Manuscripts

Henry James: a sonnet

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Description: Inside the front cover is a miniature of Robert Louis Stevenson set into the binding.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1887.
Call number: mssHM 2389
Creator: Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Charles Baker, 1918.
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Robert Louis Stevenson collection

Manuscripts

A collection of manuscripts and correspondence related to Robert Louis Stevenson. The manuscripts include poems, essays, notes, fragments from Stevenson's novels, and a pencil sketch. The correspondents in the collection include Thomas Spencer Baynes, Andrew Chatto, Sidney Colvin, Andrew Lang, David Christie Murray, Lloyd Osbourne, James Payn, Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson, and Thomas Stevenson. The collection also includes a forgery of a letter from Stevenson to Mr. Carruthers, 1893 (mssHM 46122).

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Robert Louis Stevenson collection

Manuscripts

mssStevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson letter to Francis Marion Crawford

Manuscripts

An autograph, signed, and undated letter written from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; contextual details identify the addressee as F. Marion Crawford and date the letter either 1891, February or 1893, March. The letter is addressed to "Dear Sir" and Robert Louis Stevenson admits he did not think very highly of Crawford's work when he first read it; he has now revised that opinion and praises Crawford's writing and career making this a "fan" letter from one celebrated author to another. On the verso of the letter is an extended signed postscript concerning music.

mssHM 83785

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Robert Louis Stevenson drawing and notes

Manuscripts

This material includes four unsigned and undated pages in the hand of Robert Louis Stevenson. The first page is a pencil drawing of a masted ship; the next page begins "The childish old man..." and contains quotes and notes from William Wyatt Gill's "Myths and Songs from the South Pacific" (London : Henry S. King, 1876). The following page is numbered "58" and headed "Part V / Whites and White Influence in the Pacific," which appears to be part of a manuscript held by the Huntington: drafts of "In the South Seas" (mssHM 2421).The final page is a numbered list dealing with debts, mortgages, and bills.

mssHM 44078

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Robert Louis Stevenson letters to Will Hicok Low

Manuscripts

A collection of letters and one poem written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The poem is entitled Phasellulus Loquitur: The Canoe Speaks; the letters are to Will Hicok Low, an American artist, muralist, and writer on art. Every letter in the collection is accompanied by extensive explanatory notes written by Low and printed page proofs from Low's book Chronicle of Friendships. The collection also includes a cardboard folder of notes by Low with typewritten copies the Stevenson's letters; one letter to Berthe Julienne Low, cookbook author and wife of Will Hicok Low; and one letter to Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English artist and art critic.

mssHM 8908-8951

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George Gostling letterbook

Manuscripts

Letterbook of George Gostling, Doctors Commons proctor for prize administrations in High Court of Admiralty. The volume has a modern binding, with the label of Robert A. Cassall, Stationer, pasted onto inside front cover; there is some water damage, especially in the beginning of the volume, with some loss of text.

mssHM 55660

Henry James: a sonnet

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