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ORIGINALS INDICATED "MY FRIENDS GOME OUT ,THIRQ BEST." 'p;y "T^eiri < &ntt^Pj.3jsß,VVEoOci'j^ (Ret Julj 1 6.5 p.m T London. .lime :jo. A large i.nimber uf unpublished Stevenson kiu-rs, the property qi> ihe i.te 'Stf. Lioyd Osborne, » il! i)i! k'lling •• at Stit'lieby s (in July .ijjiii In writing to ;■ his father tit :s§sß r Stevenson suid: ';lt ; h a f-ti«orlil.iniltetlbut there is. insiiiiWt. a God for iiiosi; who caro to "■ look i'oi' liiin." iHc-ilosoribnit'S'the '"to •: Dr. Chalmers, Hiiro 1m ever mof.''' .■'."■ '"-fi ■■■(¥■; Hp slates that AV. 11. Henley (whom ho met Jit., tlic Edinburgh Hospital,' and .V who lost ii : lec) wall the. original 'of Jolin Silver,' file. onorlejiged 'buccanccr... in 'Treasure Island" j Chailes 13a A lor (a. vriie'r to the ."Signet," 'in Edit!- : burgh, and who managed. Stoybnsonls. business affairs) was- the original of Mieliadl i r iiisbm:y,. iii the story of. "The . ; Wrong Box" (ivritum. in collaboration •with his stepson,..Lio.vd Osborne); that Boh Stevenson (Ins. cousin) suggested a. character ill "Prilled Otto," and .that • Willie -Trafitiar was : the.' original of David Balfour, i ho is tV hero in the \-iiqvcl 'Kidnapped,'' 1 and is also a lead- [ itig.character- iii the stc.ry. ; '.'Coirionn," \&t£s Stevenson remarks.: "My. friends come, out rutlier third best in rajy'litcra* , tnrc."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2191, 2 July 1914, Page 7
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210STEVENSON LETTERS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2191, 2 July 1914, Page 7
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