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Guide to the Isobel Field Papers,
1949-1952
Special Collections M0041
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Title: Isobel Field Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1949-1952
Collection number: Special Collections M0041
Creator: Isobel Field
Extent:
60 items
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
None.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Purchased from Hector Bolitho, 1962
[Identification of item] Isobel Field Papers, M0041, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Isobel Field was the step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Summary: Pen pal letters (May 1949-November 1955) from Mrs. Field to Hector Bolitho with comments by Mrs. Field about her
step-father Robert Louis Stevenson. Also includes letters from Mrs. Field's nurse, pictures of Mrs. Field and Robert Louis
Stevenson, clippings, Christmas cards, photocopy of a poem by Stevenson, and a manuscript, "A Pen-friendship, with Robert
Louis Stevenson's Step-daughter" by Hector Bolitho.