Vailima Letters

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Vailima Letters gathers correspondence addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, with accounts of daily journeys, home life and writing. A letter describes meeting an unemployed book-keeper who asks for money because the writer is a Scotchman and offers his portmanteau as security. A letter reports work on The Wrecker, the South Sea book and verses, and suggests that the South Sea chapters will need little change for the volume.

A letter describes dictation in Apia, with Lloyd type-writing the conclusion of Samoa and corrections continuing at home. A letter from Vailima records difficulty making progress with St. Ives and the wish to put the work aside for a year.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).