Robert Louis Stevenson; some personal recollections by the late Lord Guthrie . This II-year-old Lewis, with his Cousins, Davih andCharles Stevenson. R. L. S. is in the centre,. Thomas Stevexson*, 18 YEARS OLD, AND HIS Si at Peebles in 186R. >\. Ill YEARS OLD, Notice that K. L. finger is between the leaves of the book. Assunn as he can escape, he means to resume the reading fromwhich he has been dragged, (See page 29.) ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 29 he wrote : They have been to school and college, but allthe time they have had their eye on the medal. I sup-pose Mr. Bowden was one of those tea


Robert Louis Stevenson; some personal recollections by the late Lord Guthrie . This II-year-old Lewis, with his Cousins, Davih andCharles Stevenson. R. L. S. is in the centre,. Thomas Stevexson*, 18 YEARS OLD, AND HIS Si at Peebles in 186R. >\. Ill YEARS OLD, Notice that K. L. finger is between the leaves of the book. Assunn as he can escape, he means to resume the reading fromwhich he has been dragged, (See page 29.) ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 29 he wrote : They have been to school and college, but allthe time they have had their eye on the medal. I sup-pose Mr. Bowden was one of those teachers who, as hismother used to say, liked talking to Louis better thanteaching him. (5) The sixteen-year-old Lewis, taken in 1866, the yearof his earliest publication, The Penlland Rising, printed byMr. Andrew Elliot, 17 Princes Street, Edinburgh. A propos of this picture, which I got from Mr. Elliot, Stevenson sent me the following letter :— 84 George Street,Edinburgh, 2Ath August 1914. Dear Lord Guthrie,—I think there is not the leastdoubt that the photograph is one of R. L. It wouldbe taken in the old days, probably the early sixties,when the family use


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