“When he (Robert Louis Stevenson) was not writing he was planning the come-true of some persistent old daydreams. We know their romantic, somewhat fantastic, trend. They were of yachts and aimless cruisings, of southern seas and sun-kissed shores where lotus-eaters dwell, of roving life among ...

Miss Adelaide Boodle was formerly a neighbor of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson when they were living in Bournemouth, England, their last home before they came to America and then to Saranac Lake. An amateur musician herself, just like RLS, the two had got along famously trying to make ...

It was October 3, 1887, close to the dinner hour, when Robert Louis Stevenson along with his mother, Margaret, and their portable servant, Valentine, arrived in Saranac Lake during a rainstorm. They had travelled all afternoon in a two-horse buggy from Loon Lake over a primitive Route 3 to ...

The significance of Robert Louis Stevenson’s oft-called “Adirondack sojourn” is often understated or not understood by incompetent biographers where it is barely a footnote. The better ones discuss his literary accomplishments of that winter of 1887-88, namely, the Scribner’s series of ...

The published letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by the Yale University Press (1995), edited by Bradford A. Booth and Earnest Mayhew, commit 146 pages from Vol. VI to the letters the author of “Treasure Island” wrote while he and his family passed the winter of 1887-88 as tenants of the ...

“When Robert Louis Stevenson came here, Saranac Lake village was but a backwoods hamlet. The first locomotive had not yet startled the buck and the bear. The community which is now the metropolis of the Adirondacks had in 1887 less than a handful of the thousands who have since followed the ...