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Adventures and Letters

CHAPTER III
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And when I say "writing"-- O, believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

If you will do this I hope to hear of you some day.
Please excuse this sermon from Your obliged ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
In the spring of 1889 Richard as the correspondent of the Philadelphia Telegraph, accompanied a team of Philadelphia cricketers on a tour of Ireland and England, but as it was necessary for him to spend most of his time reporting the matches played in small university towns, he saw only enough of London to give him a great longing to return as soon as the chance offered.

Late that summer he resumed his work on The Press, but Richard was not at all satisfied with his journalistic progress, and for long his eyes had been turned toward New York.

There he knew that there was not only a broader field for such talent as he might possess, but that the chance for adventure was much greater, and it was this hope and love of adventure that kept Richard moving on all of his life.
On a morning late in September, 1889, he started for New York to look for a position as reporter on one of the metropolitan newspapers.

I do not know whether he carried with him any letters or that he had any acquaintances in the journalistic world on whose influence he counted, but, in any case, he visited a number of offices without any success whatever.


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