Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to Mrs Sitwell, afterwards Lady Colvin.
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a mahogany box (now missing), being enclosed individually in envelopes, numbered up to 104, but numbers 56 and 90 were withdrawn from the collection and sold to James Bain, according to a note of Sir Sidney Colvin, dated 1925, contained in the box.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 other recent editions of Robert Louis Stevenson’s works.
Dates
- Creation: 1873-1894, undated.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
2 Volumes
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
457 folios.
The foliation is divided between 2 volumes:
(i) folios 1-279;
(ii) folios 280-457.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bequeathed, 1927, by Sir Sidney Colvin.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
Archives and Manuscript Division
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