1897 ... Robert Louis Stevenson monument
It turns out that Robert Louis Stevenson was quite the modern fellow. He had fallen in love with Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, a married American woman, at Grez, an artist's colony in France. She returned to the states to repair her marriage, Stevenson followed. Both he and she ended up in S.F., married and then hied off to his families home in Scotland. Think of it as the 1880's version of a current political soap.
This memorial (pictured) is in Portsmouth Plaza, about two blocks down the street from me, and not that far from 608 Bush, where Stevenson stayed for a time. Now Portsmouth is the gathering area for Chinatown, but then it was a central plaza to a much younger city.
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