Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 |
| Title: | Robert Louis Stevenson Collection |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1878-1880 |
| Quantity: | 0.5 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Three items of correspondence, including a letter to Edmund Gosse, a letter to his mother, and another to his parents; and five autographed manuscript essays and poems. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
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Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Robert Louis Stevenson Collection,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Finding Aid Information
Created by: -
Date: -
Revision history: 31 Aug 2005 - EAD file created (MRR);
18 Dec 2006 - updated to include memorabilia (MRR)
Inventory
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1878, 12 Nov Letter - "My dear mother" | ||||||||||
| Provenance: Edith Barbara Tranter (former owner); Sol Feinstone (donor) | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1880, 15 Dec Letter - "My dear Weg [i.e. Edmund William Gosse]" | ||||||||||
| Provenance: Edith Barbara Tranter (former owner); Sol Feinstone (donor) | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1880, 25 Dec Letter -"My dear people [i.e. parents]" | ||||||||||
| Provenance: Edith Barbara Tranter (former owner); Sol Feinstone (donor) | |||||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Books and reading. / No. 2. How books have to be written" | ||||||||||
| Autograph manuscript signed. 5 leaves. Portrait. Bound in full green morocco. | |||||||||||
| Provenance: Albert B. Ashforth, Jr. (former owner); Sol Feinstone (donor) | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Did Chuchu sweat?" | ||||||||||
| Autograph manuscript signed. 2 leaves | |||||||||||
| Provenance: Sol Feinstone (donor) | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | "My first book / Treasure Island" | ||||||||||
| Autograph manuscript signed. 8 leaves. Text published in: Syracuse University Library Associates Courier XXI:2:77-88 (Fall 1986) | |||||||||||
| Provenance: W.T.H. Howe (former owner); Edith Barbara Tranter (former owner); Sol Feinstone (donor) | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | "St. Ives" | ||||||||||
| Autograph manuscript. 1 leaf. Bound in full black morocco. | |||||||||||
| Provenance: George Arents (donor) | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | "The tropics vanish, and meseems that I"; "To my old comrades"; "The House of Tembinoka" | ||||||||||
| Autograph manuscript. [10] pages. Bound in full red morocco with mss. title leaf, portrait of Stevenson, typescript and published texts of the poems with illustrations. | |||||||||||
| Provenance: Sol Feinstone (donor) | |||||||||||
| Memorabilia | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Lock of hair | ||||||||||