MY DEAR BURLINGAME,—Herewith _My Grandfather_. I have had rather a bad time suppressing the old gentleman, who was really in a very garrulous stage; as for getting him _in order_, I could do but little towards that; however, there are one or two points of interest which may justify us in printing. The swinging of his stick and not knowing the sailor of Coruiskin, in particular, and the account of how he wrote the lives in the Bell Book particularly please me. I hope my own little introduction is not egoistic; or rather I do not care if it is. It was that old gentleman’s blood that brought me to Samoa. By the by, vols. vii., viii., and ix. of Adams’s _History_ have never come to hand; no more have the dictionaries. Please send me _Stonehenge on Horse_, _Stories and Interludes_ by Barry Pain, and _Edinburgh Sketches and Memoirs_ by David Masson. _The Wrecker_ has turned up. So far as I have seen, it is very satisfactory, but on pp. 548, 549, there has been a devil of a miscarriage. The two Latin quotations instead of following each other being separated (doubtless for printing considerations) by a line of prose. My compliments to the printers; there is doubtless such a thing as good printing, but there is such a thing as good sense. The sequel to _Kidnapped_, _David Balfour_ by name, is about three-quarters done and gone to press for serial publication. By what I can find out it ought to be through hand with that and ready for volume form early next spring.—Yours very sincerely, R. L. S. TO ANDREW LANG [_Vailima_, _August_ 1892.] MY DEAR LANG,—I knew you would prove a trusty purveyor. The books you have sent are admirable. I got the name of my hero out of Brown—Blair of Balmyle—Francie Blair. But whether to call the story _Blair of Balmyle_, or whether to call it _The Young Chevalier_, I have not yet decided. The admirable Cameronian tract—perhaps you will think this a cheat—is to be boned into _David Balfour_, where it will fit better, and really furnishes me with a desired foothold over a boggy place.