besides if I don't get a shot at it, I lose great part of my idea, of the work. . What is the weight of a square foot of salt ivater f and how many lbs are there to a ton ? I think you had better not send that certificate of extra work till the cross wall is finished. Take care how you word it. . . . Would it not interest you and be of use in some future repor t to have the measurements and calculated weight of any stones which have been evidently moved by the sea;" regarding the creed of a Free Church minister he says: "Ah fie! what a creed ! " 25 128. A. L. S., 3 pp., 13mo, Wiek, Thursday, Sept. 1868- Portions unpublished. * A somewhat technical letter to his father, telling of his work. 129. A. L. S., 8 pp. 8vo. Wick, Sept. 11, 1868. Pub- lished. * To his mother. Gives a description of Wick and records his experiences as follows : "Certainly Wick in itself possesses no beauty ; bare, grey shores, grim, grey houses; not even the gleam of red tiles; . . . In Wick I have never heard any one greet hi» neighbour with the usual ' Fine day ' or ' Good morning ' . . . the streets are full of the Highland fishers, lubberly, stupid, incon- ceivably lazy and heavy to move. You bruise against them, tumble them over, elbow them against the -wall— all to no pur- pose ; they will not budge," etc. An early Portfolio paper " On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places," as well as the second part of the " Random Memories" essay, written by Stevenson twenty years later, refer to the same experiences as the above letter. 130. A. L. S., 8 pp. 8vo. Wick, Wednesday, Sept., 1868. Unpublished. * To his father and mother. The first two pages are written to his father and relate to the wrecking of the sea-wall at Anstruther, giving the reason for the same : ' 'It was that con- founded Billowness — hearting — so much sand, french chalk coagulated with water ! It is the very last stuff to put for heart- ing at any rate ; for it will crush to bits. I suppose it washed out from the open end ; and the sea exploded the Inner-wall. I fancy Adamson's face! Poor, poor, bankrupt Harbour-commis- sion ! I am glad the sea-icall stood, but I quake for it tonight," etc. The last six pages are written to his mother and give one of his characteristic sketches of a visit to Ackergill Tower, un- dertaken on the invitation of Mrs. Wemyss, of whom he says : " She has the prettiest little children I ever saw." Somewhat stained. 131. A. L. S. , 2 pp. 8vo. New Harbour Hotel, Saturday [Wick, Sept. 26, ]868]. Unpublished. * To his mother. For lack of news he sends her a Latin verse with the following translation " traductio in linguam vulgi; — Nothing have I for to say : In this my story doth begin : Nothing have I for to say : This my story endethin." Refers to his work at Wick — " I hope to get pole up today. . . . But 'tis the ivorkman's pleasure, ma'am, thai we have to attend on," etc. Somewhat stained. 132. A. L. S., 2^ pp. 8vo. Wick, Wednesday [Sept., 1868]. Unpublished. * To his father. Regarding fly-ropes and work on the Cross Wall of the harbor of Wick ; ' ' What is the use of these fly-ropes with bladders at 'em ? . . . MacDonald seems to think it wilt need four of the guys, but I consider that a piece of nonsense. Are these bladder-ropes merely for tightening the others ? if so, why the middle one ? . . . the cross wall gets on well," etc. 26 133. A. L. S., 8 pp. 12mo. Wick, Sept., 1868, Saturday, 10 A. M. To his mother. Interesting letter telling of the hardest manual labour he ever did: with three sketches. Published. 134. A. L. S., 4 pp. 16mo [Wick, September, 1868]. To his father, with a postscript signed with initials. Asks his father for some building directions and describes the rescue of a man who had fallen from some staging into the water. Published in part. 135. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo. Thursday' Night [Wick, Oct. 1, 1868]. Unpublished. ^ ^ i * To his father. Referring to trouble with the work on the Sea-Wall at Wick : ' ' The foreman joiner went to the revieio and by so doing prevented me. It ivas a perfectly calm day, and both poles might have been up by this time, I was aivfully angry. I stayed at the loorks and got everything ready for him in case he should . . appear on the afternoon shift. . . . It is a shamefully mismanaged work — nobody in charge, you know. If I ask a ivorkman to do anything (aye— or even MacDonald), O ! it can't be don. . . . We have had continual heavy sea here. . . The ivork has stood splendidly," etc. 136. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo. Pulteney Hotel (Wick, Oct. 6, 1868). Unpublished. * To his mother. On leaving Wick : " J come by land — leave to-night — shall be home about 'Saturday ," etc. 137. A. L. S., 30 pp. 4to. Lighthouse Steamer, Between Cantick and Hoy, Friday, June 18th, 1869. Unpublished. * To his mother. Remarkable piece of descriptive writing for a youth (Stevenson being 19 at this time), of a trip on the " Pharoe " to the Shetland Islands, With several original pen- and-ink sketches of different scenes. Beginning; " I herewith begin m.y journal letter, which is intended to contain an account, fidl, true and particular, of all my 'sore journeying and peril- ous peregrination.'" Describes the Cathedral of St. Magnus, at Kirkwall, founded in the 12th Century, and says; "I know nothing so suggestive of legend, so full of superstition, so stimu- _ lating to ivierd imagination, as the nooks and corners, and bye- ' uxiys of such a church as St. Magnus, in Kirkwall." 138. A. L. S., 18 pp. (should be 22) 4to [Lighthouse Steam'er, Between Cantick and Hoy]. Off Lerwick, Sundaj', June 20th, 1869. Unpublished. * To his mother. Journal letter written while taking a trip on the " Pharoe " to the Shetland Islands, and gives a descrip- tion of Lerwick, the principal town ; the inhabitants ; etc. With 2 original pen-and-ink sketches. Speaking of the sur- rounding country, he says; ''The whole place looks dreary and wretched; for here, nature, as Haiothorne wouldhave said, has not sufficient power to take back to herself what the idleness and absence of inan lias let go." 139. