Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

SWANSTON EDITION

VOLUME IX

_Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five
Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS
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THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS

STEVENSON

VOLUME NINE

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CONTENTS

MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS

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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
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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

Fleeming's marriage--His married life--Professional
difficulties--Life at Claygate--Illness of Mrs. F. Jenkin--and
of Fleeming--Appointment to the Chair at Edinburgh 220

CHAPTER V

Notes of Telegraph Voyages, 1858-1873 231

CHAPTER VI

1869-1885

Edinburgh--Colleagues--_Farrago vitae_--I. The family
circle--Fleeming and his sons--Highland life--The cruise of the
steam-launch--Summer in Styria--Rustic manners--II. The
Drama--Private theatricals--III. Sanitary associations--The
phonograph--IV. Fleeming's acquaintance with a student--His late
maturity of mind--Religion and morality--His love of
heroism--Taste in literature--V. His talk--His late
popularity--Letter from M. Trelat 260