Manuscripts

Soon eyes are tired with sunshine...: untitled poem

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Description: This is a first draft of the poem, it was later revised and printed under the title: Death, to the Dead for Evermore.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1878.
Call number: mssHM 2399
Creator: Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson Galleries sale, lot 923, February 1920.
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Yo Espero

Manuscripts

Handwritten draft (autograph manuscript signed), in pencil, of the novelette "Yo Espero," with two title pages. Includes annotations in an unknown hand. Versos blank. Signed "Caroline Duer" under printed poem on the first title page.

mssHM 34551

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The Silverado Squatters: Some notes of a health seeker in California

Manuscripts

Both covers are missing, spine is damaged. This is the original diary; it was reworked later in Davos, France, for the printed version which appeared in 1883.

mssHM 650

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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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Thought is driven out of doors tonight...: untitled poem

Manuscripts

mssHM 2400

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Decoration Day anti-slavery poem

Manuscripts

An anonymous poem written on the occasion of Decoration Day, a precursor to Memorial Day first officially celebrated on May 1868. The first celebration of the Union dead took place in Charleston, S.C. on May 1, 1865. The poem begins with: "To Day a Nation mourns her sons / Who died for Liberty. / She mourns above those faithful ones / Whose blood set thousands free." The poem celebrates the new era when "through loyal Chief, and Patriot Band / The blacks and whites now equal stand." .

mssHM 83161

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Notebook: a fragment

Manuscripts

Rough scrawls of various unidentified poems; experiments in metre. Title on volume: Six Sheets Belonging to the South Seas Period.

mssHM 2401

Soon eyes are tired with sunshine...: untitled poem

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