sentences:  While teaching at Greenock Academy, Stephens wrote some minor verse and two short novels ('Rutson Morley' and 'Virtue Le Moyne') which were published in Sharpe's London Magazine in 1861–63.Stephens migrated to Queensland in 1866, possibly for health reasons.He was a tutor with the Barker family of squatters at Tamrookum station for some time and in 1870 entered the Queensland Education Department.