The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. 24 (Classic Reprint) - Robert Louis Stevenson

Excerpt from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. 24
In September of the same year, 1883, Stevenson had felt deeply the death of his old friend James Walter Ferrier (see the essay Old Mortality and the references in the following letters). But still his health held out fairly, until, in January 1884, on a visit to Nice, he was un expectedly prostrated anew by an acute congestion of the internal organs, which for the time being brought him to death's door. Returning to his home, his recovery had been only partial when, after four months (may a recurrence of violent hemorrhages from the lung once more prostrated him completely; soon after which he quitted Hyeres, and the epidemic of cholera which broke out there the same summer prevented all thoughts of his return.
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