STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph manuscript headed "Eng. Transl," [n.p., n.d.], 1 1/2 pages, folio, on the first and last pages of a bifolium, remnants of mounting on hinge, in ink with a few revisions, on blue paper bearing the circular blind-stamp of the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, consisting of about 26 lines (of assorted stanzas) of verse translation (perhaps from Old French) with a 5-line commentary on a translation point, with a few pencilled notes by Stevenson on lower half of last page; Autograph manuscript of two original (possibly unpublished) Stevenson poems, [n.p., n.d.], 2 pages, 8vo, written in pencil with a few revisions on both sides of a sheet, partially browned, a blank corner chipped. One poem, of 24 lines, begins: "Did you ever here [sic] of the verdegree -- The happy, the innocent verdegree -- The bounding, mountain verdegree? Who will arise and hunt with me The bounding mountain verdegree..." The other poem, of about 18 lines, begins: "At morn when from his bed he rose He pulled his stockings o'er his toes, Over his socks he pulled his boots, And donned his flannel undersuits. The poor might shiver in alley and lane, He would be dressed like Charlemain..."Provenance (for the second manuscript): Autograph Letters, Original Manuscripts...from the Library of ...Stevenson, Part II, Anderson Galleries, 26 January 1915, lot 350. (2)

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph manuscript headed "Eng. Transl," [n.p., n.d.], 1 1/2 pages, folio, on the first and last pages of a bifolium, remnants of mounting on hinge, in ink with a few revisions, on blue paper bearing the circular blind-stamp of the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, consisting of about 26 lines (of assorted stanzas) of verse translation (perhaps from Old French) with a 5-line commentary on a translation point, with a few pencilled notes by Stevenson on lower half of last page; Autograph manuscript of two original (possibly unpublished) Stevenson poems, [n.p., n.d.], 2 pages, 8vo, written in pencil with a few revisions on both sides of a sheet, partially browned, a blank corner chipped. One poem, of 24 lines, begins: "Did you ever here [sic] of the verdegree -- The happy, the innocent verdegree -- The bounding, mountain verdegree? Who will arise and hunt with me The bounding mountain verdegree..." The other poem, of about 18 lines, begins: "At morn when from his bed he rose He pulled his stockings o'er his toes, Over his socks he pulled his boots, And donned his flannel undersuits. The poor might shiver in alley and lane, He would be dressed like Charlemain..." Provenance (for the second manuscript): Autograph Letters, Original Manuscripts...from the Library of ...Stevenson, Part II, Anderson Galleries, 26 January 1915, lot 350. (2)

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph manuscript headed "Eng. Transl," [n.p., n.d.], 1 1/2 pages, folio, on the first and last pages of a bifolium, remnants of mounting on hinge, in ink with a few revisions, on blue paper bearing the circular blind-stamp of the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, consisting of about 26 lines (of assorted stanzas) of verse translation (perhaps from Old French) with a 5-line commentary on a translation point, with a few pencilled notes by Stevenson on lower half of last page; Autograph manuscript of two original (possibly unpublished) Stevenson poems, [n.p., n.d.], 2 pages, 8vo, written in pencil with a few revisions on both sides of a sheet, partially browned, a blank corner chipped. One poem, of 24 lines, begins: "Did you ever here [sic] of the verdegree -- The happy, the innocent verdegree -- The bounding, mountain verdegree? Who will arise and hunt with me The bounding mountain verdegree..." The other poem, of about 18 lines, begins: "At morn when from his bed he rose He pulled his stockings o'er his toes, Over his socks he pulled his boots, And donned his flannel undersuits. The poor might shiver in alley and lane, He would be dressed like Charlemain..."

Provenance (for the second manuscript): Autograph Letters, Original Manuscripts...from the Library of ...Stevenson, Part II, Anderson Galleries, 26 January 1915, lot 350. (2)