''Memories and Portraits'' is a collection of essays by
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll a ...
, first published in
1887
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
* January 20
** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl ...
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Contents
*I. The Foreigner at Home
*II. Some College Memories
*III. Old Morality
*IV. A College Magazine
*V. An Old Scotch Gardener
*VI. Pastoral
*VII. The Manse
*VIII. Memories of an Islet
*IX. Thomas Stevenson
*X. Talk And Talkers: First Paper
*XI. Talk And Talkers: Second Paper
*XII. The Character of Dogs
*XIII. "A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured"
*XIV. A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas's
*XV. A Gossip on Romance
*XVI. A Humble Remonstrance
External links
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1887 non-fiction books
Books by Robert Louis Stevenson
Essay collections
Chatto & Windus books
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