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Staff shortages leave Stevenson a closed book for museum visitors

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20051121
Author:Louise Gray

AN ACCLAIMED collection of memorabilia dedicated to one of Scotland's greatest writers, Robert Louis Stevenson, has been kept closed to the public because of staff shortages.

While visitors to the Writers' Museum in Edinburgh can enjoy full access to the collections of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns on the upper floor, Europe's finest Stevenson's artefacts, including photographs, letters and a pair of the author's boots, is mostly kept under lock and key in the basement because there is no attendant to keep an eye on them.

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