STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph manuscript of the poem "I read, dear friend, in your face Your life's tale told with perfect grace...," a fair copy, n.d. [published in 1887]. 1 page, 4to, 14 lines in 3 stanzas, written on the recto of one leaf of lined paper, neatly inlaid to a larger sheet, minor marginal soiling, bound with an etched portrait by S. Hollyer and a printed copy of the poem in green morocco gilt, g.e., joints and corners rubbed. The poem originally consisted of 33 lines in 7 stanzas and was written for Francis Jane Sitwell ("Claire") in November 1873. "The first thirteen lines of the poem were first published in Underwoods, 1887... the remaining nineteen lines were first published in Three Short Poems, London, 1898," (Beinecke Catalogue, pp. 1831 and 2013). Bookplate of William Warren Carman.

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph manuscript of the poem "I read, dear friend, in your face Your life's tale told with perfect grace...," a fair copy, n.d. [published in 1887]. 1 page, 4to, 14 lines in 3 stanzas, written on the recto of one leaf of lined paper, neatly inlaid to a larger sheet, minor marginal soiling, bound with an etched portrait by S. Hollyer and a printed copy of the poem in green morocco gilt, g.e., joints and corners rubbed. The poem originally consisted of 33 lines in 7 stanzas and was written for Francis Jane Sitwell ("Claire") in November 1873. "The first thirteen lines of the poem were first published in Underwoods, 1887... the remaining nineteen lines were first published in Three Short Poems, London, 1898," (Beinecke Catalogue, pp. 1831 and 2013). Bookplate of William Warren Carman.