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo. Edinburgh, Chambers 84, George Street, June 27, 1870. To his mother. Unpublished. 140. A. L. S., 4 pp, 12mo. July 31, 1873. A humorous letter to his mother, with notes added at the end by Francis A. Sitwell, H. Sitwell and J. W. Wilson. Unpublished. 27 141. A. L. S., 4 pp. 13mo, Edinburgh, Aug. 5, 1873, to his mother. Unpublished. *"/ oion to the enormous advantages of Scotland, just as strongly as I hold to the opposite .... You will be amused to hear that I breakfast almost entirely on Porridge or Parrage or however it should be spelt ..." Mentions [first?] meeting Sidney Colvin. 142. A. L. S., 6 pp. 8vo [Menton], Monday, Dec. 1, 1873. Unpublished. *To his mother, giving a sketch of his daily life at Menton: ' ' I am not taking too little stimulant; I lind my allowance quite sufficient for me; but I do not make a fetish out of [Dr.] Clarks quantities and I exceed whenever I want to do so— not, I think, to my benefit ever." 143. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo [Mehton, Dec. 4, 1873]. Unpub- lished. * To his mother, whom he addresses as " Madame," in answer to a telegram regarding his health, reading in part: " I am not in the mood for writing . . , Sicily is, I think given up, and it is like enough that I may never get beyond the Riviera . . . Your telegram put my back up and 1 answered only by two words. I thought I had written quite often enough and once for all I shall let you knoiv if I am ill," etc. In a postscript to the above he says: " Wine seems to have no effect in strength- ening or exhillarating me. It's principal effect is to give me flushed cheeks and injected eyes." 144. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, with a postscript signed with initials. [Menton], Dec. 14, 1873, to his mother. Unpub- lished. * Mentions his improving health: "... O — if you can learn Wilson's address in Aberdeen, send him one of the papers and send me the address. Send Bisset a Thermal I. also." 145. A. L. S., 3 pp. 8vo, Monaco, Dec. 17, 1873, to his mother. Unpublished. * Writes of dining with Sir Charles Dilke, describes Monaco, and mentions his traveling companion, Sidney Colvin. 146. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo [Menton], March 1, 1874. Partly published. * To his mother. Reading in part : " Very interesting , I find Robertson; and Dugald Stewart's life of him a source of un- quenchable laughter. Dugald Stewart is not much better than McCrie, and puts me much in mind of him . . . How badly yours sincerely writes. O ! Mme. Zassetsky has a theory that ' Dunbarton Drums' is an epitome of my character and talents. She plays it, and goes Into ectasies over it, taking everybody to witness that each note, as she plays it, is the m.oral of Berec- chino. Berecchino is my stereotype name in the ivorld now. I am announced as M. Berecchino; a German hand-maiden came to the hotel, the other night, asking for M. Berecchino, said hand-maiden supposing in good faith that sich was my name." 147. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, Hotel St. Komain, Paris [April '6, 1874]. Unpublished. *To his mother. Mentions his cousin Robert and his own article on " Ordered South," which appeared in Macmillan's Magazine : "Bob seems to me to have improved very much in 38 his work . . there will he an article of mine in Maomillan for {I think) May; it's not very well done— not nearly as well as Moads—but I believe people find it interesting" "Roads" was published in The Portfolio, Nov., 1873, and was Stevenson's Hrst contribution to the periodical press. 148. A. L. S., 3 pp. 12mo, London, April 23, 1874, to his mother. Written on his return from Paris and the South, denj'ing that he had written " Prince Florestan,'' of which he was accused by the Dilkes. Unpublished. 149. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, Monte Carlo, Thursday fand Friday], 1874. Unpublished. * To his mother. Reading in part : " Colvin has gone ivalking to Mentone to cash draughts as we had become penniless. I am sitting on a seat on the low terrace at iJonte Carlo." He then goes on to describe the surroundings, mentions the Cara- biniers, of whom he says— " they are very likely payed by Blanc, and not by Charles Trois. . . Blanc employs a thou- sand persons at Monte Carlo. . . . Both the Kings of Monaco (Blanc and Charles Trois) have chateaux in Normandy." 150. A. L. S., 4 pp, 8vo, Hampstead, Friday [June, 1874]. Unpublished. *To his mother. Reading in part: "Hempstead is all my fancy painted it : it is so quiet, healthful and beautiful. . . . / like my club very much . . . it is not dear ; and one meets agreeable people. ... 7 keep very jolly. . . Bertie Sitwell has the measles. . . . There is rather a nice article of Colvin's in the Macmillan. Wicked Leslie Stephen is not going to pub- lish me for over two m.onths I fear," etc. During his stay at Hampstead, Stevenson spent most of his time in lodgings, with his friend Sidney Colvin, where he got the idea for part of his essay "Notes on the Movements of Young Children." 151. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo, signed with initials. Hampstead, Tuesday, June 16th, 1874. With A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, signed in full, written the following morning, and enclosed with the above. 2 pieces. Unpublished. * To his mother. Written after having had a jolly dinner with his father. Reading in part as follows: " Just home in a wet warm windy night from dining with father in town. . . we had a most sp-splendid dinner on real live turtle. . . . My father has evidently two ideas of London ; real live turtle with etc. as above and getting into a hansome and telling the chari- ateer to keep his back to the wind. . . You may conclude from my hysteric gaiety that we had champagne. . . . Wonder if you will think this letter funny — to me, it seems one of the 7nost humorous things on record, and now let me tell you, that I never wrote a letter in lower spirits in my life. . . . I close. The house will be reopiened, under distinguished patronage to- morrow morning. D. V., ivind and weather p)ermitting," etc. The next day he writes: " I come to my work more calmli/lthis morning." mentions Edith and G. A. Simcox and "a'^lass called Charlton." 