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Show FOUND WORKS OF STEVENSON Manuscript and Works of Popular Writer Unearthed in Samoa and Hawaii, by an Admirer. It is learned that a number of new and relatively important manuscripts of Robert Louis Stevenson have been discovered in Samoa and in Honolulu by an ardent admirer of the great novelist, who has been for some time in both Hawaii and Samoa seeking such writings of the famous Scotsman as might possibly be found in the possession pos-session of some of the many friends of Stevenson during his years in the Pacific. The result of this research has been the finding of an essay, said to be highly poetical in character, written by the novelist after witnessing a volcano vol-cano in action, supposedly either the famed crater of Savaii or the pit of Kilauea in Hawaii; a piece of fiction dealing with South Sea life, and a number of smaller verse compositions. Still another manuscript, a blank verse relation of a well-known legend of Maui, of considerable length, but unfinished, has also come to light, and the enthusiastic admirer of Stevenson feels highly rewarded for his month of effort. |