Title

Robert Louis Stevenson collection of papers, [1873]-[1944] bulk (1881-1917).

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

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Additional Authors

• Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937.
• Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931.
• Bowers, Fredson.
• Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927.
• Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.
• Guthrie, Charles John Guthrie, Lord, 1849-1920.
• Hamilton, Clayton Meeker, 1881-1946.
• Meredith, George, 1828-1909.
• Moore, George, 1852-1933.
• Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957.
• Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
• Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926.
• Steuart, John A. (John Alexander), 1861-1932.
• Stevenson, M. I. (Margaret Isabella), 1829-1897.
• A. P. Watt and Son.
• American Play Company. fmo

Description

201 items.

Subjects

• Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
• Correspondence
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 > Portraits
• Notebooks

Genre/Form

• Correspondence.
• Notebooks.

Biography (note)

• Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

• This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. Also present are materials from Thomas Cabel, Arthur Lee, Sidney Moody, and from the files of the American Play Co.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Stevenson

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.

Title

Robert Louis Stevenson collection of papers, [1873]-[1944] bulk (1881-1917).

Summary

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, undated notebooks, financial and legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include a number of holograph poems and incomplete or unfinished holographs of stories and novels. Also present are manuscripts and emended typescripts by Fredson Bowers, Clayton Meeker Hamilton, John Steuart, and Vladimir Nabokov. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1874 to 1894 from the author to J. M. Barrie, Edmund Gosse, Clement King Shorter, Stevenson's mother Margaret Balfour Stevenson, and others. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from [1873] to 1944, between various correspondents including W. K. Bixby, Sidney Colvin, Edmund Gosse, Charles John Guthrie, Clayton Meeker Hamilton, George Moore, Christopher D. Morley, and others. There are letters to Stevenson from George Meredith and from A. P. Watt & Son., dating from 1878 to 1894.

Biography

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet.

Indexes

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Local Note

Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937.

Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931.

Bowers, Fredson.

Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927.

Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.

Guthrie, Charles John Guthrie, Lord, 1849-1920.

Hamilton, Clayton Meeker, 1881-1946.

Meredith, George, 1828-1909.

Moore, George, 1852-1933.

Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926.

Steuart, John A. (John Alexander), 1861-1932.

Stevenson, M. I. (Margaret Isabella), 1829-1897.

Cabel, Thomas. Former owner

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner

Lee, Arthur Hamilton Lee, viscount, 1868-1947. Former owner

Moody, Sidney. Former owner

Young, Owen D., 1874- Former owner

A. P. Watt and Son.

American Play Company. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Stevenson