Robert Louis Stevenson "on the cuff," as he said, at a nearby restaurant run by Frenchman Jules Simoneau which stood at what is now Simoneau Plaza; several years later, he sent Simoneau an inscribed copy of his novel "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886), writing that it would be a stranger case still if Robert Louis Stevenson ever forgot Jules Simoneau. While in Monterey, he wrote an evocative article about "the Old Pacific Capital" of Monterey. By December 1879, Stevenson had recovered his health enough to continue to San Francisco where he struggled "all alone on forty-five cents a day,
Robert Horne Stevenson Robert Horne Stevenson Rev. Robert Horne Stevenson DD (27 October 1812 – 15 November 1886) was a Scottish minister. The son of John Stevenson of Gartclash, farmer, and Margaret, daughter of Robert Horne of Braziets, he was born at Netherinch, Campsie. He was educated at Campsie School and the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. He was licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton on 23 October 1832, and was tutor to A. J. Dennistoun-Brown of Balloch, with whom he travelled extensively on the continent of Europe. He served as missionary in the Second Charge, Kilmarnock, and was assistant at Crieff from 1839,