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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Stevenson, Robert Lewis

Stevenson, Robert Lewis
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Introduction

Life:

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh,
Scotland, the only child of a brilliant engineer and lighthouse designer,
Thomas Stevenson. His mother Margaret (nee Balfour) was a gentle and pious
woman from whom the boy inherited his frail physique and delicate lungs. His
nurse "Cummie" (Allison Cunningham) showed great affection and patience for
the weak child and often read poetry and psalms to him. Stevenson showed an
early desire for writing: "I was always busy upon my private end, which was to
write. I ...

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