Robert Louis Stevenson The Samoans insisted on surrounding his body with a watch-guard during the night and on bearing him on their shoulders to nearby Mount Vaea, where they buried him on a spot overlooking the sea on land donated by British Acting Vice Consul Thomas Trood. Stevenson had always wanted his Requiem inscribed on his tomb: Stevenson was loved by the Samoans, and his tombstone epigraph was translated to a Samoan song of grief. Half of Stevenson's original manuscripts are lost, including those of "Treasure Island", "The Black Arrow," and "The Master of Ballantrae". His heirs sold his papers during World War
Louis de Robert Louis de Robert Louis de Robert (5 March 1871, Paris – 27 September 1937) was a French writer, winner of the prix Femina in 1911. He became friends with Émile Zola during the Dreyfus Affair and took a stand for the revision of the trial. A regular collaborator in "The Journal", with Jules Renard, Alphonse Allais, Octave Mirbeau, he was the first reader of the proofs of "Du côté de chez Swann", and dissuaded his friend Marcel Proust to shorten his novel. "Le Roman du malade", serialized in "Le Figaro" then published by the , Prix Femina 1911, the novel