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Richard Henry Stoddard Collection, Accession 8456, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
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[Asks him to have the third volume of Thackeray sent to him; says he got the first and second volumes weeks ago.]
[Discusses Thackeray; asks him to inquire about his wife's periodicals which have stopped coming.]
[Attempts to find out from Anthony what the [J. Henry] Harper , [Stephen Ryder] Fiske , [Thomas] Hardy agreement on the dramatization of Tess of the D'Urbervilles is; says that his son, Lorimer Stoddard , who is sick in a sanitorium in New York , dramatized the novel and gave Fiske the right to present it in England ; says that Fiske refuses, or neglects, to enlighten Lorimer; Stoddard says he would not betray confidence.]