Autograph letter signed : Penicuik, Scotland, to [John Alexander] Hammerton, 1903 February 10.

Granting permission to use any of his old articles on "R.L.S." [i.e., Robert Louis Stevenson] and going on to say that he had wished to do something about Stevenson soon after his death, but that Mrs. Stevenson's reported speech remarking that "His friends hastened to make money out of him [i.e., Stevenson]" prevented him; stating that he has in his possession some 30 "remarkably outspoken and personal" letters by Stevenson, "But both Mr. Colvin & Mr. Andrew Lane agree that they cannot be published within one particular lifetime, at any rate. So they rest on the shelf of a safe in the meantime"; sending him some verses Stevenson had sent him and a copy of Crockett's own book, The stickit minister's wooing, specifying that Hammerton should quote Crockett's original dedication to Stevenson should he choose to use it; quoting a letter Stevenson wrote him in response to an article [i.e., "The apprenticeship of Robert Louis Stevenson"] by Crockett published in the Bookman in March of 1893, with a note on Stevenson's fondness for onions; thanking Hammerton for his positive comments on Crockett's work and discussing his latest books, including his novel, Flower-o'-the corn, and complaining that the staff of Good words are "playing the Devil" with his photographs, and won't pay for good paper or printing.