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Ben Downing reviews “Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson” edited by Ernest Mehew.

Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his novels Treasure Island (1881), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and The Master of Ballantrae (1889). Stevenson’s biography of Pierre-Jean de Béranger appeared

British Representative Nicholas Rankin was born way too late to employ the bragging right his predecessors had enjoyed, that of having a personal friendship wit

“My dear Sidney Colvin—the journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the b

info@robertlouisstevensonmemorialcottage.org “In some ways I am sorry that he (Robert Louis Stevenson) went to the South Seas. He might have been here — a cheery old boy of 80. He would have been just as much a boy at 80 as at 20. His uncle, George Balfour, came to see me soon after he had gone to the South Seas. … He said, ‘I misdoubt Louis’ going to the South Seas. It will undoubtedly do him good at first in that mild climate, but it will be like pouring new wine into an old bottle,’ and that, of course, is what happened. He died, not of the pulmonary complaint which he came her...