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Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson— Volume 2
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Letter: To Frederick Locker-Lampson, [Skerryvore], Bournemouth, September 1886
DEAR LOCKER, - You take my verses too kindly, but you will admit, for such a bluebottle of a versifier to enter the house of Gertrude, where her necklace hangs, was not a little brave. Your kind invitation, I fear, must remain unaccented; and yet - if I am very well - perhaps next spring - (for I mean to be very well) - my wife might.... But all that is in the clouds with my better health. And now look here: you are a rich man and know many people, therefore perhaps some of the Governors of Christ’s Hospital. If you do, I know a most deserving case, in which I would (if I could) do anything. To approach you, in this way, is not decent; and you may therefore judge by my doing it, how near this matter lies to my heart. I enclose you a list of the Governors, which I beg you to return, whether or not you shall be able to do anything to help me.
The boy’s name is -; he and his mother are very poor. It may interest you in her cause if I tell you this: that when I was dangerously ill at Hyeres, this brave lady, who had then a sick husband of her own (since dead) and a house to keep and a family of four to cook for, all with her own hands, for they could afford no servant, yet took watch-about with my wife, and contributed not only to my comfort, but to my recovery in a degree that I am not able to limit. You can conceive how much I suffer from my impotence to help her, and indeed I have already shown myself a thankless friend. Let not my cry go up before you in vain! - Yours in hope,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
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Chicago:
Robert Louis Stevenson, "Letter: To Frederick Locker-Lampson, [Skerryvore], Bournemouth, September 1886," Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson— Volume 2, ed. Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915 and trans. Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906 in Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson—Volume 2 Original Sources, accessed July 3, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KR9D3PYYENHR6B3.
MLA:
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Letter: To Frederick Locker-Lampson, [Skerryvore], Bournemouth, September 1886." Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson— Volume 2, edited by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915, and translated by Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906, in Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson—Volume 2, Original Sources. 3 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KR9D3PYYENHR6B3.
Harvard:
Stevenson, RL, 'Letter: To Frederick Locker-Lampson, [Skerryvore], Bournemouth, September 1886' in Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson— Volume 2, ed. and trans. . cited in , Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson—Volume 2. Original Sources, retrieved 3 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KR9D3PYYENHR6B3.
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