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  1. Despite a long-lasting friendship by letter, JM Barrie & Robert Louis Stevenson never met, & Barrie never got to go to Samoa:

    “Vailima was the one spot on earth I had any great craving to visit… I shall never go up the Road of Loving Hearts now, on ‘a wonderful clear night of stars,’ to meet the man coming toward me on a horse.”

    theguardian.com/books/2020/oct

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Samoa #RobertLouisStevenson #JMBarrie

  2. Robert Louis Stevenson’s #shortstory “The Bottle Imp” was first published (in English) #OTD, 8 Feb 1891, in the New York Herald. It was originally published in #Samoan translation as “O le Fagu Aitu” in the missionary magazine O le sulu Samoa (The Samoan Torch)

    A 👿 🧵 …

    #Scottish #literature #supernatural #RobertLouisStevenson

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  3. Robert Louis Stevenson’s #shortstory “The Bottle Imp” was first published (in English) #OTD, 8 Feb 1891, in the New York Herald. It was originally published in #Samoan translation as “O le Fagu Aitu” in the missionary magazine O le sulu Samoa (The Samoan Torch)

    A 👿🧵 …
    #Scottish #literature #supernatural #RobertLouisStevenson
    @bookstodon
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