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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: might have said, and that I ought to have done, to prove that I am
not altogether unconscious of the great debt of gratitude I owe
you. This little book, which is all about my childhood, should
indeed go to no other person but you, who did so much to make that
childhood happy.
Do you know, we came very near sending for you this winter. If we
had not had news that you were ill too, I almost believe we should
have done so, we were so much in trouble.
I am now very well; but my wife has had a very, very bad spell,
through overwork and anxiety, when I was LOST! I suppose you heard
of that. She sends you her love, and hopes you will write to her,
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