152. A. L. S. , 4 pp. 8vo, signed with initials. Hampstead, June 20, 1874. Unpublished. *To his mother. Interesting letter, mentions, his own essay on "Lord Lytton,'' gives his opinion of the work of William Blake and refers to an evening with Andrew Lang. ^Reading. 29 partly as follows: " Morley gave me £5 for my Lord Lytton, by the loay^ which was more than I looked for. . . . Blake is not a piece of Mimbug as I was beginrdng almost to fancy. His designs are unspeakably interesting. There are little bits of landscape sometimes behind his figures that make one feel more as if that was how landscape should be painted than any- thing else, mere thin washes of colour, out of a child's first paint lore; but admirably complete and significant." His own essay mentioned in the above letter, was suggested to him by John Morley, editor, and published in the Fort- nightly Review, June, 1874. 153. A. L. S., 3 pp. 8vo, Hampstead [July 3, 1874]. Un- published. *To his motlier. Regarding news and what he has been doing, he writes to her in a questioning way, referring to a lunoh with Leslie Stephen and Hennessy. Regarding tlie latter he says : ' ' been to dine with Hennessy, a nice Yankee artist, lohose viife and sister in law, are descendants of old Cotton Mather and very nice women too, which is odd ? " etc 154. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo, July, 1874. Interesting letter to his mother, describing camp life. 155. A. L. S., 4 pp. 8vo [Hampstead, July, 1874]. Un- published. * To his mother. Reading in part: "I think I may be down on Sunday morning ; if not then, not before Tuesday evening : certainly before Thursday. . . J think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near here 'D. V. Thomas, Purveyor of pure new milk. ' Imagine anyone trusting to a man with so conditional a name for anything under heaven ! " 156. A, L. S., 3 pp. 12mo [London], Savile Club [July 18, 1874]. Unpublished. * To his mother. Refers to his plans for returning home as ' ' This is hypothetical, mind you, like my father's plans ; " regarding a proposed interview with Thomas Carlyle, which was frustrated by Mr. Stephen, who found the sage in one of his darker moods, Stevenson says: "lam done out of my Carlyle interview by a humourous enough circumstance ; " mentions a Miss Thackeray, who he says -'has a Jolly big mouth and is good humoured looking," etc. 157. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo (slightly torn), [Paris, March 29, 1875], to his mother. Writes of his arrival in Paris, criti- cises his cousin Bob's artistic work, and tells of Colvin's illness. Unpublished. 158. A. L. S., 2 pp. 13mo, Barbizon [April 2, 1875], to his mother. Unpublished. * "And in the forest it is still, and one can sit out. I shall make a nice article out of it I think." [Later Essays.] 159. A. L. Signed with initials, 4 pp. 12mo [London, April (?) 1875], to his mother. Unpublished. * "I have a nice note from Lang about Fontainehleau. Read Stephen's Macaulay. Lang's French ballads is neatly enough tickled off. Altogether a most enjoyable number of this esteemed serial, eh?" 30 160. A. L. Signed with initials, 2 pp. 16mo, Marlotte [April 7, 1875], to his mother. Unpublished. * " i have ridden over here from Barbizon to-day. . . I am in love with the forest and the life at Barbizon." 161. A. L. Signed with initials, 1 p. 8vo, Paris [April, 1875], to his mother. Unpublished. * " J ivish to see some classical tragedies at the Franfais and then {in a week or so) I shall go to London {I think— mind I never commit myself.)" 162. A. L. S., 1 p. 12mo, Paris [April 19, 1875]. Unpub- lished. * To his mother, on his arrival at Paris, where he had gone for a change. 163. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, Nemours [late July or early August, 1875], to his mother. Portions published. * " J have finished Ber anger and am on a walking tour with Simpson. " Describes Nemours. 164. A. L. S., 3 pp. 8vo, Barbizon [August, 1875], to his mother, telling of a trip to Grez and his walk home in a shower. Published. 165. A. L. Signed with initials, 3 pp. 12mo, Edinburgh [Aug. 12, 1876], to his mother, describing a trip in the neighborhood of Edinburgh and the people he visited. Unpublished. 166. A. L. Signed with initials, 4 pp. 12mo, London [Aug. 23, 1876], to his mother. Unpublished. * ' ' Look here, my fame is even more complete than I had dreamed of. Get the Spectator for August 5th and l:?th ; and you will see how the poor Spectatorists were puzzled and {Scottie) affronted at my paper." 167. A. L. S., 1-^ pp. 8vo, Chateau Revard, Soiret [Sep- tember, 1876]. Giving an account of the place and a description of a thunder storm. Unpublished. 168. A. L. S., 3 pp. 8vo, Pontoise [France], [Sept., 1876]. Unpublished. * To his mother. Written after the canoe trip with his friend Sir Walter Simpson which furnished the material for "An Inland Voyage." Refers to his father's correction of his proof and gives one of his characteristic sketches of the scenery ; reading partly as follows; " anent a proof of mine ; ivhioh he has carefully violated as usual. . . I have a considerable thirst for ' The Frangais ' and a toivn after all this mid tvork in the rain. . . . Work is my great passion, for the hour." 169. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, Paris [September, 1876], to his mother. Unpublished. * "J have only been twice to the theatre, I have been so busy reading and buying books ; and besides, ivhen a fellow is on the book hunt, he has not much money for such adventitious pleasures. ' But I shall go to-night to see Mercodet. Heaps of articles growing before me, hurray ! " 31 170. