Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial

PREFACE

A few words may here be allowed me to explain one or two points. First, about the facsimile of last page of Preface to _Familiar Studies of Men and Books_. Stevenson was in Davos when the greater portion of that work went through the press. He felt so much the disadvantage of being there in the circumstances (both himself and his wife ill) that he begged me to read the pr...