<P> A bronze relief memorial to Stevenson, designed by the American sculptor Augustus Saint - Gaudens in 1904, is mounted in the Moray Aisle of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh . Saint - Gaudens' scaled - down version of this relief is in the collection of the Montclair Art Museum . Another small version depicting Stevenson with a cigarette in his hand rather than the pen he holds in the St. Giles memorial is displayed in the Nichols House Museum in Beacon Hill, Boston . </P> <P> Another memorial in Edinburgh stands in West Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle; it is a simple upright stone inscribed with "RLS--A Man of Letters 1850--1894" by sculptor Ian Hamilton Finlay in 1987 . In 2013, a statue of Stevenson as a child with his dog was unveiled by the author Ian Rankin outside Colinton Parish Church . The sculptor of the statue was Alan Herriot, and the money to erect it was raised by the Colinton Community Conservation Trust . </P> <P> A plaque above the door of a house in Castleton of Braemar states "Here R.L. Stevenson spent the Summer of 1881 and wrote Treasure Island, his first great work". </P> <P> A garden was designed by the Bournemouth Corporation in 1957 as a memorial to Stevenson, on the site of his Westbourne house, "Skerryvore", which he occupied from 1885 to 1887 . A statue of the Skerryvore lighthouse is present on the site . </P>

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