Of their ability, their sterling qualities of character, and their eccentricities he has told in his essay, A Family of Engineers. His grandfather, his father and several of his uncles were builders of lighthouses. He was born in Edinburgh, November 13, 1850. To his personal acquaintances he was lovable because of his brilliancy, his high-mindedness, his humor and his broad sympathies to his readers he was lovable because he carried these qualities into his writings. Our intimate knowledge of his life is due in part to the degree to which he put his experiences into his books, in part to the sympathy and admiration aroused by his plucky fight to do his work under the heavy odds of ill health. Few writers of our own generation have been so well known or have so appealed to the personal affections of their readers as Robert Louis Stevenson.
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