CONTENTS: Across the plains. --The old Pacific capital (Monterey). -- Random memories. --Random memories (continued). --The Latern-bearers. --A chapter on dreams. --Beggars. --Letters to a young gentleman. --Pulvis et umbra. --A Christmas sermon.
Summary
After journeying from Scotland to California to meet his fiancee, Stevenson spent two months honeymooning in the state. This book is the third of his three travel memoirs, preceded byℓThe Amateur EmigrantℓandℓSilverado Squatters. This volume also contains The Lantern-Bearers, Beggars and other papers.