A Letter to Mr. Stevenson's Friends. "I have been waiting for you these many years. Give me your hand, and welcome"
[Apia, Samoa]: [Printed at the Office of the Samoan Times], 1894. One leaf, 36, [2]pp. First issue on thin wove paper with Palo Alto watermark. Bound in later blue cloth backed boards with paper spine label. Typed purchase note dated 1907 affixed to the front pastedown, edges sunned with some minor loss to the label else a very good example.
Ferguson, Bibliography of Australia 16262. Beinecke and McKay. A Stevenson Library Volume Two 1370. Item #72048
From the introduction: "Left with the task of writing to Mr. Stevenson's innumerable friends, to describe to each the story of his last hours amongst us, and the manner in which we laid him away in the grave he had chosen, the writer has shrunk from the work that devolved upon him...He has ventured, therefore, to print this single letter as it stands, and has sought the assistance of a few intimate friends in order that their recollections may be presented with his own."
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