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
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea when he wrote his best-selling novel "Room at the Top". Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is a small town in Northumberland, England, on the North Sea coast. Once an important port for shipping grain and a coal mining town, it is still a small fishing port making use of traditional coble boats. Newbiggin derives its name from the Old English "nīwe" (new) + Middle English "bigging" (building, house), and may refer to an extension of the early settlement and parish of Woodhorn. The church was for centuries a chapel only, with a tower surmounted by a spire which was originally used as a