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Robert Louis Stevenson winters at Saranac
1887
Saranac Lake, New York
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Stevenson spent a winter here for his lungs, wrote most of The Master of Ballantrae in a cottage he called a hat box, skated on the lake and complained about the cold in letters. The burn marks his cigarettes left on the mantelpiece were kept, and the cottage is now one of the smallest literary museums in the country.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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