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Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. [104] Artistic reception [ edit ] Portrait by Henry Walter Barnett in 1893, sent by Stevenson to J. M. Barrie Memorials to Stevenson [ edit ] Robert Stevenson is remembered on his grandfather's grave in the churchyard of Glasgow Cathedral, though he was buried in Edinburgh Stevenson's gravestone, New Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh

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Edinburgh is surrounded by several hills including Calton Hill and Arthur’s Seat. Edinburgh Castle overlooks the city, and the seat of the Scottish Government at Holyrood is close by. A small number of plans relate to later bridge work by D. & T. Stevenson, including alterations made to North Bridge in Edinburgh in the 1870s. In the South Seas (1896). A collection of Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific.

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Justifying his rejection of an established profession, in 1877 Stevenson offered "An Apology for Idlers". "A happy man or woman", he reasoned, "is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill" and a practical demonstration of "the great Theorem of the Liveableness of Life". So that if they cannot be happy in the "handicap race for sixpenny pieces", let them take their own "by-road". [36] Early writing and travels [ edit ] Literary and artistic connections [ edit ] Stevenson at age 26 in 1876 at Barbizon, France Stevenson at age 26 by Charles Wirgman Christianity is among other things, a very wise, noble and strange doctrine of life ... You see, I speak of it as a doctrine of life, and as a wisdom for this world ... I have a good heart, and believe in myself and my fellow-men and the God who made us all ... There is a fine text in the Bible, I don't know where, to the effect that all things work together for good for those who love the Lord. Strange as it may seem to you, everything has been, in one way or the other, bringing me nearer to what I think you would like me to be. 'Tis a strange world, indeed, but there is a manifest God for those who care to look for him. Reduced Plan of part of the shires of Edinburgh & Haddington shewing the lines of proposed railways from the City of Edinburgh & Port of Leith to the coal fields of Mid & East Lothian, by Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer (1818) MS.5849, 93

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The 19th May saw the start of operations in 1842 and on 25 July the last stone of the top was laid. The masonry of the tower was now 137 feet 11 inches in height and it contained 58,580 cubic feet of material of about 4,308 tons. The lantern arrived in sections and was assembled during August and September of that year. The first mention of Robert Stevenson in connection with the Northern Lighthouse Board was in 1794 when Engineer Thomas Smith, entrusted Robert with the Superintendence of the erection of Pentland Skerries Lighthouse. Robert's mother intended him to join the ministry, so when he was a bit older she enrolled him in the school of a locally famous Glasgow linguist, a Mr Macintyre. But when Robert was 15, she remarried and the family moved to 1 Blair Street, [4] off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Robert's new stepfather was Thomas Smith, a tinsmith, lamp maker, ingenious mechanic, and civil engineer, who had been appointed to the newly formed Northern Lighthouse Board in 1786. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

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Bella Bathhurst has traced the extraordinary careers of the Stevensons, from the first of the lights to the last of the keepers. In sharp, inspired prose she presents a mesmerising account of these little-known Scottish heroes, of whom their better-known literary descendant remarked, 'I might write books till 1900 and not serve humanity so well.' In the West Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle a simple upright stone is inscribed: "RLS – A Man of Letters 1850–1894" by sculptor Ian Hamilton Finlay in 1987. [116] In 2013, a statue of Stevenson as a child with his dog was unveiled by the author Ian Rankin outside Colinton Parish Church. [117] The sculptor of the statue was Alan Herriot, and the money to erect it was raised by the Colinton Community Conservation Trust. [117] Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) – a novella about a dual personality; much adapted in plays and films; also influential in the growth of understanding of the subconscious mind through its treatment of a kind and intelligent physician who turns into a psychopathic monster after imbibing a drug intended to separate good from evil in a personality. In 1815, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Barclay, John Playfair and David Brewster. [9] Stevenson, Robert Louis (8 December 1912). "Prayers written at Vailima". New York,: C. Scribner's sons . Retrieved 8 December 2022– via Internet Archive.

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List of short stories sorted chronologically. [131] Note: does not include collaborations with Fanny found in More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter. Stevenson served as the engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board until 1842 - nearly fifty years. [3] During that time he designed numerous lighthouses and oversaw their construction and the addition of later improvements to them. His many innovations included his choice of light sources and mountings, his reflector design, his use of Fresnel lenses, and his use of rotation and shuttering systems that provided lighthouses with individual signatures — allowing them to be identified by seafarers. For this latter innovation, he was awarded a gold medal by King William I of the Netherlands. Tasked initially with building four lighthouses, the NLB needed someone to provide the lights and it was Smith – although with no direct experience – who won the board’s confidence and the work. Appointed Engineer to the Board, his first project was Kinnaird Head Lighthouse at Fraserburgh on Scotland’s northeast coast. Catriona (1893) – also known as David Balfour; a sequel to Kidnapped, telling of Balfour's further adventures.Stevenson returned to Britain shortly after this first meeting, but Fanny apparently remained in his thoughts, and he wrote the essay "On falling in love" for The Cornhill Magazine. [48] They met again early in 1877 and became lovers. Stevenson spent much of the following year with her and her children in France. [49] In August 1878, she returned to San Francisco and Stevenson remained in Europe, making the walking trip that formed the basis for Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879). But he set off to join her in August 1879, aged 28, against the advice of his friends and without notifying his parents. He took a second-class passage on the steamship Devonia, in part to save money but also to learn how others travelled and to increase the adventure of the journey. [50] He then travelled overland by train from New York City to California. He later wrote about the experience in The Amateur Emigrant. It was a good experience for his writing, but it broke his health. Béranger, Pierre Jean de". Encyclopædia Britannica (11thed.). 1911. – first published in the 9th edition (1875–1889).