to Messrs. Chatto and Windus

Bournemouth [August 1887].

DEAR SIRS,—I here enclose the two titles.  Had you not better send me the bargains to sign?  I shall be here till Saturday; and shall have an address in London (which I shall send you) till Monday, when I shall sail.  Even if the proofs do not reach you till Monday morning, you could send a clerk from Fenchurch Street Station at 10.23 A.M. for Galleons Station, and he would find me embarking on board the Ludgate Hill, Island Berth, Royal Albert Dock.  Pray keep this in case it should be necessary to catch this last chance.  I am most anxious to have the proofs with me on the voyage.—Yours very truly,

Robert Louis Stevenson.