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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 130, 6 June 1929, Page 14

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PRESERYINa SWANSTOS COTTAGE ..

A movement;, has been initiated to have Swanston. • Gottage—Kobert Louis Stevenson's home for- many yearsmade available as-a place of resort for lovers of the. author. This decision was taken at the recent, meeting of the executive committee of the Robert Louis Stevenson aiFellowah'rp in Edin.burghi writes :th& Edinburgh eorrespon- . dent of the '■■'' Christian Science Moni,tor. ; Stevenson's father was a tenant of Swanston Cottage for" ten years, and .there B.L.S. wrote a. number of his works, -while the - cottage of "the Rqarin'v.-Shepherd-' is .still.to be seen. The lat© Lord Guthrie J: who j was a college friend of Stevenson, was tenant of Swanston Cottage until about eight years ago, and he loved and preserved the place as only a friend could. The Corporation of Edinburgh then took it over,,aiid it is at present let to a private tenant. It is agreed that the fellowship shall approach the Corporation to see if" a lease can be granted them to acquire the pjaco as a Stevenson Memorial House.

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