Latest Breaking News On - Bertha baker - Page 1 : comparemela.com

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Saranac Connection Robert Louis Stevenson at Baker’s with cigarette and skates — a diorama by Dwight Franklin. “Walking over the fields, with a stick in his hand and his skates thrown over his shoulders, he looked and seemed his happiest.” Bertha Baker, Saranac Lake Behind glass in Robert Louis Stevenson’s former study at Baker’s in Saranac Lake lies a pair of very old and worn ice skates, the very ones used by the author of “The Master of Ballantrae” on Moody Pond in the winter of 1887-88. Will Hickock Low, an American artist who, befriended by RLS in France in 1876, returned them to the Hunter’s Home in 1918, when he was a prominent member of the Stevenson Society of America. It was another member of the society who had provided the skates to the famous tenant of Andrew Baker in 1887. He was Charles Scribner, Stevenson’s first American publisher, and they were friends, too. From a letter by Scribner to Stephen Chalmer

New yorkUnited statesSwitzerland generalUnited kingdomSouth ayrshireLake flowerSaranac lakeMoody pondStephen chalmersAndrew bakerAlfredl donaldsonRaymonds spearsCharles scribnerRobert louis stevensonBertha bakerNew york times