Robert Louis Stevenson manuscript material

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{"value"=>"23761", "type"=>"local_mss"}

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{"value"=>"Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Robert Louis Stevenson manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1885-1893", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1885/1893"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· To Jane, Lady Shelley, daughter-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : 2 items : -- 1 autograph memorandum unsigned : [1 Sep 1885] : (S'ANA 0196) : 1 ¹/₄ pages (double sheet) : [from Exeter] : begins, \"How did you enjoy your drive? And where did you stop?\" Within an envelope marked in Lady Shelley's hand: \"Exeter / Sep.r 1st 1885 / Rob.t Louis Stevenson / When he was not / allowed to speak.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : [between Oct 1887 and Apr 1888] : (S'ANA 0195) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Saranac Lake, Adirondacks, New York, U. S. A. : with thick mourning border; begins, \"This is to let you hear some of our news: here we are in the extreme north of the state of New York ...\".</p><p>· To Harry Jay Moors, trader : 1 printed check accomplished in manuscript, signed : 9 Mar 1893 : (MISC 1533) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Vailima : for $11.10 to go to \"Hayhurst & Co.\"; the date stamped in ink, much faded; check printed by Turner and Henderson, Sydney, and numbered \"706\" in manuscript. Along with an unrelated facsimile of a letter from Stevenson to Ida Morgenthau Ehrich, undated, on graph paper; the original is at the Stevenson Society of America, Saranac Lake, New York.</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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1885

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1885

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1893

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1885

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1893

prefercite

{"value"=>"Robert Louis Stevenson manuscript material : 3 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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{"value"=>"Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer. &#xB7; To Jane, Lady Shelley, daughter-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : 2 items : -- 1 autograph memorandum unsigned : [1 Sep 1885] : (S'ANA 0196) : 1 &#xB9;/&#x2084; pages (double sheet) : [from Exeter] : begins, \"How did you enjoy your drive? And where did you stop?\" Within an envelope marked in Lady Shelley's hand: \"Exeter / Sep.r 1st 1885 / Rob.t Louis Stevenson / When he was not / allowed to speak.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : [between Oct 1887 and Apr 1888] : (S'ANA 0195) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Saranac Lake, Adirondacks, New York, U. S. A. : with thick mourning border; begins, \"This is to let you hear some of our news: here we are in the extreme north of the state of New York ...\".", "generated"=>true}

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