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, Paris [Oct. 11, 1876], to his mother. Unpublished. * " Yesterday I had a splendid day, Oaudes the sculptor, Lou and I; hours of very good talk in the French idiom. All after- noon in the Louvre till they turned us out unwilling. At night, the Franfais. Rome Vaincue, an impossible play, with Sarah Bernhardt as the blind grandmother, most sublime to behold." 171. A. L. S., 3 pp. Svo [Paris], 5 Rue Donay [Jan. 10, 1877]. Unpublished, * To his mother ; reading in part : "J am in a new quarter, and plane about in a liesurely (sic) way. I dine every day .... vyith a party of Americans, one Irishman and sometimes an English lady. . . . Bob (his cousin Robert) is in a great quan- dary about my father's picture. He has made a replica which he thinks in some ways scarce so good as the original," etc. 172. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. Bvo, Paris [January, 1877] , to his mother. Unpublished. *" London was simply an absurdity; it was hot, rained in- cessantly and was aiout acMe deep in a mixture of tar, soot, , train oil and other matters which we may here touch upon • '■ under the general and I think quite inoffensive term. In- 173. A. L., signed with initials, 4 pp. Svo, Paris [January, 1877], to his mother, giving a description of an old Jewish, lady. Unpublished. 174. A. L. S., 1 p. Svo [Nemours, France, Aug. 27, 1877]. Unpublished. * To his mother, while on a trip with his friend Sir Walter Simpson; mentions Commander Watts. 175. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo [Prance, probably Nemours, Sept., 1877]. Unpublished. * To his mother; reading in part: "I am anxious about the war: if you had been really a thoughtful mother, you might have sent me the detectives steadily by way of a serial novel," etc. 176. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo [Nemours, Prance, Sept. 22, 1877]. Unpublished. * To his mother ; written soon after the voyage with his friend Simpson had been postponed owing to financial matters. After giving his mother a new cure for influenza, he goes on to say : ' ' The M. S. is the best thing I have done in some ways. . . . My Au.itralian admirer has been coaching me up in in his Melbourne Review — not by name . . . this again is FAME." 177. A. L. S., 3 pp. Svo, Paris [October 10, 1877], to his father, describing the French elections. Unpublished. 178. A. L. S., 2 pp. Svo [Paris, Oct. 15, 1877]. Unpublished. * To his father and mother ; referring to the elections in Paris as follows: "I found two manifestos on the wall. One from a private person, editor of a radical journal, calling on the people to be calm. . . . The other a declaration of the Presi- dent, which made me so mad that I could have broken his head. . . . It was written, I firmly believe, with the intention of all the Republicans to extremities," etc. 33 l/.l A. L., signed with initials, 3 pp. 18mo, London [Jan- nary (latter part), 1878], to his mother. Unpublished. *"Kcc/an Paul wont let me go today as I had meant. He IS going to produce a booh of mine, and I have been all day at tKorl: xoith him on details." 180. A. L. S., 1 p. 12mo [Paris, Jan. 10, 1878], to his mother. Portion published. *yj have a half -order from Stephens for a novel: but I don t wish It spolen of, as it might brealc through. I am hard at work upon it." 181. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 8vo, Paris [February (early), 1878], to his mother, regarding his health Un- published. 182. A. L., signed with initials, 3 pp. 8vo [Paris, Feb., 1878] , to his mother. Portion published. *"I wonder on the whole, whether "Will and the Sire have, between them, at all changed your opinion — yours and father's — that I could never write a story?" 183. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 8vo, Paris [Feb. 12, 1878], to his mother. Unpublished. *"1S8 pages of my booh corrected. See if it's announced, won't you?" 184. A. L., signed -nith initials, 1 p. 8vo [Paris], Hotel Canterbiiry [Feb. 13, 1878]. Unpublished. * To his mother, referring to his first published book "7?!- land Voyage:" — "I am very much better; and the weather is now nice Summer also: Tceeps me improving. My boolc is al- most through the press. I enclose publisher's letter to amuse and make you vain. I am hard at work, ' ' etc. 185. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo [Paris, Feb. 25, 1878], to his mother. Portions published. * "7 still can make nothing of writing; but I am getting a lot of work ready in my mind; and as soon as I am able to square my elbows, I shall put it through my hands rapidly." 186. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo [Paris], Hotel du Val de Grace, Sunday [1878]. Partly unpublished. * To his mother. The criticism referred to in this letter, relates to "An Inland Voyage," reading in part: "7 was more surprised at th.e tone of the critics than I suppose anyone else. And the effect it has produced in me, is one of shame. If they liked that so much, I ought to have given them some- thing better, that's all." 187. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 4to [Paris, I\Iarch 10( ?), 1878], to his mother. Writes of his return to London. Unpulalished. 188. A. L. S., 4 pp. 16mo [Paris, about March, 1878], to his father, expressing his love and affection for his parents. Un- published. 33 189. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 16mo, Cernay la Ville [June, 1878]. Unpublished. * To his father, referring to "An Inland Voyage," "I am glad you like the hoolc so tvdl." 190. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo (torn at folds), Barbizon, July 15 [1878], to his father. Unpublished. *"I enclose another rcvietv. Fancy Eton masters setting my worTc as a classic to turn into Latin verse. It seems silly enough to me." 191. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, Monastier [August, 1878], to his mother. Unpublished. * " . . . It is hard enough to do my work, hut to work and to write letters seems more than I am up to." 192. