BIB_ID
118222
Accession number
MA 419
Creator
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
Display Date
1888 Oct. 5-16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description
1 item (13 p.), bound ; 32.4 cm
Notes
398 lines.
While on a voyage through the South Seas, made in an attempt to regain his health, Stevenson fell ill in Tahiti in September of 1888. He convalesced in the village of Tautira (as the guest of the local chief, Ori a Ori), where he wrote two ballads based on Polynesian legends: "The feast of famine" and "The Song of Rahero." These ballads were collected, along with "Ticonderoga" in his Ballads (1890).--Cf. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
While on a voyage through the South Seas, made in an attempt to regain his health, Stevenson fell ill in Tahiti in September of 1888. He convalesced in the village of Tautira (as the guest of the local chief, Ori a Ori), where he wrote two ballads based on Polynesian legends: "The feast of famine" and "The Song of Rahero." These ballads were collected, along with "Ticonderoga" in his Ballads (1890).--Cf. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Summary
With some minor corrections and revisions throughout; signed "R.L.S." and dated at end.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (35.5 cm)
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