Father Damien : an open letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu / from Robert Louis Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.

Contributor:

Hyde, Charles McEwen, 1832-1899.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Damien, Father, Saint, 1840-1889.

Damien.

Penn Provenance:

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 (bookplate)

Strong, Isobel (autograph)

Crawford, William Roy (bookplate)

Physical Description:

32 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Sydney [Australia] : [publisher not identified], 1890.

Notes:

At head of title: With Mr. R. L. Stevenson's compliments (letterpress).

First privately printed edition.

Cover title.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has, on verso of cover, a bookplate reading From the library of Robert Louis Stevenson at Vailima, signed by Isobel Strong.

Culture Class Collection copy has a permit from the Board of Health of Honolulu giving Stevenson permission to visit the Leper Colony at Molokai, dated May 20, 1889 on the verso of the cover.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of William Roy Crawford.

Culture Class Collection copy has [1] leaf of paper with a description and history of this item laid in.

Culture Class Collection in a slip case

Cited in:

Prideaux, p. 74, no. 31

Beinecke, 506

OCLC:

13594327