Manuscript notebook containing historical notes and drafts of verses

Item author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Item date: 1881
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2000
Item date acquired: 1993
Item institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Contains notes on Jean Cavalier, leader of the Protestant Camisards of the Cvennes in their revolt against Louis XIV after the revocatin of the Edict of Nantes. RLS had intended to write a novel on this subject but the ideas in this notebook were never fully developed. Also contains an early draft of The Spaewife, published in Underwoods Magazine in 1887