STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph manuscript of the poem "In the States," alternately titled "In America" ("With half a heart I wander here As from an age gone by..."), with two deletions, n.p., n.d. [published 1887]. 1 page, folio, 12 lines in 3 stanzas, written on lined paper, slightly soiled, tipped to a recessed mat, bound with an elaborate calligraphic title-page in blue and red ink and a calligraphic transcript in brown morocco gilt- and blind-tooled, g.e., by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with fleece-lined cloth dust-jacket and slip-case. "In the States" was first published in Underwoods, London, 1887, p.[62]; another manuscript probably written in San Francisco in January 1880 is in the Bienecke Library (Bienecke Catalogue, 6447).

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph manuscript of the poem "In the States," alternately titled "In America" ("With half a heart I wander here As from an age gone by..."), with two deletions, n.p., n.d. [published 1887]. 1 page, folio, 12 lines in 3 stanzas, written on lined paper, slightly soiled, tipped to a recessed mat, bound with an elaborate calligraphic title-page in blue and red ink and a calligraphic transcript in brown morocco gilt- and blind-tooled, g.e., by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with fleece-lined cloth dust-jacket and slip-case. "In the States" was first published in Underwoods, London, 1887, p.[62]; another manuscript probably written in San Francisco in January 1880 is in the Bienecke Library (Bienecke Catalogue, 6447).