Item Detail
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1002
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
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A. L. S. (Paris) "October 1878."
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8vo
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1M pages, bound in full red levant. (Paris)
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London
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1878
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2:00 PM
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Vault MSS 355 folder 140
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A splendid letter to his mother about his first book. ". . . I have seen Hammerton (sic); he was very kind, all his family seemed pleased to see an Inland Voyager and the book seemed to he quite a household word with them. P. G. himself promised to help me in any bargains with publishers . . . he is also to read An Inland Voyage once again and send me his cuts and cuffs in private after having liberally administered his kisses coram publico. . . ." Speaks of his life in Paris, etc.