The Black Arrow: A Tale of the…

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first appears as a serial, with the subtitle "A Tale of Tunstall Forest", in Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature.

Stevenson will complete he novel at the end of summer in France.

It is printed under the pseudonym Captain George North.

His main literary source is the Paston Letters, a collection of letters and papers consisting of the correspondence of members of the Paston family of Norfolk gentry, and others connected with them in England, between the years 1422 and 1509.