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[email protected] “In some ways I am sorry that he (Robert Louis Stevenson) went to the South Seas. He might have been here a cheery old boy of 80. He would have been just as much a boy at 80 as at 20. His uncle, George Balfour, came to see me soon after he had gone to the South Seas. … He said, ‘I misdoubt Louis’ going to the South Seas. It will undoubtedly do him good at first in that mild climate, but it will be like pouring new wine into an old bottle,’ and that, of course, is what happened. He died, not of the pulmonary complaint which he came here for, but of cerebral hemorrhage. His lungs healed, but the climate did not build up his strength as it might have done in these woods. His winter in the Adirondacks had enabled him to get out in all weathers.” ....
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Saranac Connection The Episcopal Church of St. Luke the Beloved Physician is seen soon after its completion in 1879. At far left is the Cooper residence, where Robert Louis Stevenson met Mrs. âLibbyâ Custer. (Provided photo) Mrs. Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson, or “Maggie,” was the daughter of a high-ranking official in the Scottish Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Dr. Lewis Balfour. Consequently, churchgoing was in Maggie’s blood, and in 1887, there was only one legitimate outlet in Saranac Lake to satisfy that urge St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, established 1879. And so it was that the mother of Robert Louis Stevenson joined that congregation for the duration of the layover in these mountains by the Stevenson expedition: a group of five travelers comprised of Maggie and her son with the newly famous initials RLS, his wife Mrs. Fanny Stevenson, her son Lloyd Osbourne and their maid Valentine Roch; and temporaril ....