The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson

Résumé du livre

"One day in the autumn of 1888, in the island of Tahiti, during an illness which he supposed might be his last, Stevenson put into the hands of his stepson, Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, a sealed paper with the request that it should be opened after his death. He recovered, as every one knows, and had strength enough to enjoy six years more of active life and work in the Pacific Islands. When the end came, and the paper was opened, it was found to contain, among other things, the expres-sion of his wish that I should be asked to prepare for publication Řa selection of his letters and a sketch of his life.ř The journal letters written to myself from his Samoan home, subsequently to the date of the request, offered the readiest mate-rial towards fulfilling promptly a part at least of the duty thus laid upon me; and a selection from these was accordingly published in the autumn following his death."