STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph letter signed ("R L S") TO HIS PARENTS, Skerryvore, Bournemouth, May 1886. 3 pages, 8vo, on tan paper, an inch tear at center fold. "IT IS A VERY UPHILL JOB TO GET THROUGH WORK [ON 'KIDNAPPED']" "I made a sortie yesterday, the weather being lovely, and thoroughly played myself out: I cannot take exercise. Sam [his relative and collaborator Lloyd Osbourne] seems to have another cold, which is most disheartening...I write for Sam's eyes in a light which scarce enables me to write clearly...There is nothing wrong with me, only digestion and rheumatics, and having taken a little walk with its usual fatal results on my strength and condition. The weather has been sublime these two days back...It is a very uphill job to get through work; I have only today finished the famous chapter [in Kidnapped , published 1886] on which I spent (Ginger has walked over the letter) all my time at Matlock." Provenance : Autograph Letters, Original Manuscripts...from the Library of...Stevenson , Part I, Anderson Galleries, 23 November 1914, lot 126.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph letter signed ("R L S") TO HIS PARENTS, Skerryvore, Bournemouth, May 1886. 3 pages, 8vo, on tan paper, an inch tear at center fold. "IT IS A VERY UPHILL JOB TO GET THROUGH WORK [ON 'KIDNAPPED']" "I made a sortie yesterday, the weather being lovely, and thoroughly played myself out: I cannot take exercise. Sam [his relative and collaborator Lloyd Osbourne] seems to have another cold, which is most disheartening...I write for Sam's eyes in a light which scarce enables me to write clearly...There is nothing wrong with me, only digestion and rheumatics, and having taken a little walk with its usual fatal results on my strength and condition. The weather has been sublime these two days back...It is a very uphill job to get through work; I have only today finished the famous chapter [in Kidnapped , published 1886] on which I spent (Ginger has walked over the letter) all my time at Matlock." Provenance : Autograph Letters, Original Manuscripts...from the Library of...Stevenson , Part I, Anderson Galleries, 23 November 1914, lot 126.
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