Simoneau, Jules, xxiii. 239, 240, 244; xxiv. 423; letters to, xxiv. 36, 41

Simoneau, Mrs., xxiv. 42

“Simon Fraser” (Catriona), xxv. 351 & n. 1

Simpson, Sir Walter, xxiii. 36,43, 46, 49, 69, 89, 124, 159, 174, 182, 187, 259, 341, 353; xxiv. 47; letter to, xxiv. 117, 229, 242; yachting trip with, xxiii. 124, 139, 140

Simson, Dr., xxiv. 91

Sinclair, Miss Amy, xxiii. 24, 27-8

Sinclair, Sir Tollemache, xxiii. 27

Sinico, —, singer, xxiii. 166

“Sire de Malétroit’s Door,” xiii. 184, 206, 207, 211, 248

Siron, aubergiste, Barbizon, xxiii. 187

Sitwell, Mrs. (see also Colvin, Lady), xxiii. 54, 300; xxiv. 335; xxv. 85; letter to, from Mrs. R. L. Stevenson, xxiv. 331; letters to, from R. L. S., xxiii. 57, 58, 61, 63, 66, 68, 71, 74, 77, 83, 86, 91, 93, 101, 103, 104, 110, 115, 121, 125, 127, 131, 133, 137, 139, 140, 144, 148, 149, 151, 153, 155, 156, 158, 161, 164, 166, 168, 171, 174, 175, 177, 180 bis, 181, 187, 189, 197, 198, 200, 203, 205, 207, 323; xxiv. 24; xxv. 393

Skelt, xxiv. 57, 93

Skene, William Forbes, xxv. 434-5

Skerryvore, article on (Archer), xxiv. 305

“Skerryvore” (house), xxiv. 105, 109, 141, 196, 252; xxv. 31 n. 2, 75

Skinner, Mr., xxv. 413

Slade School, xxiv. 39

“Sleeper Awakened,” xxv. 314 & n. 1

Smeoroch, Skye terrier, xxiv. 77 & n. 1; xxv. 429

Smiles, Samuel, xxiv. 121

Smith, Adam, xxiii. 72

Smith, Captain, xxiii. 235

Smith, Rev. George, xxiii. 4; xxiv. 265 n. 1

Soalu, Chief, xxv. 460

Society for Psychical Research, Journals of, xxv. 299

“Soldiers Three” (Kipling), xxv. 46

“Solemn Music” (Milton), xxiii. 294

“Solomon Crabb,” xxiii. 343-4

“Solution, The” (Lesson of the Master, H. James), xxiv. 382

“Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle” (Wordsworth), xxiii. 315 & n. 1

“Song of To-morrow,” xxiii. 141

“Songs of Scotland without words, for the Pianoforte” (Surrenne), xxiii. 113

“Songs of Travel,” xxiv. 190, 239, 337, 362, 375, 378, 395; xxv. 349 & n. 1

“Sonnet to England” (Martin), xxiii. 210

“Sophia Scarlett,” proposed, xxv. 144, 152-3, 172, 187, 281

Sophocles, translation (Campbell), xxiv. 113

Sorrow, discipline of, xxiv. 163

Soudan affairs, xxiv. 107

Southey, R., xxiii. 302

“South Sea Ballads,” xxiv. 298-9, 317, 321, 380, 395, 399

“South Sea Bubble” (Earl of Pembroke), xxv. 153 n. 1; on Kava, xxv. 183 n. 1; on Samoan streams, xxiv. 133 n. 1

“South Sea Idylls” (Stoddard), xxiv. 180

South Sea Islands, call of, xxiii. 180, 205

“South Sea Letters,” published first as “The South Seas,” later as “In the South Seas,” q.v.; selection from, projected, xxv. 423

South Seas, cruises in, xxiv. 233 et seq., 286 et seq.

