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Volume Three covers the period from August 1879 to September 1882 and comprises some 350 letters, many of them previously unpublished. It tells the full story of Stevenson's reckless journey to California as 'An Amateur Emigrant', in the face of strong opposition from his family and friends, on his quest to marry an American woman, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne who had at that time still to obtain a divorce from a previous marriage. This journey...

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Robert Louis Stevenson, long recognized as a master storyteller and essayist, was also a prolific letter writer. His letters, some 2800 pieces of correspondence, have been published in eight volumes. Volume VII covers the period from September 1890 to January 1893.

Robert Louis Stevenson's exile in Samoa caught the imagination of his contemporaries a century ago and has fascinated his admirers ever since. The penultimate volume of this eight-book edition of his collected correspondence covers the period from September 1890, when Stevenson set up home in Samoa, to December 1892. In splendid, lively letters Stevenson describes the early pioneering days during the establishment of the Vailima plantation and...

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