During the month of August, 1915, while making a pilgrimage through the Adirondack Mountains, I stopped to visit friends in Saranac Lake. Among them, combating ill health, was Stephen Chalmers, the novelist and short story writer.
He pointed out the places of interest and told me the story of how that remote hamlet had brought back to life numberless exiles who had gone there ill to come away cured.
"Robert Louis Stevenson spent the winter of 1887-88 here," said he. "Occupying the Baker cottage near Pine street, overlooking theSaranac River. It is worth a visit. Some of his finest work was done under that roof."
"Take me there," I pleaded, longing to see a house in which the author of "Kidnapped" had found shelter. "Who occupies it now?"
"The same people from whom Stevenson rented the wing in which he lived." -- By Bob Davis (1927)
