deeply attached to each other; in 1880 Fanny divorced her husband and married Stevenson when Lloyd was just twelve years old. As a boy, Lloyd and his stepfather painted a map of an imaginary island, and this was the inspiration for Stevenson's classic Treasure Island. Although he would study engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Osbourne wished to become a writer, an idea that was encouraged by his stepfather. South Seas with Stevenson In June 1888, Stevenson chartered a yacht and set sail with his new family from San Francisco across the Pacific Ocean, visiting important island groups. They stopped for an extended stay in the Hawaiian Islands where Stevenson became good friends with King Kalākaua. In 1890 Lloyd Osbourne, his mother, and Stevenson sailed from Sydney, Australia, into the central Pacific on the steam ship the Janet Nicoll. Lloyd Osbourne and Stevenson used a plate camera to photograph Pacific Islanders and passengers and crew of the Janet Nicoll. A passenger on the Janet Nicoll was Jack Buckland, whom Lloyd Osbourne and Stevenson used as a character in The Wrecker (1892). In 1890 the family settled in Samoa, where Stevenson died four years later on December 3. In 1894 Osbourne was appointed vice consul to represent the United States in Samoa. On April 9, 1896, Osbourne married Katherine Durham in Honolulu; they had two children. The couple divorced in 1914. In 1916 they remarried on condition that they would not have any more children; they later divorced again. Later years Osbourne spent the period of 1936 in the South of France with Yvonne Payerne, forty years his junior, by whom he had another son when he was 68 years old. In 1941, Osbourne returned alone to the U.S. when America entered the war. Yvonne and Samuel arrived in New York City on May 22, 1947, the same day that Osbourne died in California. Osbourne's son, Alan Osbourne, served in WWI and was an Editor-in-Chief of the U.S. Maritime Commission. Collaborations with Robert Louis Stevenson The Wrong Box The Ebb-Tide The Wrecker, which was also used as the basis for a 1957 television series episode of Maverick with the same title, starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, with due credit given to both Stevenson and Osbourne in the closing credits. Other works The Queen Versus Billy and Other Stories (1900) Forty Years Between (March 1903) Love, The Fiddler (1903) The Fugitives