A Guide to the Richard Doddridge Blackmore Collection #5257-ai

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore Collection, Accession 5257-ai, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

This collection was purchased by the University of Virginia Library on March 2, 1989.

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Letter

Richard Doddridge Blackmore to Miss [Carrie ?] Alger
1882 Oct 18
ALS, 4 p.

[thanks her for the note-book, discusses the cultivation of roses, grapes, strawberries, and pears, comments about the comparative lack of censorship in America, and writes concerning American writers, "Your great man is yet to come who shall write not of Europe, but of you. Why he has been so long coming, is the wonder."]

A Guide to the Richard Doddridge Blackmore Collection