3rd. Was she there in the summer of 1884?

You see, I begin to fear that Mrs. Desborough may have deceived me
on some trifling points, for she is not a lady of peddling
exactitude. If this should prove to be so, I will give your
daughter a proper certificate, and her house property will return
to its original value.

Can man say more? - Yours very truly,

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

I saw the other day that the Eternal had plagiarised from LOST SIR
MASSINGBERD: good again, sir! I wish he would plagiarise the
death of Zero.



Letter: TO W. H. LOW



SKERRYVORE, BOURNEMOUTH, JAN. SOMETHINGOROTHER-TH, 1886.

MY DEAR LOW, - I send you two photographs: they are both done by
Sir Percy Shelley, the poet's son, which may interest. The sitting
down one is, I think, the best; but if they choose that, see that
the little reflected light on the nose does not give me a turn-up;
that would be tragic. Don't forget 'Baronet' to Sir Percy's name.