Some good things have come from Davos …
“It was here that Robert Louis Stevenson overcame his writer’s block and finished Treasure Island; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started skiing in the Alps; and Thomas Mann thought of the idea for The Magic Mountain”
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https://lithub.com/a-brief-literary-history-of-davos/
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Davos was also where Stevenson produced his MORAL EMBLEMS – a parody of Victorian didactic rhymes for children. His 12-year-old stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, printed the chapbooks on a toy printing press & hawked them around the sanatorium.
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Lloyd Osbourne’s “Davos Press” enjoyed sufficient commercial success to pay Stevenson (very small) royalties. You can find scans of the originals on the National Library of Scotland website
https://digital.nls.uk/rlstevenson/browse/archive/99384212
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And OF COURSE there are pirates …
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“It is with some diffidence that I sit down at an age so mature that I cannot bring myself to name it, to write a preface to works I printed & published at twelve…”
A 1921 edition of MORAL EMBLEMS, introduced by Lloyd Osbourne, is available free via @gutenberg_org
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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/772
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