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A literary scoop: the passionate correspondence between R.L. Stevenson and J.M. Barrie

7 November 2020

9:00 AM

7 November 2020

9:00 AM

A Friendship in Letters: Robert Louis Stevenson & J.M. Barrie Edited by Michael Shaw

Sandstone Press, pp.192, 11.99

This book has appeared with no fuss or fanfare and yet by any account it is something of a scoop. For here, published for the first time, is the correspondence between J.M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson, revealing one of the most intriguing literary bromances of the 19th century.

The existence of the letters is well documented.

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