Old Photograph Swanston Scotland

Old photograph of shepherd with sheep and cottages in Swanston by Edinburgh, Scotland. Robert Louis Stevenson spent several summers here in the 1870s, as a result of his father taking out a lease for a cottage from 1867 to 1880. Stevenson set his novel St. Ives in this village, describing the house in detail. It is also alleged that Stevenson wrote Treasure Island under a tree within yards from the cottage.



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