Author: Stevenson, Mrs M. I. (Ed. and Arranged by Marie Clothilde Balfour):
Title: Letters From Samoa 1891 - 1895.
Description: London, Methuen, 1906 1st Ed. hard cover red cloth bds, spine a litle aged, paper label to spine rubbed at top and to surface, prev. owners label to front pastedown, tissue protected frontis. of author, foxing to pge edge blocks and in places through text and to endpapers, 12 illustrations in b/w, pp340 + catalogue of books to rear, some pencil writing on endpaper and ink notes on relevant dates of deaths to final endpaper verso, includes newspaper picture of the tomb of the novelist R L Stevenson showing the tablet erected to the memory of Mrs Stevenson, whose ashes were brought from America and placed in her husband's grave at Samoa.

Keywords: Samoa letters Vailima Mataafa Papaeia R L Stevenson novelist mother SS Lusitania Victorian history


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