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“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.”