Typed letter signed : New York, to Frederick B. Adams, 1951 Feb. 5.

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Typed letter signed : New York, to Frederick B. Adams, 1951 Feb. 5.

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Presenting the Morgan Library with a leaf (p. 52) missing from the final draft of the autograph manuscript of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (MA 628); remarking "to be able to fill in a lacuna in a Pierpont Morgan Library manuscript is something one may boast about afterward provided, of course, that he actually eliminates the lacuna." Mentioning that he is presenting Yale University Library with an earlier draft of the work, along with his other Stevensoniana.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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