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 8vo, Monastier, Sept. 8, 1878, to his mother. Unpublished. *"I sketch, I shoot with a revolver, I work, I take long walks; generally I have a good time; above all I am happy to meet none iut strangers; this pleases me greatly. In a little while I shall buy a donkey and set forth upon my travels to the south; another book ought to come of it." 193. A. L. S., 1 p. 12ma, Monastier [Sept., 1878], to his mother, describing Monastier. Unpublished. 194. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 8vo, Monastier [Sept., 1878], to his mother, describing the people. Unpublished. 195. A. L., signed "R. L. Steams," 2 pp. 12mo, Monastier [about Sept. 18, 1878], to his mother. Unpublished. *"You see Steams follows me; the additional is a refine- ment hereaway; but it is obviously something not unlike that, that must represent our name to a French ear. ' ' 196. A. L. S., 11/2 pp. 8vo [Paris, October, 1878], to his mother, telling of his visit to Hamerton, and Hamerton's opinion of "The Inland Voyage." Published. 197. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 8vo, Cernay la Ville [Oct. 18, 1878].. Unpublished. * To his mother. Eef ers to his two works ' ' Edinburgh : Picturesque Notes," just being published, and to the "New Arabian Nights," as follows: "The Edinburgh book is about through the press. I hope you will like what I say about Swanston. The Arabian Nights finished this week, I believe." 198. A. L. S., 2 pp. 12mo, London [Oct. 30, 1878], to his mother. Unpublished. *"/ am unofficially in London only known to 3 or 4, for purposes of work, and I do not go near the club. I am seeing Edin. through the press and generally doing and preparing much business. ' ' 199. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 8vo, Cambridge [Nov. 17, 1878], to his mother, tells of his resting quietly at Cam- .bridge and doing no work. Unpublished. (J4 200. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo [London, Nov. 22, 1878]. Unpublished. * To his mother, in answer to a letter of hers asking several questions, which he answers in the letter, in numerical order; one relating to his cousin Robert reading as follows: "Boh is at Cernay working very hard and I Relieve tetter in mind and hody," another, relating to the publishing of his own works, reads: "I don't want particularly to publish with St. Began myself. He has behaved so ill." 201. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, n. p., n. d. [1878] . Unpublished. * To his father and mother. Fine family letter, showing his affections for his parents; reading in part: "But do be- lieve that I love you with all my heart — that I think my father the dearest and most honourable of men — and my mother the cleverest and most loving of women." On the back of the letter in the handwriting of his mother is the following: ' ' This must have been written in 1878, when we were vexed by his staying so much away from home." 202. A. L., signed with initials, 3 pp. 8vo, London [early in May, 1879], to his mother. .Mentions Meredith and tells of the work he must do before July 1st. Unpublished. 203. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 12mo, Box Hill, Surray [May 12, 1879], to his mother. Unpublished. * " / am here alone with Meredith. . . . The booTc is out. I have given away all my copies and bought £S worth besides." 204. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p., 8vo [May 14, 1879], to his mother. Writes of Meredith, and his cousin Rob's; painting. Unpublished. 205. A. N., signed with initials, 1 p. 8vo [Paris, June, 1879], to his mother, announcing his return to London in 3; or 4 days. Unpublished. 206. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 16mo [Paris, June 19, 1879], to his mother. Unpublished. * "I am having such up-hill work. I sit and sit, and scribe and scribe, but cant get my back into it." 207. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 12mo, London [early in July, 1879], to bis mother, telling of his financial distress. Unpublished. 208. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 12mo, Savile Club [July, 1879]. Unpublished. * To his mother. 209. A. L., 3 pp. 8vo, Lond., October, 1880, to his parents, "I am terrified at this hotel; hut I hope tomorrow to get to Paris where I know liow to live cheap and well." 210. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 4to, Nov. 5, 1880; to his parents. Written on the way to Davos Platz, where he was ordered for his health. Unpublished. 35 211. A. L., signed with, initials, 3 pp. 8vo [Davos], Dee. 12 [1880], to his father, giving the outline of a Highland History which he intended to write. Published. 212. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 8vo, Barbizon [April 19, 1881], to his parents, telling of his health.. 213. A. L., signed with initials, ia pencil, 1 p. Bvo, Davos- Platz, Jan. 3 [1882]. To his mother, concerning his health. Unpublished. 214. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 4to [Davos], Saturday, March 25th, 1882. Unpublished. * To Ms father; reading in part: "Did you ever read Southey's Life of Wesley? I am reading it just now and am painfully impressed — I might say depressed. . . . Wesley is all tliat I dislike in a man; sordidly selfish, cane-ahle — all in the religious way. I cannot help seeing that I am a more amiable person than Wesley, whatever my faults; though perhaps even there I deceive myself. But the point is not that: the point is why was this person so good and I so had? . . . I have . . . great hopes of a livelihood, having really done a good deal this winter, and with a better chance of remuneration. ' ' 215. A. L. S., 3 pp. 8vo, Montpellier, Oct. 2, 1882. To his mother, speaking of his health and telling of his determination to leave Montpellier for Hyeres. Unpublished. 216. