my name. Salute Priscilla, salute Barnabas, salute Ebenezer - O
no, he's too much, I withdraw Ebenezer; enough of early Christians.
- Ever your faithful

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.



Letter: TO MRS. SITWELL



[EDINBURGH, JUNE 1875.]

SIMPLY a scratch. All right, jolly, well, and through with the
difficulty. My father pleased about the Burns. Never travel in
the same carriage with three able-bodied seamen and a fruiterer
from Kent; the A.-B.'s speak all night as though they were hailing
vessels at sea; and the fruiterer as if he were crying fruit in a
noisy market-place - such, at least, is my FUNESTE experience. I
wonder if a fruiterer from some place else - say Worcestershire -
would offer the same phenomena? insoluble doubt.

R. L. S.

Later. - Forgive me, couldn't get it off. Awfully nice man here
to-night. Public servant - New Zealand. Telling us all about the
South Sea Islands till I was sick with desire to go there:
beautiful places, green for ever; perfect climate; perfect shapes
of men and women, with red flowers in their hair; and nothing to do