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Title: Robert Louis Stevenson
a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial

Author: Alexander H. Japp

Release Date: May 5, 2007 [eBook #590]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON***

Transcribed from the Charles Scribner's Sons 1905 edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
A RECORD, AN ESTIMATE, AND A MEMORIAL

BY ALEXANDER H. JAPP, LL.D., F.R.S.E

AUTHOR OF "THOREAU: HIS LIFE AND AIMS"; "MEMOIR OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY";
"DE QUINCEY MEMORIALS," ETC., ETC.

WITH HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS FROM R. L. STEVENSON IN FACSIMILIE . .
.

SECOND EDITION

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
153-157 FIFTH AVENUE
1905

_Printed in Great Britain_.

{Robert Louis Stevenson, from a sketch in oils by Sir William B.
Richmond, K.G.B., R.A.: p0.jpg}

Dedicated to
C. A. LICHTENBERG, ESQ.
AND
Mrs LICHTENBERG,
OF VILLA MARGHERITA, TREVISO,
WITH MOST GRATEFUL REGARDS,

ALEXANDER H. JAPP.

19_th_ _December_ 1904.

PREFACE

A few words may here be allowed me to explain one or two points. First,
about the facsimile of last page of Preface to _Familiar Studies of Men
and Books_. Stevenson was in Davos when the greater portion of that work
went through the press. He felt so much the disadvantage of being there
in the circumstances (both himself and his wife ill) that he begged me to
read the proofs of the Preface for him. This illness has record in the
letter from him (pp. 28-29). The printers, of course, had directions to
send the copy and proofs of the Preface to me. Hence I am able now to
give this facsimile.

With regard to the letter at p. 19, of which facsimile is also given,
what Stevenson there meant is not the "three last" of that batch, but the
three last sent to me before--though that was an error on his part--he
only then sent two chapters, making the "eleven chapters now"--sent to me
by post.

Another point on which I might have dwelt and illustrated by many
instances is this, that though Stevenson was fond of hob