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Unusual Christmas Gift From Stevenson to Annie Ide
In 1891 Robert Louis Stevenson, while in Samoa, gave Annie Ide of Saint Johnsbury Vermont a remarkable birthday gift by transferring to her the right to celebrate November 13 as her birthday instead of Christmas. The deed, witnessed in Samoa, was sent to Annie and led to future celebrations in Samoa and later at home in New York. Annie Ide later kept the birthday alive through marriage to Bourke Cochran and even passed it to her niece Anita Leslie.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
New England
Western Newsgeser Union
Elmo Scott Watson Orty
Henry Clay Ide
Vermont
Green Mountain
Samoan Islands
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Ide
Samoa
Ihe
Stevenson
Annie
Ike
Ballantrae
Mora
Valuima
Upol
Annie KE. Ide
H. C. Ide
Saint Johnsbury
Caledonia
United States of America
H.C. Ide
Annie H. Ide
Eli
Annie K. Ide
Annie H. I
Annie H. de
Louisa
Annie HL Ide
Lloyd Osbourne
Harold Watts
Little Annie
Shay
Annie Ide
W.bourke Cochran
New York
Port Washington
Long Island
Paris
Anita Leslie
Shane Leslie
Marjorie Ide Leslie
Amie Ide Cochran
Miss Leslie
Dorn
Prince Edward
Duchess of
Kent
England
Duchess of Gloucester
Evangeline Booth
The
Salvation Army
Helen Twelvetrees
Rebecca West
Gladys Swarthout
Robert L. Ripley
Paul Manship
Belle Pyker
Jerry Rodman
New York Sun