The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition. Volume 24

18

Suite anglaise.

19

As in fact he had, all except the double l.

20

In Pendennis.

21

For the actual sum, see below, p. 243.

22

Alluding to a kind of lofty, posturing manner of G. M.’s in mind and speech, quite different from any real insincerity.

23

King Kalakaua.

24

This is the Canadian poet Archibald Lampman (d. 1899).

25

Stevenson’s stepdaughter, Mrs. Strong, who was at this time living at Honolulu, and joined his party and family for good after they arrived at Sydney in the following autumn.

26

R. A. M. Stevenson was at this time professor of Fine Art in the University of Liverpool.

27

The Hawaiian name for white men.

28

The writer has omitted something here.

29

Table of chapter headings follows.

30

French bâtons rompus: disconnected thoughts or studies.

31

The Rev. Dr. Hyde, of Honolulu: in reference to Stevenson’s letter on Father Damien.

32

By Émile Zola.

33

Afterwards re-named The Ebb-Tide.

34

His Letters.

35

Originally printed upside-down.

36

Originally printed upside-down.

37

Originally printed sideways.

38

Originally printed sideways.

39

Originally printed sideways.

40

Originally printed sideways.

41

Originally printed sideways.

42

“But she was more than usual calm,She did not give a single dam.”

Marjorie Fleming.

43

“Smith opens out his cauld haranguesOn practice and on morals.”

The Rev. George Smith of Galston, the minister thus referred to by Burns (in the Holy Fair), was a great-grandfather of Stevenson on the mother’s side; and against Stevenson himself, in his didactic moods, the passage was often quoted by his friends when they wished to tease him.

44

Afterwards changed to Alison.