In October, 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson took a cruise to Hawaii because he felt like it and he could. This diversion would turn out to be Tusitala’s last contact with the world beyond his Samoan domain. For a companion and nurse, if necessary, he brought with him Taalolo, his Samoan chief ...

“I can see but one way out—to follow the demands of the Samoan people that the Berlin Act be rescinded, while the three Powers withdraw absolutely, and the natives be left alone, and allowed to govern the islands as they choose …There would be internal dissensions covering a certain ...

Still unsurpassed as the “world’s finest collection of Stevenson lore,” the memorabilia in Saranac Lake pertaining to the invalid author from Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson, is comprehensive in the way it represents all phases of his life and career, short though it was, from his white ...

When the Stevenson Society of America opened their two-room museum to the public in November 1916, this clapboard farmhouse was henceforth to be called the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Cottage; however, Andrew Baker was still the owner of the house and he was still living there with his ...

June 24, 1889, was the day the trading schooner Equator, 62 tons, Captain Reid, left the island nation of Hawaii behind her, as she sailed into the sunset, bound for the distant Gilbert Islands and points beyond. She carried five passengers: Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife, Fanny, her son, ...

On Jan. 24, 1889, the schooner-yacht Casco, Capt. Otis, dropped anchor in Honolulu harbor, Hawaii, at 3 p.m. Aboard were Robert Louis Stevenson and his family. They were long overdue in port and had been presumed lost at sea. Their voyage north from Tahiti “was most disastrous,” said RLS, ...