Robert Louis Stevenson in his favorite blue velvet jacket, which is now in the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Monterey, along with his traveling desk, which is also in the photo.
Photo courtesy of the California Historical Society and Historic Bay Area Visionaries.
Robert Louis Stevenson made an important visit to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1879. He was not yet the famous writer he would become and he was not on a literary errand. He was besotted with a California woman and determined to marry her.
Travel across the Atlantic from Scotland to America was difficult, as was the trip by train across America. Also: Stevenson was ill with the lung disease that would eventually take his life. None of this stopped him. That is the story in Part One of my latest column in our local weekly. Click for the full story! ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IN CALIFORNIA
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