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
Hilda Kay Grant Miss Hilliard persuades one that they are commoner in life… [she] writes a sure sense of atmosphere". "Morgan's Castle" was Grant's last novel, although she published three subsequent works of non-fiction under her own name. "Robert Stevenson, engineer and sea-builder", was a biography of the lighthouse builder and grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson. She received a Canadian Centennial Commission grant to research and write "Samuel Cunard, Pioneer of the Atlantic Steamship", and was a Canada Council Award recipient. She also published short stories and poetry in such magazines as "Maclean's", "Chatelaine" and "Canadian Poetry". A lifelong gardener, even when limited