Robert Louis Stevenson : Interviews and Recollections Book

	List of Plates
	Acknowledgements
	List of Abbreviations
	Introduction
	A Stevenson Chronology
	Smout's Favourite Occupation	1
	A Taste for Adventurous Tales	6
	'Cummy, I Was Just Telling Myself a Story!'	10
	A Playmate beyond Compare	14
	Quick and Bright but Somewhat Desultory Scholar	20
	I Have Seen a Young Poet	24
	A Poseur, Prone to Exaggerate Himself, Even to Himself	27
	The Very Worst Ten Minutes I Ever Experienced	32
	Delightfully and Fearlessly Boyish	38
	Edinburgh Ale and Cold Meat Pies	42
	A Wonderful Talker	45
	I Do Not Remember an Ill-natured Remark	49
	As Restless and Questing as a Spaniel	52
	Sealed of the Tribe of Louis	57
	A Touch of the Elfin and Unearthly	62
	The Best of All Good Times at Grez	67
	Industrious Idleness	72
	Study the Masters	76
	The Scotch Literary Mediocrity	81
	The Silent and, Truth to Tell, Rather Dejected Youth	85
	Submerged in Billows of Bedclothes	88
	The Look as of the Ancient Mariner	92
	A Rather Odd, Exotic, Theatrical Kind of Man	96
	'You Must Never, Never Write Like That Again'	100
	Visiting Skerryvore	104
	'Looks Like a Sooercide, Don't He, Sir?'	111
	Beside Himself with Anger	115
	A Most Affectionate Observer	118
	Inventing One Project After Another	122
	Buffalo Coat and Indian Moccasins	128
	The Mannerly Stevenson	134
	As Good a Listener as He was a Talker	138
	Always Eager for Excitement	143
	Everybody Felt Thoroughly at Home	147
	Writings as Pure as Possible	152
	Queer Birds - Mighty Queer Ones Too	157
	The Misspent Sunday	164
	The Soul of a Peasant	169
	A Feast at Vailima	174
	Patriarchal Relations	178
	Working Away Every Morning Like Steam-engines	185
	Barley-sugar Effigy of a Real Man	192
	Whatever He Did He Did with His Whole Heart	197
	Called Home	202
	Suggestions for Further Reading	208
	Index	210