Abbé Coignard” (France), xxv. 409, 410

Academy, The, xxiii. intro. xvii., 166; contributions to, xxiii. 184, xxv. 364

“Across the Plains,” xxv. 123 & n. 1, xxv. 207, 224, 301 n. 1; dedication, xxv. 127 & n. 1, xxv. 323 & n. 1; inception, xxv. 97 & n. 1

“Actor’s Wife,” projected, xxiii. 308

Adams, Henry, historian, xxv. 4, 29, 41, 43, 45

“Address to the Unco Guid” (Burns), xxiii. 225

“Adela Chart” (“The Marriages,” H. James), xxv. 108-9, 110

“Adelaïde,” song (Beethoven), xxiii. 64

Adirondack Mountains, stay in, xxiv. 234, 306 et seq.

Admiral Benbow inn (Treasure Island), xxiii. 327

“Admiral Guinea,” play (with Henley), xxiii. 327; xxiv. 106, 119, 120, 146, 147; xxv. 447

“Admiral,” the (Story of a Lie), xxiii. 248, 249; xxiv. 90

“Adventures of David Balfour,” proposed double volume of, xxv. 283, 357, 366

“Æneid,” reading of, xxiv. 186, 265, 306

“Æsthetic Letters” (Schiller), xxiv. 71

Ahab, King, xxv. 304

“Ah perfido spergiuro,” song, xxiii. 166

Aitu fafine, an, xxv. 41, 135

Alabama case, xxiii. 110

“Aladdin” (Pyle), xxv. 164

Alais, visit to, xxiii. 216

“Alan Breck Stewart,” (“Catriona” and “Kidnapped”), xxiv. 201, 203, xxv. 46, 142; letter as from, xxv. 46-8

Alexander, J. W., xxiv. 249, 250; drawing by, of R. L. S., xxiv. 199

Allan Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns, essay on, projected, xxiii. 191, 192, 193

Allen, Grant, ballade by, xxiv. 248

“Amateur Emigrant,” xxiii. 235, 237, 239, 240, 244, 252, 254, 255, 259, 260, 265, 266, 267, 277, 352; xxv. 396-7 & n. 1, 398, 414, 423

“Amazing Marriage” (Meredith), R. L. S. drawn in, xxv. 344, 390-1

“Amelia Balfour,” see Jersey, Countess of

American politics, xxiii. 112

Anderson, Dr., xxv. 457-8

Andrews, Mrs., xxiii. 113

Angelo, Michael, xxiii. 32

Angus, W. Craibe, letters to, xxv. 69, 87, 118

“Annals of the Persecutions in Scotland” (Aikman), xxiii. 18

Anser, xxiii. 22

Anstey, F., xxv. 275

Anstruther, at, xxiii. 12

“Antichrist, L’” (Renan), xxv. 304

“Antiquary, The” (Scott), xxiv. 91

Antwerp, xxiii. 185

Apemama, Gilbert Islands, xxiv. 358

Apia, at, xxiv. 293, 370, 375; xxv. 226; famous hurricane at, xxiv. 345, 346, 369, 371; xxv. 147, 172-3, 174; prisoners at, gratitude shown by, to R. L. S., xxv. 367 et seq.

Apiang, Island, xxiv. 358

Apology, difficulty of, xxiii. 133, 134

“Apology for Idlers,” xxiii. 203, 204, 205, 207, 210

“Appeal to the Clergy of the Church of Scotland,” xxiii. 141, 142

Appin case (Catriona), xxv. 161, 351

Appin country, in, xxiii. 284

Appin Murder, xxiii. 284, 331, 332; xxv. 161, 351

Appleton, Dr., xxiii. intro. xvii. 143, 144, 168, 178

“Arblaster” (Black Arrow), xxiii. intro. xx.

Arbroath, Abbot of, xxiii. 29

Archer, Thomas, letter to, xxiv. 305

Archer, William, xxiv. 105, 161, 214; letters to, xxiv. 147, 156, 161, 163, 247, 270, 272, 273, xxv. 384

