to Mrs. Baker

Vailima, Samoa, July 16, 1894.

DEAR MRS. BAKER,—I am very much obliged to you for your letter and the enclosure from Mr. Skinner.  Mr. Skinner says he ‘thinks Mr. Stevenson must be a very kind man’; he little knows me.  But I am very sure of one thing, that you are a very kind woman.  I envy you—my amanuensis being called away, I continue in my own hand, or what is left of it—unusually legible, I am thankful to see—I envy you your beautiful choice of an employment.  There must be no regrets at least for a day so spent; and when the night falls you need ask no blessing on your work.

‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of these.’—Yours truly,

Robert Louis Stevenson.