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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Nonsense verses and English translations of Robert Louis Stevenson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11145
Scope and Contents

Some written on Advocates` Library paper.

Dates: late 19th century.

Photocopy of a letter, undated, of Robert Louis Stevenson to his mother, Margaret Stevenson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9506
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With photocopies of notes, 1894 and undated, concerning Stevenson by Charles Baxter and A S Neilson.

Dates: 1894 and undated.

Photocopy of a reminiscence, 1937, of Rhoda Balfour concerning the quarrel between Robert Louis Stevenson and William E Henley.

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Identifier: Acc.9846
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With covering note by her son, Prof Michael Balfour.

Dates: 1937 and 1989.

Robert Louis Stevenson, "The History of Moses" (1856).

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Identifier: Acc.10356
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Text as dictated to Stevenson`s mother, with his signature and sketches illustrating the work.

With copy of "The Happy Sunday Book of Painted Pictures" (London, undated) given to Stevenson as a prize, and a copy of the privately printed edition of the Stevenson manuscript by A Edward Newton, and a note by Newton on his acquisition of the manuscript.

Dates: 1856-1919 and undated.