Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Robert Louis Stevenson

Chesterton, G.K. 1874-1936.

Robert Louis Stevenson by G.K. Chesterton and Sir W.R. Nicoll - London Hodder and Stoughton 1902 - 40p. - Bookman booklets 2 .

Opening page annotations: [notes in pencil] 1902 Authors G.K. Chesterton & W. Robertson Nicoll 000999 net l202 £25 Profusely illustrated. Page 3 annotations: [notes in pencil] Miss Balfour died on 5th May 1907 aged 92. Buried in Colinton on 8th May 1907. [Photograph: No. 8 Howard place, notes in pencil] Feb 1906. Inside back cover annotation: [notes in pencil] 1/- Enclosures: Inside front cover: [folded newspaper cutting with pencil annotation] newspaper article title: Robert Louis Stevenson, patriot and soldier. Pencil annotation: Scotsman 11th Nov 1915. Inside first page: [folded newspaper cutting,with pencil annotation, glued to page] newspaper article titled: Sale of Stevenson Relics-The Samoa Collection. Pencil annotation: Scotsman 9th Dec 1914. Title page: [folded newspaper cutting,with pencil annotation, glued to page] newspaper article titled: Personal Reminiscences of R.L. Stevenson. Pencil annotation: Dec 1912. [b&w photographic postcard of house and countryside, glued to page] postcard titled: Birthplace of Robert Louis Stevenson, Swanston. List of illustrations page: [folded newspaper cutting,with pencil annotation, glued to page] newspaper article titled: The 'Stilly Hamlet Home' of Robert Louis Stevenson. Pencil annotation: From The Scotsman 1st May 1908 N.F.H. Page 3: [newspaper cutting glued to page] Obituary for Miss Jane Whyte Balfour, Robert Louis Stevenson's aunt. [tiny pink strip of newspaper cutting glued to page behind article] Text: Miss Jane Whyte Balfour, the aunt of Robert Louis Stevenson has just celebrated her ninetieth birthday. Page 7: [square of newspaper cutting glued to page next to photograph of Swanston Cottage, the country home of Stevenson's parents] Cutting text discusses the New parish church of Colinton. Page 9: [colour tinted b&w photographic postcard glued to page] postcard titled: Parish Church, Colinton. Page 15: [folded newspaper cutting with ink annotation, glued to page] newspaper article titled: Death of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson. Annotation: 20th Feb 1914.


Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894