ALS, 1888 April 15 and 17 : In the Sickroom, Hartford, to Robert Louis Stevenson.

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ALS, 1888 April 15 and 17 : In the Sickroom, Hartford, to Robert Louis Stevenson.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14284440

Postpones a visit due to the illness of his wife, who "is now lying in a kind of wrecked condition washing gradually shoreward by fitful help of wind and tide. No ... she is already ashore and slowly undergoing repairs ... Thank you for writing Kidnapped & Treasure Island and for liking Huckleberry."

3 p. ; 20 x 13 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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