“South Sea Yarns” (with Lloyd Osbourne), projected, xxiv. 361, 367, 379; xxv. 397

Spain, xxiii. 119

Spectator, xxiii. 239, 264; xxv. 58

“Spectator” (Addison’s), style of, xxiii. 252

Speculative Society, Edinburgh University, xxiii. 35, 64, 184, 312; xxiv. 178

Speed, —, xxv. 210

Spencer, —, xxv. 74-5

Spencer, Herbert, xxiii. 169

Sperber, German warship, xxv. 29

Speyside, in, xxiii. 284

“Spring Sorrow” (Henley), xxiii. 186

“Spring time,” xxiii. 191, 193, 196, 197, 202

“Squaw Men,” projected, xxiii. 329

“Squire” (Story of a Lie), xxiii. 249

“Squire Trelawney” (Treasure Island), xxiii. 326-7

Stansfield, —, xxv. 269

“Stepfather’s Story,” projected, xxiii. 207

Stephen, Leslie, xxiii. intro. xvii., 174, 184, 205, 206, 207, 241, 256, 257, 264, 267, 302, 311; xxiv. 47; letter from with appreciation of “Victor Hugo,” xxiii. 129 et seq. & n. 1; introduction by, of R. L. S. and Henley, xxiii. 172; on “Forest Notes,” xxiii. 201, 202; testimonial from, xxiii. 316

Stephenson, —, xxiii. 25

Sterne, Laurence, xxiii. intro. xxiii.

Stevenson, Alan, xxv. 335, 401, 436

Stevenson family, inquiries concerning, xxv. 293, 335, 342, 357, 399, 435-7

Stevenson, Hugh, xxv. 335

Stevenson, James, xxv. 334

Stevenson, James S., letter to, xxv. 334, 342

Stevenson, J. Horne, xxv. 293, 345, 435; letter to, xxv. 357

Stevenson, John, xxv. 358

Stevenson, Katharine (see also de Mattos), xxiii. 138

Stevenson, Macgregor, xxv. 293

Stevenson, Mrs. Alan, xxv. 110, 436

Stevenson, Mrs. R. L., xxiv. 234, 247-8, 251, 256, 258-9, 275, 282, 291-2, 323, 330-1, 341-2, 390; xxv. 29, 30, 31, 38, 249-50, 371, 377; character, xxiii. 279-80; first meeting, xxiii. 183, 228; marriage, xxiii. 228 et seq., 260, 262, 268, 270, 272, 274; xxiv. 105; collaboration with R. L. S., xxiii. 282; letter to, on avoiding the infliction of pain in literary work, xxiii. intro. xxvi.; story by (see “Shadow on the Bed“); ill health and illness of, xxiii. 280, 283-4, 320-1,355; xxv. 146, 280, 297 et seq., 320-1 et alibi; letter to, xxiv. 349; letters from, to S. Colvin, xxiv. 309, 347, to Mrs. Sitwell, xxiv. 331, to J. A. Symonds, xxiv. 11

Stevenson, Mrs. Thomas (née Balfour), xxiii. 4, 6, 148; xxiv. 39, 147, 199, 216, 220, 234, 248, 251, 258, 276, 280, 290, 291, 309, 310, 314, 323, 331, 336, 341, 343, 366, 375, 405; xxv. 3, 31, 50, 53, 193 et seq., 259, 282, 403, 406, 416; letters to, xxiii. 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24, 36, 38, 39, 44, 56, 81, 94, 96, 97, 99, 107, 112, 116, 117, 118, 120, 187, 215, 216, 218, 298, 337, 354; xxiv. 9, 21, 66, 76, 202, 383; settled in Samoa, xxv. 76, 78

Stevenson, Mrs. Thomas, and Thomas Stevenson, letters to (jointly), see Stevenson, Thomas, infra

Stevenson, name, query on to Sir H. Maxwell, xxv. 440

Stevenson, Robert, xxiii. 4, 13, 160, 200; xxiv. 359; xxv. 87, 95, 98, 120, 310, 315, 401, and see “Family of Engineers”

