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    Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
    Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
    Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
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    Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu

    By Robert Louis Stevenson

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
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    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.

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      Title: Father Damien

      an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu

      Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

      Release Date: February 28, 2007 [eBook #281]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FATHER DAMIEN***

      Transcribed from the 1914 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      FATHER DAMIEN

      AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REVEREND DOCTOR HYDE OF HONOLULU

      FROM

      ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

      1914

      london

      chatto & windus

      A new impression

      All rights reserved

      Sydney,

      February 25, 1890.

      Sir,—It may probably occur to you that we have met, and visited, and conversed; on my side, with interest.  You may remember that you have done me several courtesies, for which I was prepared to be grateful.  But there are duties which come before gratitude, and offences which justly divide friends, far more acquaintances.  Your letter to the Reverend H. B. Gage is a document which, in my sight, if you had filled me with bread when I was starving, if you had sat up to nurse my father when he lay a-dying, would yet absolve me from the bonds of gratitude.  You know enough, doubtless, of the process of canonisation to be aware that, a hundred years after the death of Damien, there will appear a man charged with the painful office of the devil’s advocate.  After that noble brother of mine, and of all frail clay, shall have lain a century at rest, one shall accuse, one defend him.  The circumstance is unusual that the devil’s advocate should be a volunteer, should be a member of a sect immediately rival, and should make haste to take upon himself his ugly office ere the bones are cold; unusual, and of a taste which I shall leave my readers free to qualify; unusual, and to me inspiring.  If I have at all learned the trade of using words to convey truth and to arouse emotion, you have at last furnished me with a subject.  For it is in the interest of all mankind, and the cause of public decency in every quarter of the world, not only that Damien should be righted, but that you and your letter should be displayed at length, in their true colours, to

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