Gen. Ide was the Commissioner at Samoa some fifteen years ago while Robert Louis Stevenson resided there. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

In 1889 they settled on the Pacific island of Samoa, building their house on a 300-acre plot. Five years later, on Dec. 3, 1894, Stevenson died after a stroke, aged 44. Days before, Stevenson had ...

Bradford Torrey. 1 The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. By GRAHAM BALFOUR. Near York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1901. "Robert Louis Stevenson" by Bradford Torrey, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1902.

Robert Louis Stevenson was sickly, often coughing blood. It was thought he would die young and in fact he did, a century ago, at age 44. But not before hiking and canoeing and sailing over half ...