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The two Scottish writers never met, but their letters reveal a surprisingly deep bromance, says Michael Shaw

Robert Louis Stevenson at his desk. Credit: Alamy
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  • A Friendship in Letters: Robert Louis Stevenson & J.M. Barrie

    Edited by Michael Shaw

    Sandstone Press, pp. 192, £11

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