STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph letter signed ("R.L.S.") TO HIS MOTHER, n.p., n.d., [Vailima, Apia, Samoa] docketed "4 December 1893" in an unidentified hand, 1 page, 8vo, a bit foxed, mounted by integral blank leaf, bound with calligraphic title-page in small folio-size red morocco, gilt-lettered, red morocco-backed cloth slipcase , a brief message: "My dear mother, To the devil with this mail, it has come upon us so that I have no time to do anything. When are you thinking of coming home? We begin to think it high time. April or May should be your latest. Your R.L.S.," Stevenson sale, Part III, Anderson Galleries, 17 February 1916, lot 239--Portrait photograph of Stevenson showing him facing camera, three-quarters length, right elbow leaning on chair top, cigarette in right hand, n.p., n.d., 5 7/8 x 3 7/8in. (148 x 98mm. )--STEVENSON, Mrs. M.I. (the author's mother). Autograph letter signed undoubtedly to the publisher and editor S.S. McClure, [Edinburgh?], 31 Dec. n.y. [ca. 1889], 4 pages, 8vo, on mourning stationery , giving news of RLS in the South Seas and of his writing--COLVIN, SIDNEY. Three autograph letters signed undoubtedly to S.S. McClure, London, 23 September 1892 to 18 May 1899, together 7 pages, 12mo-8vo , mainly regarding the periodical publication of "David Balfour." (6)
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph letter signed ("R.L.S.") TO HIS MOTHER, n.p., n.d., [Vailima, Apia, Samoa] docketed "4 December 1893" in an unidentified hand, 1 page, 8vo, a bit foxed, mounted by integral blank leaf, bound with calligraphic title-page in small folio-size red morocco, gilt-lettered, red morocco-backed cloth slipcase , a brief message: "My dear mother, To the devil with this mail, it has come upon us so that I have no time to do anything. When are you thinking of coming home? We begin to think it high time. April or May should be your latest. Your R.L.S.," Stevenson sale, Part III, Anderson Galleries, 17 February 1916, lot 239--Portrait photograph of Stevenson showing him facing camera, three-quarters length, right elbow leaning on chair top, cigarette in right hand, n.p., n.d., 5 7/8 x 3 7/8in. (148 x 98mm. )--STEVENSON, Mrs. M.I. (the author's mother). Autograph letter signed undoubtedly to the publisher and editor S.S. McClure, [Edinburgh?], 31 Dec. n.y. [ca. 1889], 4 pages, 8vo, on mourning stationery , giving news of RLS in the South Seas and of his writing--COLVIN, SIDNEY. Three autograph letters signed undoubtedly to S.S. McClure, London, 23 September 1892 to 18 May 1899, together 7 pages, 12mo-8vo , mainly regarding the periodical publication of "David Balfour." (6)
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