They nearly met! They were both in San Francisco in early spring of 1880. They were both about to marry American ladies; Louisa Wanda Strentzel and Fanny Van de Grift. They must have

passed each other in the fog!

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They both wrote boyishly about California and the extremes between play and death there.

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John Muir must have been a fan; he had a copy of the complete works of RLS in his small set of books.

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You can read much more in an essay by Matthew Kaiser.