Manuscripts and Typescripts written by Stevenson

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1. "And from before my window" and "The disordered (?) time of the streets." Rough holograph drafts of 2 poems
2. [Autolycus in service]. 4 portions of holograph draft: the first with characters P and Kate, the second and fourth with characters Ernst and Kate, the third with characters Carnicles and Artemidora
3. Great North road, The. Unfinished holograph (Bound)
4. "I hear, O city of my birth". Incomplete holograph
5. [In the South Seas: chapters LI, LII, XLIX, XIX-XXIV (ie Part 2, chapters 2-6; part 3, chapters 2, 4, 5 of the 1900 edition)]. Incomplete holograph. Including passages not in the published work
6. "Light foot and tight foot." Holograph poem
7. Looking-glass river and Armies in the fire. 2 holograph poems [may not be in Stevenson's hand]
8. Manse: a fragment, The. Holograph (Bound)
9. My treasures, from A Child's Garden of Verses. Photostat copy of a draft of his holograph and a couplet entitled "Happy thought". First two lines of My treasures, missing
10. Note relating to his book, Father Damien. Holograph.
11. Notes from "Gaberel's Eglise de Geneve." Holograph. 12 mounted pieces of paper. Title in Stevenson's hand on inserted envelope: Calvin. Geneva. Binder's title. John Calvin autograph ms. notes
12. Notes beginning: 1) The thing I really love about Pemara... 2) Damn rocking chairs!... 3) I really must Dumbletonise I think...
13. Praise and prayer. Holograph poem
14. Robin and Ben, or The pirate and the apothecary. Holograph poem
15. Summer night, A. To Charles Baxter. Holograph. On picture frame: Presented by Sir Arthur Lee and Lady Lee
16. To Doctor John Brown. Holograph poem
17. To Mrs. E. F. Strickland. Holograph poem. Removed from: Stevenson, R. L. New poems and variant readings. London, 1918
18. Travels with a donkey in the French Highlands. I. Le Monastier. Incomplete holograph draft. Apparently the first essay but differs from the published text of the first essay
19. "Wandering Willie," "The lea-rig," "When the kye came hame," and "I love nae a caddie." Holograph music score. 1 l. consisting of 16 lines