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1969.039.0010 - Manuscript
Home from the daisied meadows. Autograph Poem of 11 lines, also several incomplete verses in Stevenson's handwriting (in pencil), 6pp., 3 leaves in all, inlaid with typed transcripts, portrait and blank leaves to form a folio volume, grey levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on side and back, silk end leaves, unpublished. Bound by Stikeman & Co.
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1969.039.0011 - Manuscript
Original Manuscript of Robert Louis Stevenson poem "To A Dusky Woman." Published privately by H. H. McClure in a volume of verse entitled "Teuila." The edition, a very small one, was issued in New York in 1899 for the friends of Isobel Strong. The poems were written by RLS for Mrs. Strong's son, Austin. In cloth case, gold tooled title. 1 folio leaf, six 8 line stanzas, plus 1 stanza voided.
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1969.039.0012 - Manuscript
Manuscript Page, "Pity the Poor Fish" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Unpublished holograph manuscript, forming part of the chapter named "Pages from the Casco's Log" in a manuscript list of chapter headings for the book, "In The South Seas," but has remained unpublished. 1888. Bound beautifully in a fabric covered book, in cloth and leather slipcase, gold tooled title on spine. 1 page, 200 plus words, ink on foolscap.
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1969.039.0013 - Manuscript
Autographed Notes of Studies at Anstruther. 4pp., 4to, inlaid and bound with typed transcripts, portraits and blank leaves to form a folio volume, blue levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on side and back, silk end-leaves. These notes of engineering studies belong to the year 1868, and derive their main interest from the fact that Stevenson, who came of a family of engineers was at one time considering following in the footsteps of his fath...
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1969.039.0014 - Manuscript
Early draft of Poem on Death, autograph MS in pencil. 21 lines on 1p., folio, inlaid and bound with a typed manuscript, portraits and blank leaves to form a volume, blue levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on side and back, silk end papers. Original Autograph Draft of poem published under title Death, to the Dead for Evermore (p. 143, vol. 1) of the Bibliophile Society's edition of Unpublished Manuscripts of Robert Louis Stevenson. The MS...
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1969.039.0015 - Manuscript
"The Summer Sun Shone round me" and "I am like one that has sat along." Two autograph poems, each of three stanzas of four linesm, written on either side of a folio sheet, inlaid with typed transcripts, portraits of the author and his parents, and blank leaves, to form a folio volume. Blue levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on side and back, silk end-leaves. These two poems belong to the year 1871. The first is printewd on pp. 75-76, vol. ...
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1969.039.0016 - Manuscript
"The Gauger's Flute" original manuscript. 1.5 pages in Stevenson's handwriting -- two lines struck out and revised. From the collection of William Harris Arnold, purchased at auction at the Anderson Galleries, page 28, 2/3/24. 1.5pp., 7 stanzas, 28 lines, blue paper, 2 lines struck out, and revised with the lines, 'Over the hills and far away.'
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1969.039.0017 - Manuscript
Small folio (Saranac, 1888). Headed "History of the Master of Ballantrae." In splendid prose, among the best of his short essays, Stevenson recounts the origin of his famous story, written at Dr. Tradeau's sanitarium for Tubercular patients. The first par of this was published (though with some omissions) in Balfour's "Life" but the latter part, over one-third of the total, did not appear there. Inlaid and accompanied by a typed transcri...
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1969.039.0018 - Manuscript
"Her Name", unpublished autograph poem (in pencil) of 12 lines, and "Poem on Death" [which begins "The Look of death.."] Stevenson's handwriting, also unpublished, 12 lines, 2pp., in all, 8vo. All inlaid and bound with typed transcripts, portraits and blank leaves to form folio volume, blue levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on back and side, silk end-leaves.
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1969.039.0019 - Manuscript
"The Relic Taken, What Avails the Shrine?" Autograph poem, dated July 1871, 4 stanzas each of 4 lines, on 1.5pp., folio, inlaid and bound with typed transcript, portraits and blank leaves to form folio volume, blue levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on back and side, silk end-leaves. In ink and pencil.
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1969.039.0020 - Manuscript
Folio sheet containing drafts of verses in Stevenson's handwriting on his portrait by John S. Sargent. Inlaid and bound with typed transcript, portraits and blank leavevs to form folio volume, blue levant morocco gilt, gilt lettering on back and side, silk end-leaves.
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1969.039.0021 - Manuscript
"Note to The Master of Ballantrae". Original manuscript in 6 folio pages, with etching of Stevenson by V. Gribayedoff tipped in, blank pages to fill out to book thickness, bound in full blue morocco, g.t. title by Stikeman.
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1969.039.0022 - Manuscript
Original manuscript draft of the Table of Contents of "The Master of Ballantrae" tipped in, together with typed transcript, etching of Stevenson by Hollyer, and color illustration by W. Hatherell with quotation from the book. Blank pages to fill out to book thickness, g.t. titling and design, full morocco.
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1969.039.0023 - Manuscript
The original and unpublished title and table of contents of "The Master of Ballantrae"; together with the original draft of the quatrain in form varying from that which it appears in the published book. Includes also original drawing by Stevenson, found with his first outline of the book. Various photos of RLS bound in with sufficient blank leaves to fill out to book width, bound in full morocco, g.t. titling and design. 2pp. of outline, 1p....
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1969.043.0047 - Autograph Letter
Original signed autograph letter, 1 p., n.d., n.p. Includes 4 pp. Ms on founding of the Mariposa Sanitary Association in September 1899 (not in the hand of RLS). Subject Miss Ida
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1969.045.0028 - Autograph Letter
Original signed autograph letter to Mr. Carruthers, 1 p., 8vo, January 24, 1893. "Jan 24th 1893 / Dear Mr Carruthers, / Herewith a cheque for the amount of your bill. Many thanks for the news. I enclose, as I think it will interest you, copy of Sewall's letter to Wardlaw Thompson. When you have glances at it please hand it on to Haggard. I am still on the mend but with deliberation. / Yours very truly / Robert...
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1969.045.0029 - Letter
Als. Signed twice by RLS. To his cousin, Katherin de Mattos. "My dear Katherine. The prisoner reserves his defence. HE has been seedy, however; principally sick of the family evil, despondancy; the sun Is gone out utterly; and the breath of the people of this city lies about as a sort of damp, unwholesome fog, in which we go walking with bowed hearts. "
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1969.045.0071 - Manuscript
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The King of Apemama." 2pp. of manuscript (original draft?) of "The King of Apemama" (see the Edinburgh edition of the Works of R. L. Stevenson, Travels and Excursions, Vol. III, p. 316 & pp. 326-27).
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1969.045.0186a - Letter
Autographed Note Signed. This is a blank portion of a printer's galley on which the following appears in Stevenson's hand in ink: "To the Reader (underscored twice). If I receive another proof of this sort, I shall return it at once with the general direction "See MS." I must supose my system of punctuation to be very bad, but it is mine, and shall be adhered to with punctual exactness by any created (?) printer who shall print for me. Robe...
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1969.045.0187 - Print
One large portrait of J. M. Barrie (originally listed as unidentified). Acq. Value - 500.00. Inserted at top and bottom of portrait are two excerpts of a printer's galley in which Stevenson has made in sequence corrections in ink amounting to 47 words. Apparently the galley relates to a story in which "Thrums" appears. Text is from "Sentimental Tommy" by J. M. Barrie. This is a black and white lithographic print of a portrait of J. M. Ba...
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