In the meantime, he published his first solo volume of poetry, "On Viol and Flute" (1873) and a work of criticism, "Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe" (1879). Gosse and Robert Louis Stevenson first met while teenagers, and after 1879, when Stevenson came to London on occasion, he would stay with Gosse and his family. In 1875 Gosse became a translator at the Board of Trade, a post which he held until 1904 and gave him time for his writing and enabled him to marry and start a family.