eaf of 'em.

SUGGESTIONS

IV. The procession--the child running behind it. The procession tailing
off through the gates of a cloudy city.

IX. _Foreign Lands._--This will, I think, want two plates--the child
climbing, his first glimpse over the garden wall, with what he sees--the
tree shooting higher and higher like the beanstalk, and the view
widening. The river slipping in. The road arriving in Fairyland.

X. _Windy Nights._--The child in bed listening--the horseman galloping.

XII. The child helplessly watching his ship--then he gets smaller, and
the doll joyfully comes alive--the pair landing on the island--the
ship's deck with the doll steering and the child firing the penny
cannon. Query two plates? The doll should never come properly alive.

XV. Building of the ship--storing her--Navigation--Tom's accident, the
other child paying no attention.

XXXI. _The Wind._--I sent you my notion of already.

XXXVII. _Foreign Children._--The foreign types dancing in a jing-a-ring,
with the English child pushing in the middle. The foreign children
looking at and showing each other marvels. The English child at the
leeside of a roast of beef. The English child sitting thinking with his
picture-books all round him, and the jing-a-ring of the foreign
children in miniature dancing over the picture-books.

XXXIX. Dear artist, can you do me that?

XLII. The child being started off--the bed sailing, curtains and all,
upon the sea--the child waking and finding himself at home; the corner
of toilette might be worked in to look like the pier.

XLVII. The lighted part of the room, to be carefully distinguished from
my child's dark hunting grounds. A shaded lamp.

R. L. S.

TO MRS. THOMAS STEVENSON

_Hotel des Iles d'Or, Hyeres, Var, March 2 [1883]._

MY DEAR MOTHER,--It must be at least a fortnight since we have had a
scratch of a pen from you; and if it had not been for Cummy's letter, I
should have feared you were worse again: as it is, I hope we shall hear
from you to-day or to-morrow at latest.

_Health._--Our news is good: Fanny never got so bad as we feared, and we
hope now that this attack may pass off in threatenings. I am greatly
better, have gained flesh, strength, spirits; eat well, walk a good
deal, and do some work without fatigue. I am off the sick list.

_Lodging._--We have found a house up the hill, close to the town, an
excellent place though very, very little. If I can get the landlo