Stevenson, Robert (the first), xxv. 335

Stevenson, Robert Alan Mowbray (Bob), xxiii. 49, 57, 58, 83, 103, 105, 109, 110, 124, 133, 135, 137, 138, 140, 149, 174, 183, 187, 239, 308, 341; xxiv. 3, 69, 89, 124, 167, 196, 328 & n. 1; letters to, xxiii. 356; xxiv. 8, 59, 196, 198, 240, 323; xxv. 398, 401, 434

Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour (“R. L. S.”), ancestry, xxiii. 4, 5; appearance, xxiii. intro. xxxviii.; appreciation of, by Lysaght, xxv. 415 n. 1; appreciation of his own literary skill, xxv. 443; characteristics and habitudes, xxiii. intro. xxii., xxvi. et seq., 8-12, 186; xxiv. 296; xxv. 33, 415, n. 1; charm, xxiii. intro. xxiii., xxvi., xxvii.-ix., xxxi., 55; xxv. 415; conversation, xxiii. intro. xxxi., 9. 123; help derived from writings of, xxii., intro. xxix., 253-4; interest in missionary work, xxv. 10 & n. 1, 33, 56, 57; interest in music, xxiv. 188-9, 196 et seq., 285, 302; xxv. 85, 92, 125, 185; literary style and methods, xxiii. intro. xix. et seq.; xxv. 173; political views, xxiv. 107-8; portraits, busts, photographs of, xxiv. 117, 154, 170, 177, 199, 202, 238-9, 250, 255; xxv. 309, 310, 341, 353 & n. 1; relations with his father, xxiv. 5, 6 et alibi; religious views, xxiii. intro. xxxii., 11, 12, 53-4, 67

Life, 1850-57, Birth and Early delicacy, xxiii. 5

1858-67, Education and home life and early travels, xxiii. 6-8

1868-70, Engineering studies, xxiii. 10

1871-4, Law studies, religious differences with parents, xxiii. 10-12

1874-5 (May to June), Law studies, home life, experimental literature, travels, home and foreign, and friendships, xxiii. 123-4

1875-79 (July to July), Bar studies concluded, travels in France and Germany, life at the bar abandoned for literature; Fontainebleau again, xxiii. 182-3; early journalistic and other writing, xxiii. 184-5

1879-1880 (July to July), Californian visit, hardships, illness, marriage, xxiii. 228-30

1880, Aug.-1882, Oct., Home from California, xxiii. 279; summers in Scotland, xxiii. 279-80; winters at Davos, and literary work, xxiii. 280, 283

1882, Oct.-1884, Aug., The Riviera again, Montpellier and Marseilles, Nice, xxiv. 5; Hyères home life, happier relations with parents, illness and literary work, letters, xxiv. 3-5

1874, Sept.-1887, Aug., Bournemouth homes—“Skerryvore,” invalid life, friendships, and literary work, xxiv. 104-9; visit to Paris, schemes for life in Ireland, xxiv. 108; death of his father, and departure for Colorado, xxiv. 110

1887, Aug.-1888, June, Voyage to New York and reception there, friends new and old, stay in the Adirondacks, journey to San Francisco, xxiv. 233-4

1888, June-1890, Oct., Voyages in the Pacific, xxiv. 290-3; settlement at Vailima, xxiv. 291-2; controversy about Father Damien, xxiv. 292

1890, Nov.-1891, Dec., First year at Vailima, Samoan politics, letters on, to The Times—building of the first Vailima house, xxv. 3-8

1892, Jan. to Dec., Life at Vailima, second year, visitors, enlargement of the house, Samoan politics, threatened deportation, xxv. 144-6

1893, Jan. to Dec., Life at Vailima, third year, the addition to the house completed, Samoan politics, proclamation aimed at him, illness of Mrs. R. L. Stevenson, trips to Sydney, to Honolulu, to New Zealand, outbreak of war, financial anxieties, signs of life-weariness, xxv. 280-2

1894, Jan. to Dec., fourth year at Vailima, illness and recovery, loss of literary facility, financial position, visitors, xxv. 373-5; the making of the Road of Gratitude, xxv. 374, 432 et seq., 441, 446; speech and feast to the chiefs, xxv. 441, 446, 462 et seq.; sudden death and burial, xxv. 8, 10 n. 1, 375; account of, by Lloyd Osbourne, xxv. 457 et seq.; epitaph, xxiii. 268; xxv. 375

