Swanston Cottage

W. Brown MacDougall

Photogravure reproduction of watercolor

Source: The Homes and Early Haunts of Robert Louis Stevenson

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“In 1867 his father took a lease of the house known as Swanston Cottage, also on the northern slope of the Pentlands, two or three miles south-east of Colinton. For fourteen years the family were there, and R. L. S. has made those hills his own.” (Cruse 10).

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References

Cruse, Amy. Robert Louis Stevenson. George G. Harrap, 1905 Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of Connecticut Library. Web. 9 October 2014.

Armour, Margaret. The Homes and Early Haunts of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Riverside Press/W. H. White & Co., 1895. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library.

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