Archer, William and Thomas, letter to, xxiv. 300

Areia, chief, xxiv. 315

Arnold, Matthew, xxiii. 15

Arthur’s Seat, xxiii. 71

Artist, the, problem of, xxv. 378-9

“Art of Literature,” projected, xxiii. 342

“Art of Virtue,” xxiii. 265

Asceticism and Christianity, xxiii. 213

Assurance of Faith, xxiii. 299, 300

“As You Like It” (Shakespeare), xxiv. 96

Atalanta, magazine, contributions to, xxv. 279 & n. 1, 283

Athenæum, xxiii. 239

“At Last” (Kingsley), xxiv. 101

“Attwater” (Ebb Tide), xxv. 301, 307, 350, 382

Atua, bombardment of, xxv. 424, 426

Auckland, visits to, xxv. 30, 34; xxv. 290, 291, 292

“Auld Licht Idylls” (Barrie), xxv. 264

“Auntie’s Skirts” (Child’s Garden of Verse), xxiii. 223

Aurévilly, Barbey d’, works of, xxiv. 83; xxv. 174, 314, 379

“Ausfürliche Erklarung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche” (Lichtenberg), xxiii. 178

“Autolycus at Court,” xxiii. 170

“Autumn Effect, An,” xxiii. 155, 166; xxv. 397-8

Autun, xxiii. 216, 219

Avignon, at, xxiii. 77

Ayrshire and Galloway, walking tour in, xxiii. 182, 202


Babington, Mrs. Churchill, xxiii. 54; letter to, xxiii. 30

Babington, Professor Churchill, xxiii. 30, 54; xxiv. 130

Bacon, Sir F., on Time, xxiii. 81

Baildon, H. B., xxv. 56; letters to, xxv. 56, 377, 381

Baker, Mrs. A., letters to, xxv. 366, 413

Baker, Shirley, of Tonga, xxv. 40, 44

Baker, Sir Samuel, xxv. 175

Bakewell, Dr., letter to, xxv. 424

Balfour, Dr. George, xxiii. 330

Balfour, Graham, xxv. 221, 251 & n. 1, 292, 339, 348, 351, 355, 363, 406, 416; “Life” of R. L. S., by, xxiii. intro. xix.; at Vailima, xxv. 144, 374, 401, 403

Balfour, James, xxiii. 4

Balfour, Miss Jane, letter to, xxiii. 223

Balfour, Mr., of the Shaws, xxv. 47

Balfour, Mrs. Lewis, xxiii. 4, 5

Balfour of Burley (Old Mortality), xxiii. 130

Balfour, Rev. Lewis, xxiii. 4

“Balfour’s Letters,” xxv. 293

“Ballade in Hot Weather” (Henley), xxiv. 248

“Ballades, Rondeaus, etc.” (collected by Gleeson White), xxiv. 248

“Ballads,” xxiv. 380; xxv. 34, 53, 57, 73

Ballantyne, R., xxiii. intro. xxiii.

Balzac, xxv. 154; on literary frenzy, xxiii. 173; style of, xxiv. 60

Bamford, Dr. W., xxiii. 271; letter to, xxiii. 272

“Barbara” (Catriona), xxv. 294-5

Barbizon, visits to, xxiii. 174 et seq., 183

Barmouth, visits to, xxiii. 124, 146

“Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities” (Billing), xxiv. 270

“Barrack Room Ballads” (Kipling), xxv. 48

“Barrel Organ,” xxiii. 171

Barrie, J. M., appreciation, xxv. 276-7: letters to, xxv. 154, 264, 276, 362, 416

Barrie, Mrs. (Margaret Ogilvie), xxv. 417

Bartholomew, Messrs., xxv. 177

Basin, Thomas, xxiii. 203 & n. 1

Basselin, Olivier, poems by, xxiii. 193

Bass Rock, xxiii. 207

Bates, —, xxiii. 89

Bates, Edward Hugh Higlee, xxv. 384

Bates, E. M. G., xxv. 384

Bates, J. H., letter to, xxv. 384

Bathgate, the inn maid at, xxiii. 226, 227

“Bauble Shop,” play (H. A. Jones), xxv. 385

Baudelaire, —, xxiii. 160, 195

Baxter, Charles, xxiii. 3, 159, 174, 285, 336, 341, 353, 356; xxiv. 14, 47, 79; xxv. 174, 240, 266, 273, 306, 357; letters to, xxiii. 33, 34, 46, 49, 52, 92, 193, 217, 262, 285, 336, 341; xxiv. 14, 121, 122, 200, 251, 260, 268, 286, 294, 296, 301, 303, 322, 327, 343, 344, 369, 375, 384, 392; xxv. 53, 82, 120, 177, 213, 270, 278, 288, 292, 337, 345, 360, 376, 392, 394, 433; literary agency of, xxiv. 252; scheme of, for “Edinburgh Edition,” xxv. 372 & n. 1, 373

Baxter, Edmund, xxiv. 394; xxv. 54; death of, xxv. 433

Baynes, Professor Spencer, editor “Encyclopædia Britannica,” xxiii, 202

“Beachcombers” (with Lloyd Osbourne), xxiv. 361

“Beach de Mar,” projected xxv. 187

“Beach of Falesá,” xxv. 5, 20, 25, 76, 97, 102, 103 & n. 1, 120, 122, 131, 138, 147, 152, 221, 224, 235-6, & n. 1, 239, 240, 250, 266, 272, 274, 284; illustrations to, xxv. 253-4, 288; marriage contract in, xxv. 187 & n. 1; publication, xxv. 1.

