Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Marius Borror and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: Hyphenation inconsistencies were left unchanged. THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME IX _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale._ _This is No._ ........ [Illustration: FACSIMILE OF NOTE FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF R. L. S. [_See also overleaf._]] [Illustration] THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON VOLUME NINE LONDON : PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS : IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED : WILLIAM HEINEMANN : AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXI ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS PAGE I. THE FOREIGNER AT HOME 7 II. SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES 19 III. OLD MORTALITY 26 IV. A COLLEGE MAGAZINE 36 V. AN OLD SCOTS GARDENER 46 VI. PASTORAL 53 VII. THE MANSE 61 VIII. MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET 68 IX. THOMAS STEVENSON 75 X. TALK AND TALKERS: I. 81 XI. TALK AND TALKERS: II. 94 XII. THE CHARACTER OF DOGS 105 XIII. A PENNY PLAIN AND TWOPENCE COLOURED 116 XIV. A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS'S 124 XV. A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE 134 XVI. A HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE 148 MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN CHAPTER I PAGE The Jenkins of Stowting--Fleeming's grandfather--Mrs. Buckner's fortune--Fleeming's father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets King Tom; service in the West Indies; end of his career--The Campbell-Jacksons--Fleeming's mother--Fleeming's uncle John 165 CHAPTER II 1833-1851 Birth and childhood--Edinburgh--Frankfort-on-the-Main--Paris--The Revolution of 1848--The Insurrection--Flight to Italy--Sympathy with Italy--The insurrection in Genoa--A student in Genoa--The lad and his mother 184 CHAPTER III 1851-1858 Return to England--Fleeming at Fairbairn's--Experience in a strike--Dr. Bell and Greek architecture--The Gaskells--Fleeming at Greenwich--The Austins--Fleeming and the Austins--His engagement--Fleeming and Sir W. Thomson 203 CHAPTER IV 1859-1868