Isobel Field papers, 1949-1952.

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Isobel Field papers, 1949-1952.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510426

Pen pal letters (May 1949-November 1955) from Mrs. Field to Hector Bolitho with comments by Mrs. Field about her step-father Robert Louis Stevenson. Also includes letters from Mrs. Field's nurse, pictures of Mrs. Field and Robert Louis Stevenson, clippings, Christmas cards, photocopy of a poem by Stevenson, and a manuscript, "A Pen-friendship, with Robert Louis Stevenson's Step-daughter" by Hector Bolitho.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6742230

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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