Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish author. He wrote novels, travel books, poetry, and books for children. He suffered from weak lungs, and spent…more
He played the flageolet and had studied harmony. In the 1880s and 1890s he composed several songs, with titles which include Fanfare, Tune for Flageolet, Habanera, and Quadrille.
Stevenson's book A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892) was a stinging attack on the European officials then administering the Samoan Islands. It led to two of the officials being replaced, and Stevenson feared he might be deported from the islands.