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RLS to William Archer, February 1888.
RLS to W. E. Henley, October 1879.
See also Doyle to RLS, 30 May 1893 and Barrie to RLS, 8 May 1891.
Balfour, p. 160.
Roger G. Swearingen, The Prose Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Guide (London: Macmillan, 1980) p. 28.
RLS to J. A. Symonds, spring 1886.
Quoted in George E. Brown, A Book of RLS, p. 157. For a fuller discussion of this matter see Irving S. Saposnik, Robert Louis Stevenson (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1974) pp. 75–9.
Cf. H. G. Wells’s short story ‘The Country of the Blind’ in which a similar moral dilemma is posed.
RLS to Lady Taylor, January 1887.
RLS to Colvin, 2 November 1890.
RLS to Colvin, 28 September 1891.
The first unexpurgated edition was that published by Penguin Books in 1979, edited by Jenni Calder.
Cf. David Punter, The Literature of Terror (London: Longman, 1980) pp. 239–67.
Cf. H. G. Wells, The History of Mr. Polly, Ch. 7: ‘it never palled upon him that in the dusky stabbing of the “Island of Voices” [sic] something poured over the stabber’s hands “like warm tea”.’
RLS to Colvin, 14 December 1886.
‘The Works of Edgar Allan Poe’, reprinted in Essays Literary and Critical (Tusitala Edition, vol. 28).
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Hammond, J.R. (1984). The Short Stories. In: A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion. Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06080-1_5
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