Sketch of Swanston village Sketch of Swanston by James Nasmyth.
National Library reference: MS.3241, no. 38.


As a young man, Stevenson would often leave the city for the cottage which his father rented at Swanston, a village near Edinburgh. There where he would read and write, and walk in the nearby Pentland Hills.


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