I have now no further use for a birthday

"In 1891, 8 years after his classic novel, Treasure Island, was first published in book-form, author Robert Louis Stevenson learned that the 12-year-old daughter of Henry Clay Ide — then U. S. Commissioner to Samoa, where Stevenson lived — was unhappy that her birthday fell on Christmas Day. Stevenson immediately hatched a charming plan ..."

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/i-have-now-no-further-use-for-birthday.html