Stevenson, Thomas, xxii. 4, 5, 11, 12, 20, 24, 146, 148, 180, 260, 261 & n. 1, 279, 285, 298, 328, 347, 353; xxiv. 5, 6, 39, 58, 105, 107, 108, 118, 119, 135, 138, 147, 161, 187, 188, 189, 196, 199, 210, 216, 220, 234, 276, 280, 365, 405; xxv. 335, 382, 401; affection for Mrs. R. L. S., xxiii. 279; gift to her of a Bournemouth house, xxiv. 105; biographical essay on, xxiii. 21; letters to, xxiii. 13, 42, 111, 113, 213, 290, 330; xxiv. 9, 22, 62, 74, 90, 118, 119, 137, 159, 179, 190, 201; Memories of, xxv. 413; misunderstandings with, xxiii. intro. xvii., 11, 12, 55, 67; religious views, xxiii. 11, 12, 52, 67; death, xxiii. 5; xxiv. 109, 227

and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson, joint letters to, xxiii. 215, 296, 305; xxiv. 27, 75, 76, 78, 100, 110, 130, 168, 199

“Stewart, Alan Breck,” xxv. 46-8

Stewart, James (see Appin murder)

Stewart, Miss (Bathgate), xxiii. 227

Stewart, Sir Herbert, xxiv. 81

Stewart’s plantation, Tahiti, xxv. 153 & n. 1

“Stickit Minister” (Crockett), dedication of, xxv. 349 & n. 1

Stobo Manse, at, xxiii. 284, 357

Stockton, F. R., verse to, xxiv. 125

Stoddard, Charles Warren, xxv. 267; letters to, xxiii. 275, 294; xxiv, 180

“Stories and Interludes” (Barry Pain), xxv. 215

“Stories,” or “A Story Book,” projected, xxiii. 249

Storm, ideas on, xxiii. 150

“Story of a Lie,” xxiii. 12, 229, 230, 235, 237, 247, 249; xxiv. 90

“Strange Adventures of Mr. Nehemiah Solny,” projected, xxiii. 170

“Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” xxiii. intro. xxiii.; xxiv. 106, 169, 171, 182, 233, 253, 398; xxv. 289; publication, xxiv. 166; dedication, xxiv. 167; criticisms, xxiv. 184

Strathpeffer, at, xxiii. 280, 284, 285

Streams, Samoan, peculiarities of, xxv. 36

Strong, Austin, xxiv. 151, 341; xxv. 92, 117, 249 & n. 1, 269 & n. 1, 389, 403, 446

Strong, Mrs., xxiv. 325 & n. 1, 341; xxv. passim; letter to, xxiii. 286

Stuebel, Dr., German Consul, xxv. 35, 41 & n. 1, 141

Sturgis, Mrs., xxv. 391

“Subpriorsford,” nickname for Vailima, xxv. 165, 170

“Such is Life,” poem (Martin), xxiii. 209

Sudbury, Suffolk, at, xxiii. 56

Suffering, value of, xxiii. 251

Suffolk, peasantry, xxiii. 61

“Suicide Club,” xxiii. intro. xx., 356

Sullivan, Russell, xxv. 25

Sunrise, tonic of, xxv. 401

Sutherland, Mr., xxiii. 15

Sutherland, Mrs., xxiii. 22

Swan, Professor, xxiii. 193; xxiv. 143; xxv. 315

Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, xxiii. 8, 123, 126 et seq., 312

“Sweet Girl Graduate, A,” and other poems (Martin), xxiii. 208-9

Swift, Dr. and Mrs., of Molokai, xxiv. 351-2

Swinburne, A. C., poems, xxv. 390

Sydney, N.S.W., visits to, and illnesses at, xxiv. 292-3, 325, 375, 382 et seq., 394; xxv. 4, 38, n. 1, 53 et seq., 61, 77, 81, 208, 288-9, 296

