Excerpt from Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin, November 1890 to October 1894 In those days, then, of Stevenson's youth it was my good fortune to be of use to him, partly by helping to soften parental opposition to his, inborn vocation for letters, partly by recommending him to editors (mr. Hamerton, Sir George Grove, and Mr. Leslie Stephen in succession), and a little even by such technical hints as a classical training and five years' seniority en abled me to give. It belonged to the richness of his nature to repay in all things much for little, ecepfior. Eweaboiwv, and from these early relations sprang both the affection, to me inestimable, of which the following correspondence bears evidence, and the habit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.