Letters from Samoa 1891-1895 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Letters From Samoa 1891-1895Nor is it by chance that in these letters R. L. S. Appears only as the beloved son. With instinctive tact his mother avoided that public life Which she felt was not wholly hers to deal with, and to which others had a directer claim than she. To those others she was content to leave the novelist and writer, for all her pride and joy in his success, and to keep for herself, and for those who would read her letters, the memory of the little son, the delicate, greatly beloved child of so many anxious bygone years. That, at least, was her own, and remained with her to the end, for if there were a 'dear resting place' to be left behind on Vaea Mountain, there was no less dear a memory still waiting to meet her in the grey and wind-swept Edinburgh streets, which were her home, and his.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.