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—