Robert Louis Stevenson; some personal recollections by the late Lord Guthrie . Edinburgh conventionality,and disinclination for any profession, other than letters,drove him from Edinburgh to England, France, Switzerland,and the United States. After 1876 or 1877 we did notmeet till 1880 or 1881, when he introduced me to his wifein 17 Heriot Row, the house of his father and same year he stood for the chair of ConstitutionalLaw and History in the University of Edinburgh. Theright of nomination to the chair lay with the Faculty ofAdvocates; and I was asked by bis father, Mr. ThomasStev
Robert Louis Stevenson; some personal recollections by the late Lord Guthrie . Edinburgh conventionality,and disinclination for any profession, other than letters,drove him from Edinburgh to England, France, Switzerland,and the United States. After 1876 or 1877 we did notmeet till 1880 or 1881, when he introduced me to his wifein 17 Heriot Row, the house of his father and same year he stood for the chair of ConstitutionalLaw and History in the University of Edinburgh. Theright of nomination to the chair lay with the Faculty ofAdvocates; and I was asked by bis father, Mr. ThomasStevenson, to nominate Louis. Correspondence with Louis,who was then with his wife on the Continent, and consulta-tions with his father and mother, followed on that request. In 1886, Stevenson, writing from Bournemouth, intro-duced his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, and asked me to arrangefor the lads admission to the Speculative Society. Louis ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 3 father died the next year, and thereafter, till Stevensonsdeath at Vailima in Samoa in 1894, my connection with the. Stevenson family was through his mother and his uncle,Dr. George Balfour, the eminent Edinburgh medicalconsultant. In 1908 I became tenant of Swanston Cottage, at the 4 EOBEET LOUIS STEVENSON foot of the Pentland Hills, five miles from the EdinburghPost Office, which had been the Stevensons summer homefor twelve years, from 1867 to 1880. Some time beforethat I found that Alison Cunningham, Stevensons oldnurse, lived in South Morningside, the Edinburgh suburbnearest to Swanston. At Swanston, and in her own housein Edinburgh, we saw much of Gummy in her later years;and, in connection with her, I had many talks with hisaunt, Dr. George Balfours widow, and correspondence withLouis widow and stepchildren, Lloyd Osbourne and In addition to correspondence about Cummy,Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson and Mrs. Strong wrote meabout passages in certain books, published in this countryand the United States, which
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