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THE MERRY MEN
ОглавлениеMy dear Lady Taylor,
To your name, if I wrote on brass, I could add nothing; it has been already written higher than I could dream to reach, by a strong and a dear hand; and if I now dedicate to you these tales, 1 it is not as the writer who brings you his work, but as the friend who would remind you of his affection.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Skerryvore, Bournemouth.
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i. e. the six stories which were in 1887 published in a volume entitled The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables: of this volume “The Merry Men” and “Olalla” formed part.