Stevenson's stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, described Henley as "... a great, glowing, massive-shouldered fellow with a big red beard and a crutch ; jovial, astoundingly clever, and with a laugh that rolled like music ; he had an unimaginable fire and vitality ; he swept one off one's feet ".

Suwarrow was described by Fanny Vandegrift as " the most romantic island in the world ", but it was not the model for her husband Robert Louis Stevenson's famous book, Treasure Island.

In 1977, the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease devoted most of one issue to Stevenson's work in which psychiatrist Harold Lief described Stevenson as " a methodical, careful, even cautious, investigator, whose personality is on the obsessive side ... Either he is making a colossal mistake, or he will be known.

In this version, Flint is described as having started his piratical career as the junior partner of Andrew Murray, an idealistic Jacobite turned pirate, who is not referenced in Stevenson's original book. Flint gradually becomes the dominant partner.

This incident is described in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Catriona where he appears as Lord Prestongrange.

According to Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend William Henley, a writer and editor.

According to Robert Louis Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend Henley.

Henley, who had a wooden leg, was Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver.

In 1978, Heflin was elected to the United States Senate to succeed fellow Democrat John Sparkman, who had been Adlai E. Stevenson's running-mate in 1952, when slated against Richard M. Nixon on the Republican ticket.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is known for its portrayal of a split personality and has become synonymous with multiple personalities in both lay and scientific literature

For example, Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes uses mottos at the start of each section.

Haggard wrote the novel as a result of a five-shilling wager with his brother, namely whether he could write a novel half as good as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island ( 1883 ).

( Stevenson's role in the race is perhaps more distinguished by his being the first Vice President to win nomination for that office with a different running mate, after having completed his first term.

Author James Fenimore Cooper's earlier 1849 novel The Sea Lions, is a tale that begins with the death of a sailor who has left behind " two old, dirty and ragged charts " which lead to a seal-hunting paradise in the Antarctic as well as a location in the West Indies where pirates have buried treasure, a plot similar to Stevenson's tale.

Four years later, in 1956, he remained publicly neutral, feeling that openly opposing Stevenson's drive for the nomination and supporting Kefauver would damage his standing with his state party.

On November 12, Bragg placed Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson in overall command for the defense of the mountain, with Stevenson's own division positioned on the summit.

Bruce Greyson has taken over as the Director while Jim B. Tucker, a child psychiatrist, is continuing Stevenson's reincarnation research with children, focusing on North American cases and exploring possible mechanisms for personality transfer.

Stevenson's tongue-in-cheek idea about sending a probe into the earth includes the use of nuclear weapons to crack the Earth's crust, simultaneously melting and filling the crack with molten iron containing a probe.

One of Sevareid's biggest scoops from this time period was his 1965 exclusive interview with Adlai Stevenson, shortly before Stevenson's death.

* In the Steinbeck novel The Pastures of Heaven, one of the characters regards Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes as one of the single greatest works of English literature and eventually names his infant son Robert Louis.

Stevenson's screen credits include the Disney movie The Cat from Outer Space as a friend of Dr. Frank Wilson ( played by Ken Berry ) along with his M * A * S * H replacement Harry Morgan.

In the story " Junius Maltby ", one of the characters regards Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes as one of the greatest works of English literature and eventually names his infant son Robert Louis.

From Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ( 1879 ): "... my railway-rug, which, being also in the form of a bag, made me a double castle for cold nights.

* Robert Louis Stevenson's connection with the construction of Dubh Artach and its shore station played a significant part in his 1886 novel Kidnapped during which the main character, David Balfour, experiences the dangers of the Torran Rocks and is marooned on Erraid.

The literature of the late Victorian era, including Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes stories and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, has provided rich inspiration for story-makers who have fused these fictional worlds with the Ripper.

On the early morning of August 20, 2007, a 31-year-old man, Curtis Ruff, was shot and injured at Stevenson's home, following an argument with women that were invited from Destiny's Club in Orlando.

As a result Stevenson's minutes dipped slightly with the development of second year shooting guard Nick Young and former Maryland standout Juan Dixon.

The movie was based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and directed by Victor Fleming, director of Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz two years earlier.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ( 1879 ), about his travels in Cévennes ( France ), is among the first popular books to present hiking and camping as recreational activities, and tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags.

This transformation is brought about, not by experimentation with chemicals as in Stevenson's original, but through the supernatural agency of a bust of Janus ( the Roman god of the doorway ), which Warren / O ' Connor purchases in the opening sequence as a gift for his sweetheart, Jane Lanyon ( Margarete Schlegel ).

Like many of Stevenson's characters, there is more than a modicum of duality in the character ; ostensibly Silver is a hardworking and likeable seaman, and it is only as the plot unfolds that his villainous nature is gradually revealed.

He died of an epidemic fever on the island of St. Christopher when Stevenson was an infant ; at much the same time, Stevenson's uncle died of the same disease, leaving Alan's widow, Jane Lillie, in straitened financial circumstances.

However Thomason's reanalysis concluded that Jensen could not convincingly be claimed to speak Swedish ; in the interview Stevenson studied in depth, though Jensen had a total vocabulary of about 100 words, only about 60 were used before interlocutors used them, and, as one of Stevenson's consultants pointed out, this reduced to 31 after eliminating cognates.

" He particularly praised the band's musical abilities and Stevenson's production skills, saying that " Musically, the band hasn't changed drastically since 1982's Milo Goes to College ; they're still focused on somewhat unorthodox melodies, anchored by an incredibly tight rhythm section and some guitar pyrotechnics.

Astrid Lindgren expanded Stevenson's couplet differently in the script for the 1969 Pippi Longstocking TV series ; the two resulting verses were sung to a West Indian sea shanty.

He was also a significant editor of Stevenson's, preparing the Edinburgh edition of his works ( 1894 – 97 ); the Vailima Letters ( 1899 ), which Stevenson chiefly addressed to him ; and the collected Letters ( 2 volumes, London, 1900 ).

Robert Louis Stevenson's work included the urban Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), and played a major part in developing the historical adventure in books like Kidnapped and Treasure Island.

He explored the popular theme of dual personalities, much like Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in 1920's The Janus Head starring Veidt and Bela Lugosi.

Robert Louis Stevenson's work included the urban Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), and played a major part in developing the historical adventure in books like Kidnapped and Treasure Island.

* In Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Long John Silver refers to the main character as having ' slept like a supercargo.

* In Robert Louis Stevenson's book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll explains that his experience as Mr. Hyde was " like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgment.

The genre was revived and modernised toward the end of the century with works like Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ) and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).