A letter to Mr. Stevenson's friends.
Osbourne, Lloyd,1868-1947.
Skelton, John,Sir,1831-1897,former owner.StEdNL: RB.s.2870
[Apia, Samoa] : For private circulation,
MDCCCXCIV [1894].
Contains items written by Lloyd Osbourne, Bazett M. Haggard, James H. Mulligan, A.W. Mackay, and William E. Clarke concerning the death and funeral of Robert Louis Stevenson and Edmund Gosse's poem "To Tusitala in Vailima"; at the end are some verses in Samoan.
Printed in Apia, Samoa, at the office of The Samoa times.
On title page is a quote from Stevenson's "Will o' the Mill": I have been waiting for you these many years. Give me your hand, and welcome.
Two issues have been identified. A: First issue, on thin wove paper, with watermark: Palo Alto. B: Another, later, issue, on heavier wove paper, without watermark (see Beinecke & McKay, Stevenson library, 1370 and 1371)
From the library of Sir John Skelton, writer and advocate; this copy also has the envelope in which the book was posted to Skelton from Apia, the address is in the hand of Margaret Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson's mother, complete with Samoan stamp, and with "via San Francisco" written on it.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894