I Can Remember Robert Louis Stevenson (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from I Can Remember Robert Louis Stevenson In November 1921, after the Anniversary Dinner, held in Edinburgh, of our Robert Louis Stevenson Club, and all the talk of Stevenson that preceded and followed that brilliant occasion, I realised that there were in Edinburgh not only many Stevenson lovers in the literary sense, but also men and women who could personally remember Stevenson as boy and man. And it occurred to me that in the same way there were men and women in other parts of the world who could remember him in the later chapters of his life, and if such a collection of living memories of the dead writer could be gathered, they would not only be a valuable asset to the biographical literature of our day, but would serve to draw together the literary sympathies of Stevenson lovers all the world over. On the one hand, there was this untapped source of vivid and personal information, and on the other hand, - to use Stevenson's own words about another Edinburgh scheme, of his day, - 'something fell to be done' to set our Club on a really literary footing. With these thoughts in my mind, I suggested the idea of the Book to a meeting of The Robert Louis Stevenson Club Executive, which approved of it, and appointed a Book SubCommittee, - Mr King Gillies, B.A., Mr Charles Guthrie, Mr Dods Hogg, Mr John H. Lorimer, R.S.A., Mr Laing Waugh, and myself (convener). We were fortunate in securing the sympathetic interest in our project of the Firm of W. and R. Chambers, by whom the book is published. The large and cordial response which came in reply to my editorial letters requesting contributions was a delightful encouragement. My first thanks are due to all these contributors who thus materialised the idea, by sending their personal memories to form this combined tribute from so many, - relatives, intimate friends, chance acquaintances, schoolfellows, companions of early years, comrades of later days, - all of whom can say 'I Can Remember Robert Louis Stevenson.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.