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R.L.S. in Perthshire. (writer Robert Louis Stevenson)
From: Contemporary Review
Date: 19941101
Author:MacLeod, Dawn
Noted essayist and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson is the pride of Edinburgh, Scotland, having been born in the Scottish capital on Nov. 13, 1850 at 8 Howard Place. However, he spent his growing-up years at 17 Heriot Row. In 1881, Stevenson and his wife briefly visited Perthshire, a visit from which some of his best stories came. Stevenson travelled extensively to look for favorable climate for the throat and lung disease that plagued him almost all his life.
THAT endearing and enduring essayist and story-teller, Robert Louis Stevenson, or 'R.L.S.' or 'Tusitala' -- as he was variously ...
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