elf Western Samoa 1 Tala 1969 Robert Louis Stevenson

In the book "The Numismatic Aspects of Leprosy" by McFadden, Grost and Marr, an entire page (page 160) is dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson. A Presbyterian minister, Reverend C. M. Hyde of Honolulu, had written a highly defamatory letter regarding Father Damien (the Belgian Catholic priest who worked at the leper colony of Molokai, Hawaii from 1873 until his death from leprosy in 1889). "Stevenson's rebuttal, 'Open Letter To The Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu,' has been called 'one of the most searing philippics in English since the days of Alexander Pope.'...his elegant defense of Father Damien holds a place of prime importance alongside his more famous works."

This country is listed as Western Samoa in the older Krause catalogs, and under Samoa in the more recent catalogs.

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