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This dictionary is an alphabetically arranged guide to the short stories and essays. With its aid it is possible to identify the volume containing any particular story or essay. The number of the appropriate volume in the Tusitala Edition is also given after each entry.
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‘Rosa Quo Locorum: Random Memories’.
For a detailed discussion of the two Edinburghs see Moray McLaren, Stevenson and Edinburgh (London: Chapman and Hall, 1950).
See, for example, Jenni Calder, RLS: A Life Study (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980) pp. 53–7
And Paul Binding, Introduction to Weir of Hermiston and Other Stories (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979) pp. 15–16.
RLS to Charles Baxter, 2 February 1873.
Janet Adam Smith, R. L. Stevenson (London: Duckworth, 1937) p. 79.
RLS to Mrs. Sitwell, June 1875.
RLS to Henry James, August 1890.
RLS to R. A. M. Stevenson, June 1894.
Quoted in Smith, op.cit., p. 126.
RLS to Charles Baxter, 1 December 1892.
RLS to Colvin, August 1879; RLS to Miss Monroe, June 1886.
RLS to R. A. M. Stevenson, June 1894.
‘A College Magazine’.
RLS to Baxter, 5 December 1881.
Cf. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau and the Croquet Player, Golding, The Lord of the Flies.
See, for example, Heathercat, The Young Chevalier and the Great North Road.
Henry James, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson’, Century Magazine, April 1888, xxxv, pp. 869–79.
RLS to Marcel Schwob, 19 August 1890; RLS to Colvin, 29 April 1891.
Cf. RLS to Colvin, 1 May 1892.
Henry James, op.cit.
On his death Stevenson left eight unfinished novels, in addition to Weir of Hermiston and St. Ives. These fragments are reprinted in Volume 16 of the Tusitala Edition.
Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door, p. 245.
G. B. Stern, Introduction to The Tales and Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Hammond, J.R. (1984). A Robert Louis Stevenson Dictionary. In: A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion. Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06080-1_3
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