Collection name. Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, Novelist
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of ‘Underwoods’ (London, 1888) by Robert Louis Stevenson, with two letters of Stevenson to Sir Herbert Maxwell, 1894, inserted.
File
Identifier: MS.19642
Scope and Contents
Two other letters to Sir Herbert Maxwell dated 1916 and 1929 are also inserted.
Dates:
1894, 1916, 1929.
Five pages of pencilled notes made by R L Stevenson during a civil law lecture, when he was reading for the bar in 1873-1875.
File
Identifier: MS.9822
Scope and Contents
The notes include a few caricature drawings and end with scraps of verse. An engraving of R L Stevenson by S Hollyer is prefixed.
Dates:
[?1874.]
Letters of R L Stevenson to W E Henley with a poem by Stevenson (first line: 'The Gods are dead. Perhaps they are. God knows') and the proof of a woodcut made by Stevenson at Davos in 1882.
File
Identifier: MS.9821
Dates:
1882-1884.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Lang, and Sir J M Barrie.
Series
Identifier: MS.9755
Dates:
1873-1935.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to Mrs Sitwell, afterwards Lady Colvin.
Series
Identifier: MS.99
Scope and Contents
The letters were in a mahogany box (now missing), being enclosed individually in envelopes, numbered up to 104, but numbers 56 and 90 were withdrawn from the collection and sold to James Bain, according to a note of Sir Sidney Colvin, dated 1925, contained in the box.The same note states that all portions of letters which had not appeared in print by April 1925 are indicated by marginal lines in brackets in pencil, the unmarked portions having been printed in the Tusitala and...
Dates:
1873-1894, undated.
Notebook and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19637-19641
Dates:
1882-1883, undated.
Poems and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3788-3794
Scope and Contents
All, except the poems in MS.3791, are accompanied by transcripts.
Dates:
1881-1887, undated.
Setting by Robert Louis Stevenson, circa 1890, of an air by J S Bach from the Cantata number 68 'Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt', for two flageolets; and two photographs, circa 1890-1894, undated, of Stevenson, one taken at Vailima.
File
Identifier: MS.9756
Dates:
[Circa 1890-1894], undated.