A friendship in messages: with thanks to #RLS and @SandstonePress

Robert Louis Stevenson & J.M. Barrie, A Friendship in Letters, by Michael Shaw, Sandstone Press, 2020

“Write to me again in my infinite distance”

So wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in the year 1893 from his home in Samoa to fellow writer J. M. Barrie who was in, or near, his native town of Kirriemuir in Angus. I don’t think I’ll ever make it to Samoa but I do know Kirriemuir, which is close to where my mother was born, and the distance does indeed feel infinite in both geography and imagina...