to Charles Baxter

Union House, Manasquan, N.J., but address to Scribner’s,
11th May 1888.

MY DEAR CHARLES,—I have found a yacht, and we are going the full pitch for seven months.  If I cannot get my health back (more or less), ’tis madness; but, of course, there is the hope, and I will play big. . . . If this business fails to set me up, well, £2000 is gone, and I know I can’t get better.  We sail from San Francisco, June 15th, for the South Seas in the yacht Casco.—With a million thanks for all your dear friendliness, ever yours affectionately,

Robert Louis Stevenson.