...is a young Scotchman here, a Mr. Stevenson," wrote her eighteen-year-old daughter Isobel from Grez. "He is such a nice-looking ugly man, and I would rather...so much better and is getting prettier every day." To the Stevensonian, this book is a mine of delight. It sets down what has never before been sufficiently...

...laughed for an hour at the idea of such an old place not being much settled. He is such a nice looking ugly man, and I would rather listen to him talk than read the most interesting book I ever saw. We sit in the little green arbor after dinner drinking coffee and talking till late at...

...saw. We sit in the little green arbor after dinner drinking coffee and talking till late at night. Mama is ever so much better and is getting prettier every day." Again she writes: "Yesterday I canoed to Nemours in Louis Stevenson's Rob Roy. We generally congregate...