“Beau Austin,” play (with Henley), xxiv. 106

Becker, Consul, xxv. 139, 141, 268

“Becket” (Tennyson), xxv. 385

“Bedtime” projected, xxiv. 99

“Beggars” (Scribner’s), xxiv. 235, 253; xxv. 97, 209, 301

Bell Rock, book on, xxiv. 78; xxv. 322; controversy on, xxiv. 121

Bell, the, in the Vailima woods, xxv. 277

Ben More, xxiii. 318

Bennet, Dr., xxiii. 84, 101

Bentley, publisher, xxiii. 336, 339, 346

Béranger, article on, xxiii. 186, 191, 193

Bereavement, xxiv. 52

Berlin Convention, xxv. 6

Berlioz, paper on (Henley), xxiii. 318

“Bête Humaine” (Zola), xxiv. 396; xxv. 319

“Betteredge” (Moonstone), xxiii. 18

Bickford, Captain, R.N., C.M.G., xxv. 334, 351

Bitter Creek, xxiii. 234

Black and White, contributions to, xxiii. 286, 337, 341

“Black Arrow,” xxiv. 5, 31, 56, 247, 376, 385 & n. 1; serial issue, xxiv. 55; success, xxiv. 68; suggested French version, xxiv. 398

“Black Canyon” (L. Osbourne), xxiii. 347, 348, 349

Blackie, Professor, xxiii. 28, 30, 306

Blacklock, Consul, xxv. 142

“Black Man,” xxiii. 308

Blackwood’s Magazine, xxiv. 370

Blair of Blairmyle (see “Young Chevalier”), xxv. 216

“Blanche Amory” (Thackeray), xxiv. 212

“Bloody Wedding,” projected, xxv. 66, 97

Board of Trade Offices, xxiv. 87

Boccaccio, xxv. 301

“Body Snatchers,” xxiii. 308, 316, 321; xxiv. 125, 130; xxv. 397

“Bondage of Brandon” (Hemming), xxiii. 333

“Bondman, The” (Hall Caine), xxiv. 396-7

Boodle, Miss Adelaide, xxiv. 375; letters to, xxiv. 231, 259, 267, 284, 297, 339, 401; xxv. 80, 147, 217, 243, 248, 410

“Book, A, of Stories,” projected contents, xxiii. 171

“Book of Verses” (Henley), xxv. 121

Book Reader, notice of “Prince Otto,” xxiv. 195

Books wanted, xxiii. 36, 332; xxiv. 78, 101, 130, 134, 270, 274, 338; xxv. 111, 112, 174, 215, 271, 287, 293, 346, 361, 392

