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Find a Grave Memorial ID: 3770. Source citation. Scottish Author and Poet. He received world acclaim for his novels Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), Kidnapped (1886), and his children's poem collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).
23 paź 2013 · Stevenson was buried just below the 1560-foot summit of Mount Vaea in a tomb overlooking Vailima and the ocean. His epitaph came from his poem “Requiem.”
Mount Vaea is best known as the burial place of the Scottish writer and poet Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived the last four years of his life in Samoa before his death on 3 December 1894. Stevenson, who had lived on the east side of Mount Vaea, had chosen the mountain top as his final resting place. The day following his death, his coffin was ...
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island , Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses .
From the late 1880s, Stevenson stayed in the South Pacific with his family on his own estate in Vailima in Samoa. He died here on the 3rd December 1894 of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 44, leaving what many consider his best work, Weir of Hermiston (1896) unfinished.
By: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951; McKnight, P (Mrs), active 1960. Reference: PAColl-0691. Description: Photographs of: the lying in state of Tamesese III; Tamesese III with his council outside the Office of the Mau; Robert Louis Stevenson and a Samoan man; and Stevenson's gravestone in Samoa.
Grave of Robert Louis Stevenson - August 2016.jpg 4,608 × 3,456; 3.47 MB. RLS Memorial by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edinburgh.JPG 3,216 × 4,288; 3.03 MB. Robert Louis Stevenson childhood home, Heriot Row.jpg 640 × 480; 96 KB. Robert Louis Stevenson House 530 Houston St. Monterey CA French Hotel.JPG 4,000 × 3,000; 4.37 MB.