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo, Campagne Defli, St. Marcel, Banlieue de Marseille [October 21, 1882]. A por- tion published. * To his parents; reading in part: "/ have been two days in bed and two on the sofa with a hemorhage (I do wish I could spell that word) . . . The money came this morning. Many thanlcs. But do let it be circular- notes next time. . . . The tragic folly of my summers is at an end for me; twice have I gone home, and escaped with a flea in my ear; the third or fourth time, I should leave my bones with a general verdict of ' sarved him right for a fool.' " 217. A. L., signed witK initials, 3 pp. 8vo, Campagne Defli, St. Marcel, Banlieue de Marseille, November 13th., 1882. A portion unpublished. * To his mother, reading in part: "Fanny [his wife] was in bed — she begged I would not split upon her, she felt so guilty; but as I believe she is better this evening, and has a good chance to be right again in a day or two, I will disregard her orders. I do not go bacTc, but do not go forward — or not much. It is, in one way miserable — for I can do no worh; a very little wood-cutting, the newspapers, and a note about every two days to write, completely exhausts my surplus energy; even patience I have to cultivate with parcimony. I see if I could only get to worTc, that we could live here with comfort, almost with luxury. . . . Beautiful place, level-headed wife — considering one's sins, this is a great deal more than I have any right to. . . . Thirty two years now finished!" There is an original pen-and-ink sketch by Stevenson on half of one page. 36 218. A. L., signed "Ulysses," 3 pp. 8vo, St. Marcel, Mar- seille [January, 1883]. Unpublished. * To his parents; reading in part: "I came to the conclusion that it ivas impossihle lue should ever get clear here, and I am going to stay in a hotel in town until the anchor is weighed. . I hope to do very well at Marseille, where as you Mow I have ahvays felt better. . . . ll'hen once, we liave fairly got clear, we shall try Nice, Hy&res, Cannes, St. Raphael, moving along gently and then in May sometime go up to the Lake of Geneva where also, I learn there are possible climates and cheap houses and supplies. This is my forecast. ... 7 Iceep well, eating very hearty. Do not be surprised if I send and beg for money pretty soon. Can you get Gummy (his former nurse) to choose a suit 'Youth's 13s' at the same shop as before and send it off to Sam (Lloyd Osborne) who is 'coming through' at many breaches? How is Cummy? Give her my love. My father's umbra and penumbra are now household words. ' ' 219. A. L., signed with initials. 2 pp. 8vo [Nice, January 5,1883]. Unpublished. * To his mother; reading in part: "Please continue to ad- dress me at St. Marcel so that Fanny [his wife] may have a sight of the letters; but here I am at Nice. . . What a change from twenty years ago! The very river is bridged over, and gardens and casinos and the liTce occupy its place . . . gone wa^ the gardened court, gone of course all the travelling car- riages I used to play among with the little Italian girl and the little German boy. Only the Place Massina still has it arcades . . . and there is still the bastioned fort on the hill top over the old Mentone road, that I adored beyond any thing in stone and lime I ever saw. Twenty years: dear me, I am an old man for all the good I've done. I thinJc the change has done me a great deal of good, however. ... J stay mostly in bed, eat and drinh of the best I can find, and banish care with all my might. ' ' 220. A. L., signed with initials, 3 pp. 8vo, Marseille, Jan., 1883, to his parents. Line or two published. Tells of his health and their search for a healthy place. 221. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 8vo, Marseille [Feb. 1, 1883], to his parents. Unpublished. * " In eighteen hundred and three. America discovered me! I am Columbus outside in." "I seem to be a lind of a success now a days; I have cal- culated that my six boohs have brought me in upivards of six hundred pounds, ' ' etc. 222. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo, Hotel des lies d'Or, Hyeres les Palmiers, Var, March 3rd, 1883. Unpublished. published. * To his mother. A very interesting letter giving his rea- sons for dedicating "The Child's Garden of Roses" to Alison Cunningham, his former nurse; reading in part: "I stick to what I said about Cummy: which was that she loas the person entitled to the dedication; if I said she was the only person 37 who would understand, it was a fashion of spealcing; hut to Cummy the dedication is due because she has had the most trouble and the least thanks. Ecco! As for Auntie, she is my aunt, and she is a lady, and I am often decently civil to her, and I don't think I ever insulted her: four advantages that could not be alleged for Cummy. That was why, out of the three of you, I chose Cummy; and that is why I think I chose right. ' ' 223. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo, La Solitude, Hyeres-les-Palmiers, Var [September] 2'Otli [1883]. Unpub- lished. * To his parents, reading in part: "I have been much moved by the loss of dear Walter Ferrier. Henley very kindly, kept back the news of his state till the last moment, but the surprise was very painful. . . . Re had many beautiful traits; in many ways I admired him and in all I loved him: it is a touching retrospect. . . . I don't know that I am sorry; I would not for the world bring him back, if it were mine to choose; but I am mujch cut up. ' ' 224. A. L. S., 3 pp. 8vo, La Solitude, Hyeres-les-Palmiers, Var, Oct. 2nd, 1883. A portion unpublished. * To his father; reading in part: "This curious affair of Ferrier 's death has sent me back on our relation and my past with much unavailing wonder and regret. Truly, we are led by strange paths. A feeling of that which lacked with Ferrier and me, when we were lads together has put me upon a task which I hope will not be disliked by you: a sketch of some of the more obvious provinces and truths of life for the use of young men, and particularly of those who may be, in their youth entire unbelievers. The difficulty and delicacy of the task can- not be exaggerated. Sere is a fine opportunity to pray for me; that I may lead none into evil. I am shy of it; yet remember- ing how easy it would have been to help my dear Walter and me, had anyone gorie the right way about, spurs me to attempt it." In a postscript he says: "I was originally minded to have published this anonymously but I fancy this is not right. My name would help to sell it better than if it bore none: I will try to be honest, and then there can be no harm, I am assured; hut I say again: a fine opportunity to pray for me. — Lord, defend me from all idle conformity to please the face of man; from all display, to catch applause; from all bias of my own evil; bict help me to say strikingly what very many receive with profit. In the name of Christ. Amen." Prob- ably refers to '-'Lay Morals." 225. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo [La Solitude, December, 1883]. Unpublished. * To his mother; reading in part: "We have been in a ter- rible quandary as to Sam's (Lloyd Osborne) Christmas present ; and I have finally thought that nothing could he better or more useful than the 1st vol. of Chambers's Cyclopedia ; the present may thus he resumed and continued 'in our next' on subsequent solemnities." Asks if iodide cannot be changed or left out of a prescription, and says : ' ' ¥ou know, I once nearly died of a single dose of iodide of potassium, and my sufferings on that occasion I shall never forget. ' ' 38 226. A. L., signed with initials, 3 pp. 8vo [Bournemouth, October 29, 1884]. Unpublished. * To his father; reading in part: "We have ieen twice cheated out of a house— and today, we talce one at U a week. 1 his seems wild, hut cab-fares in hunting, and a week or two in a hotel, would soon have ingloriously eaten up the difference. As It IS the house is usually let for £6. 6; so we have it a bar- gain. . . . The house answers to the name of BonalUe Tower, Branksome Park." In a postscript, he says: "/ hove you have sent money." 227. A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, La Solitude, Hyeres-les-Palmiers, Var [1884]. Unpublished. * To his father; reading in part: " I am fairly well; still, I thmk, on the mend; but I recover strength only by degrees, and am still unfit for work." 228. A. L., signed with initials, 4 pp. 8vo [Bonallie Towers, Bournemouth], Jan. 14th, 1885. Portions unpublished. * To his father, after having, looked over proofs of a paper written by the latter, in connection with the Manchester Ship Canal Scheme, reading iii part; "I am glad you like the changes. 1 own I was pleased with my hand's darg ; ... 7 think it a very good paper; and I am vain enough to think I have materially helped to polish the diamxind. I ended by feeling quite proud of the paper, as if it had been mine; the next time you have as good a one, I will overhaul it for the wages of feeling as clever as I did when I had managed to understand and helped to set it clear." Eef erring to Thomas Ganlyle, he writes: "Yes, Carlyle was ashamed of himself as few men have been; and let all carpers look at what he did. He prepared all these papers for publication with his own hand; all his wife's complaints, all the evidence of his own misconduct: who else would have done so much? Is repentence, which God accepts, to have no avail with men? nor even with the dead? I have heard too much against the thrawn, di-scom- fortahle dog: dead he is, and we may be glad of it; but he was a better man than most of us, no less patently than he was a worse. To fill the world with whining is against all my views: I do not like impiety. But — but — there are two sides to all things, and the old scalded baby has his noble side." 229. A. L., signed with initials, 3 pp. 8vo [Bournemouth], January 29th, 1885. Unpublished. * To his father; reading in part: "It seems we have car- ried Skerry vore from the very teeth of a large crowd who were waiting for the sale; I believe Best was hard up for the moment. . . . The name {Skerry vore) is an admirable inspira- tion and I think will please Aunt Alan. ... J hear Metammeh is taken, which is a comfort: now, to have a dynamiter lynched, and all would be for the best in the best of possible worlds." 230. A. L. S., 2 pp. 8vo, Savile Club, 107, Piccadilly, W. [1885] . Unpublished. * To his mother, while visiting his friend, Sidney Colvin; reading in part: "Poor Babbington's (Prof. Churchill Babing- ton, who married a cousin) affair is indeed a trial of faith: I can well conceive it. I have so long since and so completely accepted this dispensation that I can swallow it; but only on the ground that we know nothing, and are nothing but cyphers in some majestic and unimaginable .total ; and even then it- is a hard case : and to our eyes, a cruel. ' ' 539 231. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 4to, in pencil [Skerry- vore], Dec. Sth, 1885. Unpublished. * To his father ; reading in part : ' ' Sorry to hear so poor an account of you. You must irace up a little in the wind's eye, as I am engaged in doing. I am not yet out of ied; hut though I am rather disjv^Mt, I have no very had symptoms." In a postscript, he says: "No extra charge for correct date." 232. A. L., signed "Hyde" (and) "Jekyll" by Stevenson, 2 pp. 8vo, Queen's Hotel, Birmingham [April 18, 1886]. Un- published. * To his mother ; reading in part : " / have arrived all right, and had an admirable meal at the Midland JSotel Derby. No sooner had I left than my former panic returned on me, and I nearly telegraphed from Derby to propose retreat. Con- sult the Nation. O for faith! The weather is warmer here but {by what my imagination suffers) more like the day of judgment than anything else." Ending: " (Bememier the nation is a ditto-ist, but still consult her)." Signed "I am Yours — (7 think) Hyde — (/ wish) Jekyll." 233. