America, I have endeavoured to ascertain the exact titles and dates of these papers, but without success. So far they are not discoverable either in the New York Evening Post nor in The Nation.
I also feel regret that I have been unable to definitely lay my hand on any of the articles, which, according to Mr. Sidney Colvin, Stevenson contributed to Vanity Fair in 1876.[1] A search has been made through the files of this journal, but though some articles—notably one printed in May 1875 on Salvini's 'Othello'—appear to bear the impress of the well-known hand, there is not one which can be conclusively attributed to it.
The books and papers that are noted in the Appendix are but a selection from the limitless literature that has gathered round Robert Louis Stevenson. Many omissions will doubtless be noted. I have indeed hardly gone farther afield than my own library, in which I have preserved all the articles on Stevenson which seemed to me to have a special interest, either of a literary or a biographical nature. Anonymous reviews of his books in the weekly or daily press I have as a rule excluded. Some well-chosen quotations from the best of these reviews will be found in Mr. John Foster Kirk's Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature, 1891, ii. 1387–89. Generally speaking, the articles which bear on the life-history of the author seem to me to have the greatest value, and these are pretty fully represented. Some which I have read
- ↑ Letters to his Family and Friends, i. 101.
