Wife burnt Jekyll Hyde manuscript

London - Robert Louis Stevenson's wife burnt the first draft of his landmark work, Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, claiming the book…

London - Robert Louis Stevenson's wife burnt the first draft of his landmark work, Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, claiming the book was "a quire full of utter nonsense" in a letter discovered 115 years later.

Descendants of W.E. Henley, an English poet and friend of the Stevensons, found the letter which was addressed to him in 1885, in their family's home. Fanny Stevenson wrote: "Fortunately he has forgotten it all now, and I shall burn it after I show it to you. He said it was his greatest work."

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