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8vo, with mourning border [June 7, 1887] . Unpublished. * To his mother, referring to his father 's death : "I feared you would feel badly when we left. There is but the one thing to be said: it is better with him. I wish you were here, I must say; I do not like your not being here, along with us, not that we can do anything, or even as well as Auntie; but merely from offlciousness, I think." Regarding a proposed visit to America : ' ' The more I consider the American scheme, the more it smiles on me." 234. A. L., signed with initials, 2 pp. 8v.o [London, June 9, 1886]. Unpublished. * To his father and mother, whom he addresses as ' ' Dear Young Folks. ' ' Written at the home of his intimate friend, Sidney Colvin ; refers to W. Henley — ' ' I have just seen W. Senley, who seems depressed but proposes to come down next week. . . . Colvin wants me to stay on till Monday. . . . I am just getting over the journey,"- etc. 235. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 12mo [Bournemouth, July 19, 1886], to his parents, telling of the death of his uncle David. Unpublished. • 236. A. L., signed Avith initials, 4 pp. 8vo [Skerryvore, Bournemouth, July 7, 1886] . All but small portion published. * To his parents; reading in part: "Alexander (John Alex- ander, the American artist) did a good thing of me at last; it looks like a mixture of an aztec idol, a lion, an Indian Bajah, and a woman; and certainly represents a mighty comic figure. Ffanny) and Sam (Lloyd Osborne) both think it is the best thing that has been done of me up to now. . . . you should hear him (Sam) o?i the penny whistle and me on the piano! Dear- powers, what a concerto! I now live entirely for the piano, he for the whistle; the neighbors, in a radius of a furlong and' a half are packing up in quest of brighter climes." Also men- 40 tions a proposed trip to Kirkmicliael, if lie was only well and says in a postscript: "Please say if you can afford to let us Tiave money for this trip, and if so, how much. I can see the year through, without help, I 'believe, and supposing my health to Tceep up; but can scarce mahe this change on my own metal. ' ' 237. A. L., signed with initials; in pencil, 2 pp. folio, 'Steamer Janet Niooll, April, 1890. To his mother, describing the ship and the ship's company, with a plan of part of the deck and cabins. Unpublished. * Stevenson left Sydney in the spring of this year, to try to recover from one of his numerous attacks of lung trouble. He accordingly embarked on the ' ' Janet NicoU ' ' which was bound on a trading trip among islands which he had not yet visited. It is the early stages of this voyage which he describes in the above. 238. A. L., signed with initials, 4 pp. 8vo, Vailima, Apia, Samoa [probably October, 1890]. Unpublished. * To his mother ; reading in part : ' ' Our life is a wonderful strife; we have such a job to Iceep awalce till it is thought decent to go to bed; and I cannot describe how I enjoy it. But it is a hard life; it will be better when you come, with food and a house and some service: now it is very, very in- teresting, but certainly rough. I cannot but be reminded of Uncle Bamsay when I go the round of my labourers every after- noon; but I set my hand to anything, for mind you, I have Samoans to deal with — and anyway I love the work. I love weeding even, but cleaning brush is heaven to me; and in moderation it does one good. Only in the future I shall have to heep out of the swamps; for I guess I do pick up fever there. ' ' 239. A. L., signed with initials, 1 p. 8vo [Dec. 4th, 1893]. Unpublished. * To his mother ; reading : "To the devil with this mail, it has come upon us so tlmt I have no time to do anything. When are you thinUng of coming home? We begin to think it high time. April or May should be your latest. ' ' 240 STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS). Copy of a letter by R. L. S. in poetry and prose, 4 pp. 4to, Boulogne sur Mer, Wed. 3rd or 4th Sept., 1872. * Possibly copied by Stevenson 's cousin ' ' Bob. ' ' STEVENSON'S BOOKS. (Each with the Vailima Book Label signed Isobel Strong.) 241 STEVENSON (R. L.). On the Thermal Influence of Forests. From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Bdm- burgh. 8vo, thin dark blue wrappers. Edinb. i»M * Second issue of the First Edition. 242. Another Copy. The same. 243. Another Copy. The same. 41 244. STEVENSON (R. L.). Testimonials in Favour of Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate. First Edition. 8vo, original wrappers. [Bdinb. 1881] * Issued by E. L. Stevenson, in a limited number, for circula- tion among the Electors of the University of Edinburgh, in support of his candidature for the Chair of History; an at- tempt, which, he himself afterwards characterised as "a mad thing. ' ' Contains Original Letters by several distinguished men of the time, among them being J. A. Symonds, Andrew Lang and Ed- mund Gosse, and is essential to collectors of First editions of these authors. 245. STEVENSON (R. L.). A Letter to Mr. Stevenson's Friends (with Prefatory Note by Lloyd Osboume and Poem by E. Gosse). First Edition. 16mo, wire stitched, uncut. [Samoa] 1894 * Issued for Private Circulation only; without imprint, but believed to have been printed at Samoa. One of a limited number on thick paper. 246. Another Copy. The same. 247. Another Copy. The same. 248. Another Copy. On thin paper. IS Ml M Jgit .Kl ' M WiWLK C •fitr ■tVf-flfih liVf JMr fifr Hmf ■flfr. 13 THE ANDERSON GALLERIES INC, THE ANDERSON AUCTION COMPANY MADISON AVENUE AT FORTIETH STREET NEW YORK EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF EDMOND DE GONCOURT [translated] CMy wish is that my Drawings, my Prints, my Curiosities, my Books — in a word these things of art which have been the joy of my life — shall not be consigned to the cold tomb of a museum, and sub' jected to the stupid glance of the careless passer'by; but I require that they shall all be dispersed \ander the hammer of the Auctioneer, so that the pleasure which the acquiring of each one of them has given me shall be given again, in each case, to some inheri' tor of my own tastes. SALE OF THE ROBERT HOE LIBRARY Part I. 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