Robert Louis Stevenson died #OTD, 3 December, in 1894, aged 44. He is buried on Mt Vaea, on the island of Upolu in Samoa 🇼🇸 🏴
📷 Thomas Andrew (1855–1939): Burial of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1894 / Le maliu o Tusitala i le tausaga 1894
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“I walked down surprised, when my mother called, motioned for me to come over. I went over there. She said, ‘Tell Lloyd to go for the doctor. Louis is dying.’”
—Belle Strong, RLS’s stepdaughter (interviewed in 1949), recalls the day Stevenson died
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https://robert-louis-stevenson.org/wp-content/uploads/belle-strong-interview-transcript.pdf
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REQUIEM
R.L. Stevenson
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie,
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
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“Requiem”, above – Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-composed epitaph – provides the title for Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be the Verse”. Daniel Bosch compares the two epitaphic fictions in the PARIS REVIEW
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Remembering RLS: Stevenson & Cultural Memory
Dr Craig Lamont looks at how Robert Louis Stevenson & his literary creations have been – & continue to be – remembered & memorialised, in Scotland & around the world
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2022/06/remembering-rls-stevenson-cultural-memory/
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Robert Louis Stevenson died on the veranda of his home, Vailima, Samoa, on 3 December 1894. On the centenary of his death the house became the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum. During his final years, Stevenson had become known in that part of the world as ‘Tusitala’ (Samoan: ‘Writer of Tales’), and the locals saw fit […]
“The sickness that once detached him from life had now made him greedy for experience… he accumulated several lifetimes worth of adventures”
—Trenton B. Olsen on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (& Dying), via the Literary Hub
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https://lithub.com/robert-louis-stevensons-art-of-living-and-dying/
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PS: There are several free ebooks of selected works by Robert Louis Stevenson (& by other Scottish writers too!) available to download from our website
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/
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