Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878) - a paean to his birthplace, it provides Stevenson's personal introduction to each part of the city and some history behind the various sections of the city and its most famous buildings. Bella Bathurst's engaging story of three generations of the Stevenson family is not simply the tale of the Scottish Enlightenment. It's not just the story of that time when its engineers and scientists first mastered our relationship with a still savage nature. It is also the narrative of a remarkable dynasty and its struggle with commerce and art. In January 1888, aged 37, in response to American press coverage of the Land War in Ireland, Stevenson penned a political essay (rejected by Scribner's magazine and never published in his lifetime) that advanced a broadly conservative theme: the necessity of "staying internal violence by rigid law". Notwithstanding his title, "Confessions of a Unionist", Stevenson defends neither the union with Britain (she had "majestically demonstrated her incapacity to rule Ireland") nor "landlordism" (scarcely more defensible in Ireland than, as he had witnessed it, in the goldfields of California). Rather he protests the readiness to pass "lightly" over crimes—"unmanly murders and the harshest extremes of boycotting"—where these are deemed "political". This he argues is to "defeat law" (which is ever a "compromise") and to invite "anarchy": it is "the sentimentalist preparing the pathway for the brute". [72] Final years in the Pacific [ edit ] Pacific voyages [ edit ] Stevenson playing a flageolet in Hawaii ca. 1889 Stevenson and King Kalākaua of Hawaii, c. 1889 The author with his wife and their household in Vailima, Samoa, c. 1892 Stevenson's birthday fete at Vailima, November 1894 Stevenson on the veranda of his home at Vailima, c. 1893 Burial on Mount Vaea in Samoa, 1894 His tomb on Mount Vaea, c. 1909 Biographical Sketch of the Late Robert Stevenson: Civil Engineer (1851), by Alan Stevenson. From Google Book Search The Miracle Lighthouse, National Geographic Channel Documentary, October, 2007, BBC Production, 2003

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David Stevenson’s sons, David and Charles, also pursued lighthouse engineering from the late 19th century to the late 1930s, building nearly 30 more lighthouses. This material cannot usually be geographically located as it does not have a specific place associated with it. It is findable using the text-based search. These types of plans cover the whole period during which the Stevensons were active, although the subject matter covered changes with the specific research interests of the family members who were active at the time. The masonry work on which the lighthouse rests was constructed to such a high standard that it has not been replaced or adapted in 200 years. [5] The lamps and reflectors were replaced in 1843; the original ones are now in the lighthouse at Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland, where they are currently on display. [6] The working of the lighthouse has been automated since 24 October 1988. [1] The Northern Lighthouse Board, which has had its headquarters at 84 George Street in Edinburgh since 1832, remotely monitors the light.Plan showing alterations to the River Oich at Loch Oich to construct the Caledonian Canal (1853). MS.5846, 20 In 1786, the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established and a few years later Robert Stevenson was appointed their Chief Engineer. It was the beginning of a partnership spanning almost two centuries and four generations of the same family, who became known as the 'Lighthouse Stevensons'.

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Stevenson served as an apprentice civil engineer to his stepfather, Thomas Smith. He was so successful at it that, at age 19, he was given responsibility for supervising the erection of a lighthouse on Little Cumbrae island in the River Clyde. His next project was overseeing the building of lighthouses on Orkney. While working on these projects, he continued his civil engineering studies: He diligently practised surveying and architectural drawing, and attended maths and physics lectures at the Andersonian Institute in Glasgow.The archive also contains railway plans by other mid-century railway engineers, including James Jardine and Thomas Grainger and John Miller, possibly collected by the Stevensons for reference. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Sir Graham Balfour - Delphi Classics (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. 17 July 2017. ISBN 9781786568007. Archived from the original on 18 April 2023 . Retrieved 19 March 2023. 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 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.