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The Cruise of the Janet Nichol e d i t e d b y R o s l y n J o l l y The Cruise of the Janet Nichol among the South Sea Islands A DIARY BY MRS ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON UNSW PRESS A UNSW Press book Published by University of New South Wales Press Ltd University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA www.unswpress.com.au © Arrangement,introduction and notes Roslyn Jolly 2003 This book is copyright.Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study,research, criticism or review,as permitted under the Copyright Act,no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission.Inquiries should be addressed to the publisher. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Stevenson,Fanny Van de Grift,1840-1914. The cruise of the Janet Nichol among the South Sea Islands : a diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson. ISBN 0 86840 606 6. 1.Stevenson,Fanny Van de Grift,1840–1914. 2.Stevenson, Robert Louis,1850–1894. 3.Stevenson,Robert Louis, 1850–1894 – Journeys – Oceania. 4.Oceania – Description and travel. I.Jolly,Roslyn. II.Title. 919.604 Design Di Quick Cover photo Reproduced by permission of The Writer’s Museum,Edinburgh. Printer Everbest Printing C o n t e n t s Acknowledgments 9 List of illustrations 10 Introduction by Roslyn Jolly 13 Note on the text 45 Note on the photographs 47 Preface by Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson 49 The Cruise of the Janet Nichol among the South Sea Islands 51 Explanatory notes 198 Further reading 204 For Simon and Alice, my travelling companions R.J. (cid:1) A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s (cid:1) ll photographs in this book are reproduced by permis- A sion of The Writers’ Museum, Edinburgh. Quotations from Fanny Stevenson’s manuscript diary of the Janet Nicoll cruise,and from her recipe book,are by permis- sion of the Robert Louis Stevenson Silverado Museum, St Helena, California. I am grateful to the University of New South Wales for allowing me to undertake a Special Studies Program in 2000,and for providing a University Research Support Program Grant in 2002, which enabled me to carry out the research for this book.An Australian Research Council Small Grant in 1999 also assisted the project. I would like to thank Elaine Greig for her help in supplying the photographs,and Roger Swearingen and Ernest Mehew for generously sharing their knowledge of the Stevensons.I am grateful for the assis- tance given me by Ann Kindred (Associate Curator/Museum Archivist) and Edmond Reynolds (Curator) at the Robert Louis Stevenson Silverado Museum, St Helena, California; Kris Quist and staff at the Stevenson House Museum, Monterey, California; Susan Snyder and staff at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley;and staff at the National Library of Scotland.Thanks also to Sandra Knowles and Rebecca Sheehan for research assistance. My deepest thanks are to Simon Petch, who encouraged and supported this project from beginning to end. 9
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