The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: Volume One, 1854 - April 1874

Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, has long been recognized as one of the finest and most delightful of letter-writers. However a great many of his letters have never been published; and one of those that have, many were abridged or expurgated. This definitive eight-volume edition brings together nearly 2,800 letters, almost two-thirds of which have never been in print before. Its publication, in the centenary year of Stevenson's death, is a major literary event.