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0000.087.0318 - Drawing
Original woodcut drawing for "The Pirate and the Apothecary . . . Scene the First." Made at Davos-Platz, Switzerland, winter of 1881. Stationery of Stonehedge, R.D. Route No. 1, Santa Barbara. A.L.s. by Isobel Strong, Honolulu, Jan. 29, 1914.

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0000.104 - Autograph Letter
Original signed autograph letter, 2/3 p., 8vo, n.d., n.p. "Here is a piece from my proofs: use it or not as you please. I send it because it seems not bad to my partial eyes . . . Shall we see you again soon in Bournemouth?" Subject Campbell

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1868.001 - Autograph Letter
Original signed autograph letter, 12 pp., October 2, 1868, Pulteney Hotel (Wick). Written when Stevenson was 17 years old. Subject Margaret Isabella Stevenson

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1889.002 - Autograph Letter
Original signed autograph letter, 3 pp., folio, Schooner Equator at sea 240 miles from Samoa, Sunday, 1st Dec., 1889. Subject Margaret Isabella Stevenson

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1890.002 - Autograph Letter
Original signed autograph letter, 2 pp., folio, Steamer Janet Nicoll, April 1890. Subject Margaret Isabella Stevenson

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1890.009 - Autograph Letter
Original signed autograph letter , 1 p. folio, September 4, 1890, Lubeck, Sidney harbor. "You will probably curse me and very justly . . ." Written on "Norddeutscher Lloyd-Bremen" stationery. Subject Williamson

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1893.013 - Autograph Letter
Original signed autograph letter, 4 pp., April 26, 1893, New York City. Includes envelope. Subject T.G.A. Macgregor Stevenson

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1969.001.0116b - Manuscript
This is a single page of the origininal manuscript of Stevenson's "St. Ives" which had been inserted into a copy of the finished book (Heinneman, 1898). Consists of one page, 4to, comprising about 450 words, written in ink. This page contains many characteristic deletions and additions by Stevenson. This portion of the MS. can be found on pages 88 and 89 of the volume.

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1969.023.0001 - Drawing
Script for Treasure Island a collaborative production written by Lloyd Osbourne and illustrated by Austin Strong. Contains 4 original color images by Austin Strong. Concept designs for scenes. Owned by Lloyd Osbourne

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1969.030.0003 - Autograph Letter
ALs from RLS to his parents ( "My dear people" ) written at La Solitude, Hyeres-Les-Palmiers, in France. Later marked on back in another hand with the date "May 19 (perhaps) 1893" though the content of the letter clearly indicates it must have been penned in 1883. In the letter RLS discusses work on Prince Otto, daily schedule, and requests calling cards for himself, Fanny and Lloyd. Original signed autograph letter, 1-1/2 pp., May 19, 1...

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1969.030.0014 - Autograph Letter
Original signed autograph letter, 3 pp., folio, Samoa, 21-22 May 1893. Subject Margaret Isabella Stevenson RLS gives his mother all the news and gossip of the Island of Apia, Samoa, the effects of an influenza epidemic that raged in the locality, etc. (notes that Belle is sick with the influenza.) Unpublished. Bound with a portrait (etching by Valerian Gribayedoff) and blank leaves to form a folio volume. Blue lev...

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1969.039.0001 - Manuscript
Before this Little Gift Come, Autographed Manuscript Poem of eight lines on 1p., oblong 8vo, inlaid and bound with a typed transcript, portrait and blank leaves, to form a folio volume, grey levant morocco, gilt lettering on side and back, silk end leaves, unpublished. bound by Stikeman & Co.

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1969.039.0002 - Manuscript
On The Morals And Ethics Of Life, Autograph MS. Essay (without title) addressed to Young Men, covering 9pp., folio, red levant morocco gil;t, gilt lettering on side, unpublished. This interesting MS Essay is somewhat in the style of Lay Morals and probably written about the same time.

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1969.039.0003 - Manuscript
Voluntary, unpublished autographed poem, dated July 1875, 5 stanzas each of 7 lines, on 2pp., folio, at the foot of the second page is another poem of 6 lines. Oblong 8vo, inlaid and bound with typed transcripts, portrait and blank leaves to form one of two folio volumes, lilac levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on side and back, silk end leaves. Bound by Stikeman & Co.

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1969.039.0004 - Manuscript
Unpublished poem, commencing, Go,Little Book, introducing Prince Otto, 7 stanzas, on 5pp., oblong 8vo, all inlaid and bound with typed transcript, portrait and blank leaves to form one of two folio volumes, lilac levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on side and back, silk end leaves. Bound by Stikeman & Co.

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1969.039.0005 - Manuscript
The Sick Child -- O Mother, lay your hand upon my brow, autographed poem of 6 stanzas on 2pp., 4to, inlaid and bound wiht typed transcript, portrait and blank leaves to form a folio volume, red levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on back and side, silk end leaves. The Sick Child was published in Underwoods, 1887. Book 1 (No. xxci, p. b6) but has only four stanzas. The last two stanzas in this MS have never been published.

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1969.039.0006 - Manuscript
Ad Se Ipsum, unpublished autographed poem of eight lines, inlaid with typed transcript, portraits and blank leaves to form a folio volume, lilac levant morocco, gilt lettering on side and back, silk end leaves. Bound by Stikeman & Co.

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1969.039.0007 - Manuscript
To Time, autograph poem of 16 lines on 1p., 4to, unpublished. Judge me not light, tho' light at times I seem. autograph poem, signed 1p., 8vo., with reply in verse to the foregoing covering 2pp., and two notes signed by Stevenson. Together with 2 further pages of fragmentary verses, 4to. All bound to form a folio volume, in red levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on side. BOUND three Original Mss - portions of Verse An Ode "To...

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1969.039.0008 - Manuscript
On The Art Of Literature. Autograph Essay of 17pp., divided into two chapters, I, Forms and II, Matter and Style; the first Chapter is again sub-divided into sections dealing with Narrative, Dramatic, Philosophical and Lyrical work; written in a 4to note-book and preserved in a blue levant morocco slip-case, gilt lettering on side and back. Apparently unpublished. Stevenson in 1885 published an "Essay On Style in Literature" in "The Contemporary...

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1969.039.0009 - Manuscript
Dedicatory Poem for Underwoods, unpublished autograph poem of three stanzas of ten lines, on 1.5pp., folio (1887), inlaid with typed transcript, portrait and blank leaves to form a folio volume, lilac levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on side and back, silk end leaves. bound by Stikeman & Co.

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