A photograph will be taken of my ugly mug and sent to you for ulterior purposes: I have another thing coming out, which I did not put in the way of the Scribners, I can scarce tell how; but I was sick and penniless and rather back on the world, and mismanaged it. I trust they will forgive me.
I am sorry to hear of Mrs. Low’s illness, and glad to hear of her recovery. I will announce the coming _Lamia_ to Bob: he steams away at literature like smoke. I have a beautiful Bob on my walls, and a good Sargent, and a delightful Lemon; and your etching now hangs framed in the dining-room. So the arts surround me.—Yours,
{ xv} _Vailima Letters_: Methuen and Co., 1895.
{ xxi} Compare _Virginibus Puerisque_: the essay on ‘The English Admirals.’
{ xxx} The fragment called _Lay Morals_, at present only printed in the Edinburgh edition (_Miscellanies_, vol. iv.), contains the pith of his mental history on these subjects.
{ 17} Aikman’s _Annals of the Persecution in Scotland_.
{ 56} See Scott himself in the preface to the Author’s edition.
{ 67} Compare the paragraph in ‘Ordered South’ describing the state of mind of the invalid doubtful of recovery, and ending: ‘He will pray for Medea; when she comes, let here either rejuvenate or slay.’
{ 161} Here follows a long calculation of ways and means.
{ 185} ‘The whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be in Sir Robert’s house at Pace and Yule, and such high seasons.’—See ‘Wandering Willie’s Tale’ in _Redgauntlet_, borrowed perhaps from _Christ’s Kirk of the Green_.
{ 186} In architecture, a series of piles to defend the pier of a bridge.
{ 209} The reference is of course to Wordsworth’s _Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle_.
{ 223} From Landor’s _Gebir_: the line refers to Napoleon Bonaparte.
{ 263} Fair copy of some of the _Child’s Garden_ verses.
{ 289} The well-known Scottish landscape painter, who had been a friend of Stevenson’s in youth.
{ 290} _Croûtes_: crude studies or daubs from nature.
{ 303} A favourite Skye terrier. Mr. Stevenson was a great lover of dogs.
{ 318} The essay so called. See _Memories and Portraits_.
{ 339} Mr. Charles Morley, at this time manager or assistant-manager of the _Pall Mall Gazette_.