Symonds, J. A., xxiii. 281, 304, 311, 317, 334, 341, 351, 361; xxiv. 142; dedication of book by, xxv. 454; epithet of, for R. L. S., xxiii. intro. xxvi.; letter to, from Mrs. R. L. Stevenson, xxiv. 11; letters to, xxiv. 182, 254, 304; on Southey, xxiii. 302; death of, xxv. 317 & n. 1


Table Talk” (Hazlitt), xxiv. 130

Tacitus, xxiv. 83

Tahiti, xxiv. 291, 371

Tahitian Islands, xxiv. 293; stay in, xxiv. 291, 296 et seq.

Tait, Professor, xxiv. 118

“Tales and Fantasies,” xxv. 397.

“Tales for Winter Nights,” projected title, xxiii. 316, 318

“Tales of a Grandfather” (Scott), xxv. 117

“Tales of my Grandfather” (see also “Family of Engineers”), xxv. 110

“Talk and Talkers” (Cornhill), xxiii. 283, 341, 349; xxiv. 138

Tamasese, xxiv. 371; xxv. 67, 351

Tamate, see Chalmers

Tati, high chief of the Tevas, xxiv. 317

Tauchnitz, Baron, and “Footnote,” xxv. 346

Tautira, at, xxiv. 291, 302 et seq., 317

Taylor, Ida and Una, xxiv. 105, 372, 374

Taylor, Lady, xxiv. 105, 180; xxv. 203; death of, xxv. 254; letters to, xxiv. 211, 212, 286, 357, 372

Taylor, Miss, xxv. 364; letter to, xxv. 254

Taylor, Sir Henry, xxiv. 145, 180

Tembinoka, King of Apemama, xxiv. 358-9, 368, 400; verses to, xxiv. 378, 380

Temple Bar, contributions to, xxiii. 184, 206, 207, 211

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (see also “Becket”), xxiv. 205

“Tentation de St. Antoine” (Flaubert), xxiii. 150

Teriitera, Samoan name of R. L. S., xxiv. 308, 310, 317, 321

“Tess of the D’Urbervilles” (Hardy), xxv. 266 n. 1, 296

Thackeray, W. M., xxv. 154

“Theatrical World” (Archer), xxv. 384

“Thérèse Raquin” (Zola), xxiv. 57

“The Tempest” (Shakespeare), xxiv. 96

“Thomas Haggard” (Window in Thrums), xxv. 276

Thomson, Maggie, xxiii. 25

Thomson, Mr., xxiii. 8

“Thomson,” pseudonym, letters in character of and as to, xxiv. 14, 121, 122

Thoreau, Henry David, essay on (Familiar Studies), xxiii. 226, 229, 252, 255, 262, 263, 265, 273; xxiv. 149, 158; criticisms on, xxiii. 322

“Thoughts on Literature as an Art,” xxiii. 266

“Thrawn Janet” (Cornhill), xxiii. 282, 308, 316, 321; xxiv. 90; xxv. 295

“Tibby Birse” (Window in Thrums), xxv. 276, 362 n. 1

Time, Archer’s criticisms in, xxiv. 156, 159, 160, 161

“Time” (Milton), xxiii. 294

Times, The, letters to, on Samoan affairs, xxv. 7, 94, 98, 119, 137, 145, 212, 376, 386, 387

