Stevenson (Robert Louis)

Stevenson (Robert Louis)

Autograph letter signed ('Robert Louis Stevenson') to Editor James Payn, reading "I am main sorry to hear you have been ill, but I shall try and call on you when in town as I hope to be shortly. I shall attend to the Independant [sic] which (from this plaintive appeal) I should judge to be ill named. But perhaps the title is meant financially; I wish [I was?] independant; I should -- But bollo, my fancy, bollo! | Trusting to hear better news of you and to see you soon", one page, fold marks with small closed tears, mainly good condition, remnants of tipping onto album page on verso, 4to, n.p., n.d.