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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph letter signed to C. Howard Carrington, Skerrymore, Bournemouth, 9 June n.y. 1 page, 8vo, tiny fold tear, integral blank leaf.
ON HIS WRITING
"'The Great North Road' is still unfinished: it is scarce I should say beyond Highgate; but it will be finished some day, bar the big accident. It will however gratify your taste; the highwayman is not grasped; what you would have liked (and I, believe me!) would have been 'Jerry Abershaw'; but Jerry was not written at the fit moment; I have outgrown the taste, and his romantic horseshoes clatter fainter down the incline towards Lethe."
ON HIS WRITING
"'The Great North Road' is still unfinished: it is scarce I should say beyond Highgate; but it will be finished some day, bar the big accident. It will however gratify your taste; the highwayman is not grasped; what you would have liked (and I, believe me!) would have been 'Jerry Abershaw'; but Jerry was not written at the fit moment; I have outgrown the taste, and his romantic horseshoes clatter fainter down the incline towards Lethe."