Abstract
Writing to his lifelong friend Charles Baxter on 8 March 1889 Stevenson confided: ‘Lloyd and I have finished a story, The Wrong Box. If it is not funny, I am sure I do not know what is. I have split over writing it.’ The story, originally entitled ‘The Finsbury Tontine’ and later ‘A Game of Bluff, had originally been written by Lloyd Osbourne, Stevenson’s stepson, in 1887. Stevenson had thought highly of the story and felt it showed considerable promise; so much so that he offered to revise it for publication and, intermittently over the next two years, set to work on an extensive revision of the original draft. During this period he was simultaneously at work on The Master of Ballantrae and it would be difficult to conceive of two more strongly contrasted works than the sombre, demonic Master and the light-hearted extravaganza of The Wrong Box.
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