Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
_Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale._
_This volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Me...
13. Chapter 13But it is now time to see Jenkin at his life's work. I have before me certain imperfect series of letters written, as he says, "at hazard, for one does not know at the time what...
14. Chapter 14Edinburgh--Colleagues--_Farrago vitæ_--I. The family circle--Fleeming and his sons--Highland life--The cruise of the steam-launch--Summer in Styria--Rustic manners--II. The dram...
10. Chapter 10Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin (Fleeming, pronounced _Flemming_, to his friends and family) was born in a Government building on the coast of Kent, near Dungeness, where his fath...
9. Chapter 9The Jenkins of Stowting--Fleeming's grandfather--Mrs. Buckner's fortune--Fleeming's father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets King Tom; service in the West Indies; end of his ca...
11. Chapter 11In 1851, the year of Aunt Anna's death, the family left Genoa and came to Manchester, where Fleeming was entered in Fairbairn's works as an apprentice. From the palaces and Alps...
12. Chapter 12On Saturday, Feb. 26, 1859, profiting by a holiday of four days, Fleeming was married to Miss Austin at Northiam; a place connected not only with his own family but with that of...
15. Chapter 15And now I must resume my narrative for that melancholy business that concludes all human histories. In January of the year 1875, while Fleeming's sky was still unclouded, he was...
2. Chapter 27. Chapter 7Edinburgh--Colleagues--_Farrago vitæ_--I. The family circle--Fleeming and his sons--Highland life--The cruise of the steam-launch--Summer in Styria--Rustic manners--II. The Dram...
1. Chapter 1_Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are fo...
3. Chapter 3PAGE The Jenkins of Stowting--Fleeming's grandfather--Mrs. Buckner's fortune--Fleeming's father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets King Tom; service in the West Indies; end of h...
5. Chapter 54. Chapter 46. Chapter 6