“Saranac Lake, as well as the Stevenson Society, is to be congratulated on acquiring after weeks of effort, perhaps one of the greatest Stevenson relics in existence and which, as soon as it is delivered here by the Boston Public Library, upon orders from Stevenson’s stepson, Lloyd ...

(The following is from The New York Times Magazine, Aug. 12, 1917) “One February day in 1888 a certain butcher at Saranac Lake, N.Y., sent a joint of mutton to the Baker cottage. At that time there was no railway to Saranac Lake, and perhaps that was the reason that the mutton seemed, to the ...

“I need scarcely say how much I am at one with you in your plans (the Stevenson Society) and can assure you of my hearty cooperation. As to relics of RLS, my sister, now Mrs. Salisbury Field (Belle), if she should have the inclination, could help you far better than I can, though I ...

A lease between Andrew J. Baker and the Stevenson Society, dated Oct. 2, 1916, to rent: “The two rooms in the south wing of the cottage belonging to the above landlord, said rooms to be furnished with the same furniture as was used by Robert Louis Stevenson and to be comfortably heated by ...

ROBERT HOBART DAVIS, Honorary President GUTZON BORGLUM, Honorary Vice-President C.M. PALMER, President HUGH M. KINGHORN, M.D., Vice-President M.M. FEUSTMANN, Treasurer STEPHEN CHALMERS, Secretary MRS. J.H. VINCENT, Resident Librarian (Bertha Baker) LORD GUTHRIE, Edinburgh, ...

“It is not claiming too much to say that it was directly the influence of The Penny Piper of Saranac that led to the creation of the Saranac Lake Memorial.” — “The Penny Piper of Saranac,” Stephen Chalmers Stephen Chalmers was not a modest man — plus, he was right. It isn’t ...