Memories of RLS
p. 18 · Read in the full issue
Newspapers around the wori< commented on the death oc Austin Strong, grand-stepson ot Robert Louis Stevenson, and praise* his achievements as writer, architec and playwright. He was with RLS ii Samoa, and died in USA recently aged 71.
Curiously, none seems to have men tioned that his mother—who wai RLS’s stepdaughter and secretary and was with him in Samoa—is stil alive. She lives in Santa Barbara California, and she was 94 years oh on September 18, the day after he; son died. She is Mrs. Isobel Fieh (formerly Strong) and she keeps ii touch with her beloved Samoa (whici she left 60 years ago) by reading thi PIM, and writing the PlM’s editoc a cheery note a couple of times ; year. Mrs. Elsie Noble CaldweL writing us from Los Angles o< October 15, says Mrs. Field is well but shaken by the death of her son RLS married Mrs. Fanny Osborne who had two children by her firs marriage, Lloyd and Isobel. Lloy' Osborne and Isobel’s son by her fin marriage, Austin Strong, collaborate; in the production of plays. Austii attained the greatest success alom however.