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The article discusses that the chronicle of author Graham Greene's ultimately abortive project on the biography of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson can be traced in the archive of his papers, in the John J. Bums library in Boston College. Topics include Greene's statement that his life of Stevenson would contain a great deal of new material, and Stevenson was anything but distracted in money matters.

An introduction to the journal is presented which discusses various papers published withn the issue, including one on the historical context of Tom Stoppard's play "The Hard Problem," one on the history of the biography genre, and another on beauty as a form of love in Paul Guyer's "A History of Modern Aesthetics."