Todd, John, xxiv. 221

Todd, Mrs., xxiv. 221

“Tod Lapraik” (Catriona), xxv. 294-5

“Tommy Haddon” (Wrecker), xxv. 268 & n. 1

“Toothache, The” (Burns), xxiv. 256

“Torn Surplice, The,” suggested title, xxiii. 321

Torquay, at, xxiv. 109

Torrence, Rev. ——, xxiii. 181

“Touchstone, The,” xxiii. 141

Tourgenieff, ——, xxiii. 222

“Tourgue, la” (“Quatre-vingt Treize,” Hugo), xxiii. 130

Trades Unions, xxiii. 97

“Tragedies of the Wilderness” (Drake), xxiv. 270

“Tragic Comedians” (Meredith), xxiii. 224

“Tragic Muse, The” (H. James), xxiv. 397; xxv. 44, 130-1

“Transformation of the Scottish Highlands,” projected, xxiii. 297

Traquair, Willie, xxiii. 20, xxiv. 70

“Travailleurs de la Mer” (Hugo), xxiii. 129 n. 1

Travel-books, cheap edition projected, xxiii. 294

“Travelling Companion, The,” projected, xxiii. 321; xxiv. 68, 149

“Travels and Excursions,” Vols. II. and III. discussed, xxv. 423

“Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes,” xxiii. 183, 184, 185, 216, 217, 219, 225, 229, 248, 250, 257

“Treasure Island,” xxiii. intro. xxxv., 282, 283, 326, 334, 352, 355; xxiv. 31, 93, 101, 112, 179, 233; xxv. 76, 124, 289, 429; publication as serial, xxiii. 328; in book form, xxiv. 6, 27, 35, 67; criticisms, xxiv. 66; genesis of, xxiv. 101; illustrated edition, xxiv. 159; paper on, xxv. 376

“Treasure of Franchard,” xxiv. 4, 398; xxv. 153

“Trial of Joan of Arc,” xxiii. 203

“Trials of the Sons of Rob Roy, with Anecdotes,” xxiii. 332

“Tricoche et Cacolet,” xxiii. 219

“Tristram Shandy” (Sterne), xxiii. 118

Trollope, Anthony, novels of, xxiii. 215

“Trophées, Les” (Hérédia), xxv. 331 & n. 1

Trudeau, Dr., xxiv. 234

Tulloch, Principal, xxiii. 280, 290, 297, 316; xxv. 97, 123

Tupper, Martin, xxiii. 348

“Tushery,” xxiv. 6, 31, 32

Tusitala, xxv. 196 et aliter

Tutuila, visited, xxv. 4, 8, 58, 65

“Twa Dogs” (Burns), xxiii. 225

Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), xxiii. 276

Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) at the Jenkins’, xxiii. 175, 176, 178

“Two Falconers, The, of Cairnstane,” xxiii. 170

“Two St. Michael’s Mounts,” essay, projected, xxiii. 207

“Two Years before the Mast” (Dana), xxiv. 297

“Typee” (Melville), xxiv. 348


Ulufanua, island, xxv. 97

“Underwoods,” collected verses, xxiii. 222, 271, 281, 296, 300; xxiv. 36, 89, 107, 170, 173 n. 1, 189-90, 214, 215, 229-30, 231, 395; xxv. 376, 398; dedication of, xxiv. 374; review by Gosse, xxiv. 244; success of, xxiv. 239, 255-6

United States, the, and Samoa, xxv. 6 et seq.

Upolu and Savaii, xxv. 8


Vacquerie, ——, xxiii. 307

Vaea, Mount, xxv. 9, 135, 388; burial-place, xxv. 10 n. 1, 460

Vaea river, xxv. 132 et seq.

Vailima, home at, xxiv. 291; purchase of, xxiv. 292, 372-3, 374, 377, 390; life at, xxv. 3 et seq., 148-51, 156 et seq., 280 et seq.; visitors to, xxv. 228; expenses, xxv. 282; household staff, xxv. 356-7; joy of colour at, xxv. 378; new house, xxv. 145-6, 251, 269, 271, 278-9, 284, 287; decorations for, xxv. 308-9; feeling about, xxv. 349

“Vailima Letters,” xxiii. intro. xviii., xxix.; xxv. 5

Vanity Fair, magazine, contributions to, xxiii. 184, 198, 199

“Vanity Fair” (Thackeray), xxv. 154

Vedder, Elihu, illustrator of “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,” xxiv. 116

“Velasquez” (R. A. M. Stevenson), xxiii. 57

“Vendetta, in the West,” unfinished, xxiii. 229, 238-9, 241, 244, 255, 256, 259, 266

Verses, Miscellaneous and Impromptu—