Boswell, James, xxiii. 193, 203, 295

“Bottle Imp,” xxiv. 292; xxv. 272, 284, 340; Samoan translation, xxv. 64 & n. 1

Bough, Sam, painter, xxiii. 24, 26-30; xxiv. 60

Bourget, Paul, xxv. 130-2, 315, 323

Bourke, Captain, R.N., xxv. 263

Bournemouth, at, xxiv. 104 et seq.; xxv. 111

“Bouroche, Major” (Débâcle), xxv. 250

Braemar, at, xxiii. 282, 313, 320

Braille, books by R. L. S., to be issued in, xxv. 366, 413

Brandeis, xxv. 141

“Brashiana,” burlesque sonnets, xxiii. 283; xxiv. 14, 38, 39

Brash, the publican, xxiii. 336; xxiv. 14

Braxfield (Weir of Hermiston), xxv. 260 & n. 1, 264-5; portrait of, xxv. 453

Bridge of Allan, at, xxiii. 33, 174

British Museum, visits to, xxiv. 105, 107, 186-7, 202, 229, 365

Bronson, —, editor, xxiii. 240

Brooke, Rajah, xxv. 129

Brown, —, xxiv. 230

Brown, Dr. John, verses to, xxiii. 296, 297

Brown, Horatio F., xxiii. 303, 304; letters to, xxiii. 303, 304

Brown, Mrs., xxiii. 13

Brown, Rev. Dr., xxv. 312

Brown R. Glasgow (editor of London), xxiii. 184, 251; illness, xxiii. 214 & n. 1

Browne, Gordon, xxv. 301, 305; letter to, xxv. 252

Browning, Robert, xxiv. 107, 202; book on, by Gosse, xxv. 74

Bruce, Michael, xxiii. 71

Bruno, Father, xxiv. 312, 334

Brussels, at, xxiii. 36

Buckinghamshire, walking tour in, xxiii. 124, 155

Buckle, Mrs., xxiv. 176

“Bucolics” (Virgil), xxiii. 18

“Bummkopf” (typical pedant), xxiii. 225

Bunner, —, xxiv. 64, 154

Bunting, —, xxiv. 227

Bunyan, John, xxiv. 29; essay on, xxiii. 334; xxv. 398

Burford Bridge, visit to, xxiii. 183

Burial customs, Gilbert Islanders’, xxiv. 400-1

Burke, Edmund, xxiii. 71

Burlingame, E. L., editor of Scribner’s Magazine, xxiv. 233; xxv. 6, 138; letters to, xxiv. 253-4, 269, 273-4, 319, 338, 367, 376, 387, 394, xxv. 24, 32, 86, 110, 128, 145, 174, 210, 215, 257, 266

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, xxiii. 224; xxiv. 101, 107, 202; xxv. 394

Burney, “Admiral,” R.N., xxv. 394

Burn, Miss, xxiv. 89

Burns Exhibition, Glasgow, xxv. 69, 87 et seq.

Burns, Robert, xxiii. intro. xxiii.; xxv. 69, 70, 88, 395-6; articles and writings on, xxiii. 111, 151, 179, 191, 192, 193, 202, 203, 224, 226, 237, 241, 245, 250, 263, 273, 358, xxiv. 63; house of, Dumfries, xxiii. 66; judgment on, xxiii. 224; poems of, xxiii. 4, xxiv. 256

Burt, xxiii. 298

Bussard, the ship, xxv. 425

Butaritari, Gilbert Islands, xxiv. 358

“But still our hearts are true” (Eglinton), xxv. 69, 70

“But yet the Lord that is on high” (Scotch Psalter), xxiii. 23

“By Proxy” (Payn), xxiv. 7

Byron, Lord, xxiii. 132; essay on (Henley), xxiii. 318; xxiv. 7


Caldecott, Randolph, xxiii. 248, 267

California, visit to, xxiii. 228

Calistoga, at, xxiii. 277

Calton Hill (Picturesque Notes on Edinburgh), xxiii. 216

Calvin, John, studies in, xxiii. 126

Cambridge, visits to, xxiii. 219; xxiv. 105

Cameron, Captain, xxiv. 349, 350

Campagne Defli, at, xxiv. 4, 8 et seq.

Campbell of Glenure, murder of, xxiii. 284, 331, 332

Campbell, Rev. Professor Lewis, xxiii. 278, 316; letter to, xxiv. 113

“Canadian Boat Song” (Earl of Eglinton), xxv. 69, 70

Candlish, Dr., xxiv. 63

“Cannon Mills,” projected, xxiv. 403

Canoe Journey in France (see Inland Voyage), xxiii. 204

“Canoe, The, Speaks” (Underwoods), xxiv. 89, 231

“Canterbury Pilgrimage” (Chaucer), illustrated, gift of, xxiv. 149

“Capitaine Fracasse, Le” (Théophile Gautier), xxiii. 75

Cap Martin, xxiii. intro. xxxiv., 93, 114

“Captain Singleton” (Defoe), xxiv. 101, 102

Carlyle, Thomas, xxiii. 302; xxiv. 135; appreciation of, xxiii. 301, 302; on Coleridge, xxiii. 220

“Carmosine” (Musset), xxiv. 97

Carrington, C. Howard, letter to, xxiv. 152

Carr, T. Comyns, xxiv. 68

Carruthers, —, xxv. 40

Carson, Mrs., xxiii. 252

“Carthew” (Wrecker), xxv. 112 & n. 1

“Casamassima” (H. James), xxiv. 263

Casco, schooner, cruise in, xxiv. 234, 287 et seq., 290-1, 300, 305, 310, 312-3, 316 et seq., 325 et seq.

