“and when I feel what a weak and fallible vessel I was thrust into this hurly-burly, and with what marvellous kindness the wind has been tempered to my frailties, I think I should be a strange kind of ass to feel anything but gratitude”

Our thanks go to the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, who funded this project.

We would like to send a special thank you to The Writers’ Museum (The Edinburgh Museums Service) and especially Denise Brace, who has been endlessly supportive and helpful. The Writers’ Museum contributed many of the images we display on the RLS Website, and they have really made the site what it is today.

Thanks also go to Prof Richard Dury for generously donating the material on the original RLS Website at Bergamo University. 

The RLS Website owes a debt of gratitude to many other organizations and individuals who have been so enthusiastic about this project. Without their support, the RLS Website would not have been possible.

Thank you all for your kindness and encouragement – the web team really appreciates it.

In addition to the thanks we have extended above we would like to thank:

Robert-Louis Abrahamson for his help with our essays section of the website, particularly for his excellent summaries of Virginibus Puerisque and Familiar Studies of Men and Books. We would also like to thank him for his support throughout the project.

Hilary Beattie for her advice on sourcing images for the site.

The Robert Louis Stevenson Collection, General Collection Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, for permission to use images of RLS.

Vianney Boissonade for his work on the RLS wiki. The information gathered there, and his contacts with the Beinecke library have helped to inform and enhance our gallery pages.

Oliver S. Buckton, for sending us a synopsis for his work Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative and the Colonial Body (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007).

Gwen Enstam for publicizing our site on The Bottle Imp, a Scottish Studies Ezine. You can visit The Bottle Imp at: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/SWE/TBI/

The Brandywine River Museum for sending us images of their museum for us to post on the web.

Mark Butterworth for kindly contributing the magic lantern slide of RLS that features on our home page.

Capital Collections for digitizing the Writers’ Museum’s Samoan Albums compiled by the Stevensons. We would like to extend special thanks to Alison Stoddart and Susan Varga, who were extremely helpful.

Capital Collections is the Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services image library. Please visit the website, http://www.capitalcollections.org.uk/ to find out more about this excellent resource.

City of Literature for supporting our bid for this project. Visit their website at: http://www.cityofliterature.com/.

Tom Clelland for giving us permission to play the version of RLS's "Aberlady Links" that he produced at our launch party. We would also like to thank him for sending us the CD Songs from the Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson: From a Garden of Songs. "Scottish songwriters set to music the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson with Robin Laing, Tom Clelland, Davie Scott, Christine Kydd, Duncan McCrone, Wendy Weatherby, Peter Clark, Norman Chalmers, John Malcolm, Billy Stewart, Ursula Laing and Heather Young. This CD also includes Robert Louis Stevenson's own composition, 'Aberlady Links'".

Ann C. Colley, for sending us synopses for her works Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004) and Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998).

Mike David for his help with out Works section, and particularly for his summaries of Memories and Portraits, A Footnote to History, Underwoods and Ballads.

David Duddles for kindly sending the web team a copy of his book The Silverado Squatters in Picture, ed. by David Duddles, photography and design by Craig Duddles (Orlando: Blue Pylon Creative, 2008) and also an abridged audio book on two discs that he compiled of The Silverado Squatters. Please visit his website http://www.silveradosquatters.com to find out more.

Penny Fielding at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century (SWINC) for her support of the website.

Gerry Gapinski for contributing his wonderfully Gothic artwork to the Edinburgh section of the website. To find out more about Gapinski’s work and buying it see http://www.gerrygapinski.com

Marjory Gibb for donating her composition “Hills of Home for Recorder Orchestra”, which was inspired by RLS’s music.

Morgan Holmes for his invaluable advice in helping us to create an in-house style sheet. Morgan really helped us to understand writing for the web – thank you!

Internet Archive for creating such an incredible collection of digitized books, some of which users can download from our site. Please visit the Internet Archive to find out more about the many resources they hold on their site: http://www.archive.org.

William B. Jones, Jr. for providing us with a summary of Songs of Travel.

Wendy Katz for her summary of The Amateur Emigrant.

George Landow of Brown University who runs the Victorian Web for his advice on web copyright and on organizing a scholarly resource online. He also kindly publicized our site on his own: http://www.victorianweb.org/.

Rita Leonard for her enthusiasm about the website. Rita owns a tearoom on Saranac Lake near to the Baker Cottage Museum. See her website at http://www.therobertlouisstevensontearoom.com/.

Jean Leslie and Roland Paxton for allowing us to use an image on our website that appeared in their publication Bright Lights: The Stevenson Engineers (Roland Paxton: 1999).

Alan Marchbank, who allowed us to use some of the images from his detailed and excellent powerpoint presentation on Stevenson.

National Library of Scotland for all of their support in holding the RLS Website Launch Event there on 13 November 2009. Please visit the NLS website to find out about the library’s excellent work: http://www.nls.uk/.

Glenda Norquay, for sending us synopses for her works Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading: The Reader as Vagabond (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007) and R.L. Stevenson on Fiction: An Anthology of Literary and Critical Essays (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999).

Nigel Planer for his support of the website.

Julia Reid, for sending us a synopsis for her work Robert Louis Stevenson, Science and the Fin de Siècle (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Robert Louis Stevenson Club of Edinburgh for their enthusiasm for and support of the project.

Wes Rogers for his advice on sourcing images for the site.

Willie Scobie for allowing us to use his article “The Tartans of Kidnapped" on our site. This article was reproduced from the Scottish Tartans Authority monthly newsletter, the Tartan Herald.

Scottish Book Trust for their support of the RLS Website.

Silverado Museum, and in particular their curator Dorothy Mackay-Collins for their support of the project. The web team would like to thank Dorothy especially for donating the Fanny Stevenson cookbook, Treasured Recipes and the museum’s edition of The Silverado Squatters to the RLS Website Library.

The Stevenson Community, particularly those who helped us by giving us feedback and taking the survey we sent. Your ideas really helped to strengthen the site. Special thanks go to: Robert-Louis Abrahamson, Neil Macara-Brown, Nancy Bunge, Mafalda Cipollone, Jenni Calder, Olive Classe, Laurence Davies, Jack Fleming, William Gray, Morgan Holmes, Tom Hubbard, William B Jones Jr, Richard Lyons, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Elaine Parks, Elayne Wareing-Fitzpatrick and Roderick Watson.

The Stevenson House on 17 Heriot Row and in particular John and Felicitas Macfie for donating images of Stevenson’s home to the RLS Website. You can learn more about this property at http://www.stevenson-house.co.uk/.

Stevenson House State Historical Monument and in particular Kris Quist, not only for donating images of the museum to the website, but also for granting us permission to host the recording of Belle Strong describing the day that Stevenson died.

Alasdair Swan for his endless patience and understanding - the website is indebted to you.

Will Tissot for donating the photograph he took of Baker Cottage, Saranac Lake, to the RLS Website.

Rare Books and Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, for giving us permission to use their Stevenson images on our website. Thanks particularly to Jeffrey Makala for liaising with us. The University of South Carolina has an excellent website on Stevenson, based on an exhibition held at the University in 1994-95: http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/rls/rls.html.

Roderick Watson for his help with the Journal of Stevenson Studies section of the website.