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Birthday. The late Robert Louis Stevenson; his goth; observed by Annie H. Ide Cockran, widow of Tammany Orator Bourke Cockran. Stevenson formally deeded it to her when she was a little girl because she was "born out of all reason on Christmas day" and hence "denied the consolation and profit of a proper birthday." She celebrated in Manhattan in the manner stipulated by the legatee-"by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verses according to the manner of our ancestors...
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...Manhattan the 88th birthday of the late Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was celebrated by proxy by Mrs. Annie Ide Cockran, who has had full and undisputed right to Stevenson's birthday (November 13) for 47 years. Reason: in 1891 her father, General Henry Clay Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his great & good friend Stevenson that his small daughter Annie always felt aggrieved because her birthday fell on December 25. Straightway Author Stevenson drew up, signed, had witnessed a document transferring to her all the rights & privileges...
...Edwin Ide Brainard...
...Edwin Ide Brainard...