South Seas With Stevenson
In June 1888, Stevenson chartered a yacht and set sail with his new family from San Francisco across the Pacific Ocean, visiting important island groups. They stopped for an extended stay in the Hawaiian Islands where Stevenson became good friends with King Kalākaua.
in 1890 Lloyd Osbourne, his mother and Stevenson sailed from Sydney, Australia, into the central Pacific on the steam ship the Janet Nicoll, Lloyd Osbourne and Robert Louis Stevenson used a plate camera to photograph pacific islanders and passengers and crew of the Janet Nicoll. A passenger on the Janet Nicoll was Jack Buckland, whom Lloyd Osbourne and Robert Louis Stevenson used as a character in The Wrecker (1892).
In 1890 the family eventually settled in Samoa where Stevenson would die four years later on December 3. In 1894 Osbourne was appointed vice consul to represent the United States in Samoa.
On April 9, 1896 Osbourne married Katherine Durham in Honolulu and was divorced in 1914. Their children were Alan (b. 1897) and Louis (b. 1900). In 1916 they remarried on condition that there should be no more children, and later divorced again.
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