Robert Lewis Stevenson, Plaque on Stevenson Mem. Cottage - Harrietstown, NY - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

In the Harrietstown village of Saranac Lake is the Stevenson Memorial Cottage, which is now a museum about the author and poet and includes this memorial plaque which features some of his verse.

The cottage is located on Stevenson Lane, north of the center of the village of Saranac Lake. New York Route 3, take a turn onto Pine Street, then turn left onto Stevenson Lane.

The building is a two story structure with white clapboard siding and a wrap-around porch. The plaque is on one of the walls of the cottage. Inside is a museum about the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote 'Treasure Island,' and 'Kidnapped,' among many other stories and essays. He lived in this cottage during the winter of 1887-1888, while being treated for his ailments at first thought to be tuberculosis. The rooms have walls full of information about the author and his family, and there are artifacts here, as well. The plaque outside has a portrait of him in a heavy coat, has a couple quotations from his works, and states that he stayed here in the winter of 1887-8.

Poems that he wrote include:
-Requiem
-My Shadow
-Romance
-A Good Boy
-From a Railway Carriage

The following is a piece from 'My Shadow'
From Child's Garden of Verses:

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

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