Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 (author and Traveller)

Scope and Contents Papers relating to the founding and operations of the Robert Louis Stevenson Club, Edinburgh. Arranged into 3 categories: Papers relating to the founding of the RLS Club in Edinburgh. Includes Club rules, member records minutes, invitations to meetings, and correspondence regarding the founding of the club. Correspondence with RLS Clubs in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and London. ...

Scope and Contents The papers include: valedictory address by Robert Louis Stevenson to the Speculative Society, 1873; drawing of David Masson, drawn by William Hole; illustrations of the Men's Union building, and the Old Quad; notes on lectures of Henry Calderwood taken by Dickson; notes on Professor Masson's lectures, 1880; two letters to Dickson from John Ruskin, Honorary President of the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh, 1883; two letters and copy letters to Dickson from Robert Browning,...