title: Father Damien: The Man and His Era
author:  Margaret Bunson 
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  # Father Damien
  
  
  ### Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  
  
  
  
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  FATHER DAMIEN
  
  
  
  
  
  AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REVEREND DR. HYDE OF HONOLULU
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  SYDNEY,  
  
  
  FEBRUARY 25, 1890.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Sir,—It may probably occur to you that we have met, and visited,
  
  
  and conversed; on my side, with interest. You may remember that
  
  
  you have done me several courtesies, for which I was prepared to be
  
  
  grateful. But there are duties which come before gratitude, and
  
  
  offences which justly divide friends, far more acquaintances. Your
  
  
  letter to the Reverend H. B. Gage is a document which, in my sight,
  
  
  if you had filled me with bread when I was starving, if you had sat
  
  
  up to nurse my father when he lay a-dying, would yet absol