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Stevenson letters found in old chest

A TREASURE trove of documents from the family of Scots author Robert Louis Stevenson have been found in the abandoned site of an old museum.

The documents, letters from the famous family of lighthouse builders and civil engineers, were found in an old tea chest, under a plank of wood, in the North Berwick Museum which closed down a decade a go.

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