“Case Bottle,” xxiii. 281

“Cashel Byron’s Profession” (Shaw), xxiv. 270-1

“Casparidea,” unpublished, xxiii. 283

“Cassandra” (Mrs. R. L. Stevenson), xxiv. 22

Cassell and Co., xxiv. 110, 127; xxv. 57, 110, 124, 272, 283

“Catriona” (at first called “David Balfour,” q.v.), xxiii. intro. xxiii., 331; xxiv. 190, 402; xxv. 108, 144, 155, 158 & n. 1, 160-1, 163, 166-7, 172, 187, 192, 201-2, 211, 215, 240, 250, 264, 274, 283, 290, 298, 301, 305, 310, 316, 344, 351 & n. 1, 352, 378; in Braille, xxv. 366; characters in, xxv. 216; draft of, xxv. 162; maps for, xxv. 177-8; “my high-water mark,” xxv. 393 (but see 379); projected illustrations, xxv. 349 n. 1; replies to remarks on, xxv. 294 et seq.; restraint of description in, xxv. 367

Cavalier (de Sonne), xxiii. 307

Cavalier, Jean, xxiii. 306, 307

“Cavalier,” The (G. P. R. James), xxiv. 274

Cedercrantz, Conrad, Chief Justice of Samoa, xxv. 7, 13, 48-9, 67, 95-6, 98-100, 102, 124-5, 175, 188, 239, 256, 275, 278, 281, 286, 305, 364, 376, 380-1

Celtic blood in Britain, xxv. 379

Century Magazine, xxiv. 26, 30, 55, 90, 171; article in, by H. James, on R. L. S., xxiv. 250-1; contributions to, xxiii. 338, xxiv. 55, 170, 171, 185; critical notice in, of R. L. S., xxiv. 63, 64

Cévennes, the tramp in (see “Travels with a Donkey”), xxiii. 183

Ceylon, projected visit, xxv. 98

Chair of History and Constitutional Law, Edinburgh University, candidature for, xxiii. 282, 309 et seq., 331, 335, 336

Chalmers, Rev. J., xxv. 30, 33, 39, 56-7

“Chapter of Artistic History,” suggested title for proposed book by Henley, xxiii. 318

“Chapter on Dreams” (Scribner’s), xxiv. 235; xxv. 97

“Character of Dogs” (English Illustrated), xxiv. 67; xxv. 41 n. 2

“Charity Bazaar,” xxv. 398

Charles of Orleans, paper on, xxiii. 182, 191, 192, 202, 203, 204

“Charlotte” (Sorrows of Werther), xxiii. 60, 61

Charteris, Rev. Dr., xxiv. 276; letters to, xxiv. 276, 279

Chastity, xxiii. 338, 360

Chateaubriand (Sainte-Beuve), xxiii. 78

Chatto, Andrew, letter to, xxiv. 110

Chatto and Windus, publishers, xxiii. 335; xxiv. 110; xxv. 395; letter to, xxiv. 231

Chepmell, Dr., xxiv. 242

Chester visited, xxiii. 145, 146

“Chevalier Des Touches” (d’Aurévilly), xxv. 174, 314, 380

Chicago Exhibition, xxv. 379

Children, feelings towards, xxiii. 99, 101, 147, 171

Children in the [Kilburn] Cellar (see also Boodle), letter to, xxv. 243

“Child’s Garden of Verse,” xxiii. 282; xxiv. 5, 17 et seq., 24, 54, 55, 70, 99 et seq., 106, 116, 154; xxv. 385; dedication, xxiv. 16, 19, 27, 92; illustrations, xxiv. 18 et seq., 32, 115; publication, xxiv. 138, 140; reviews, xxiv. 147

“Child’s Play,” xxiv. 70; xxv. 301

Chiltern Hills, visited, xxiii. 155

“Choice of Books” (F. Harrison), xxv. 113

Christianity and Asceticism, xxiii. 213

Christmas Books (Dickens), xxiii. 148

Christmas Day at Vailima, xxv. 40-1

“Christmas Sermon,” xxv. 123 n. 1

Christ’s Hospital, xxiv. 206, 207

Chrystal, Professor, xxiv. 118

“Cimourdain” (Quatre-vingt Treize, by Hugo), xxiii. 130 n. 1

“Clarissa Harlowe” (Richardson), xxiii. 210

Clarke, Mrs. W. E., xxv. 26

Clark, R. & R., printers, xxv. 124

Clark, Rev. W. E., missionary, xxiv. 371; xxv. 10, 11 & n. 1, 26, 30, 64 n. 1, 101; xxv. 203, 236, 329, 330, 422, 458, 460

Clark, Sir Andrew, xxiii. 55, 77, 84

Claxton, missionary, xxv. 64

Clinton, —, xxiii. 332, 333