Manuscripts

Notebook: a fragment

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Description: Rough scrawls of various unidentified poems; experiments in metre. Title on volume: Six Sheets Belonging to the South Seas Period.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1889.
Call number: mssHM 2401
Creator: Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson Galleries sale, February 1920.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Notebook: fragments from two different books

Manuscripts

mssHM 2458

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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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Journal kept during two visits to the South Seas

Manuscripts

Volume 1 contains part I, volume 2 contains parts II-IV. The unbound manuscript was removed from the original green paper box by Huntington staff and the pages were placed in mylar sleeves and bound into two volumes.

mssHM 2412

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Music scores

Manuscripts

Two volumes housed in one folder. Volume 2 with damaged spine and loose front cover.

mssHM 2397

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

Manuscripts

This is a first draft of the poem, it was later revised and printed under the title: Death, to the Dead for Evermore.

mssHM 2399

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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

Notebook: a fragment

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