Robert Louis Stevenson; some personal recollections by the late Lord Guthrie . ed a robust and vivacious personality, with vehementlikes and dislikes, and deeply rooted opinions on people,places, and things, all of which she frankly expressed withquaintness and humour. I subsequently met her at 17 Heriot Row, at familygatherings. One of these is referred to in the letter which follows :— 17 Heriot Kow,Friday, mh June (1882). My dear Guthrie,—Can you manage to dine withus on Monday, at i past 6 ? We shall be all very muchpleased to see you.—Yours sincerely, Robert Louis Stevenson. These opportu
Robert Louis Stevenson; some personal recollections by the late Lord Guthrie . ed a robust and vivacious personality, with vehementlikes and dislikes, and deeply rooted opinions on people,places, and things, all of which she frankly expressed withquaintness and humour. I subsequently met her at 17 Heriot Row, at familygatherings. One of these is referred to in the letter which follows :— 17 Heriot Kow,Friday, mh June (1882). My dear Guthrie,—Can you manage to dine withus on Monday, at i past 6 ? We shall be all very muchpleased to see you.—Yours sincerely, Robert Louis Stevenson. These opportunities made it clear to me and to every-body capable of looking below the surface, that Louis hadmet, and knew he had met, his predestined mate, whowould make him happier and more contented than anyother woman could do, and whom he could make happierand more contented than any other man could do, throughall the ups and downs, the bearing and forbearing, theillusions and disillusions, of married life. As I look back,he wrote long afterwards, I think my marriage was the. Mrs. R, L Stev •Sent to Alison Cunningham, after R. L. death, with the inscription To Cutnmy, from her boys wife, Fanny v. de Grift Stevenson. Mrs. Stevenson neveruser! the word widow. KOBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 43 best move I ever made in my life. Not only would I do itagain; I cannot conceive the idea of doing otherwise. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson, Louis shrewd andkindly parents, were evidently as firmly convinced of thisas I was. They have never got sufficient credit for thelarge-minded and large-hearted way in which they dealtwith their sons marriage, so unlike the union to which theyhad doubtless looked forward. Belonging to the straitestsect of the Pharisees (in other words, Presbyterians), Toriesof a Georgian rather than of a Victorian type, and accus-tomed to the straitlaced ideas of Edinburgh society, itneeds some imagination to realise the aspect which Louismarriage must at first have present
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