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Richard Doddridge Blackmore Collection, Accession 5257-an, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
This collection was purchased by the University of Virginia Library on February 14, 1991.
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
acknowledging receipt of his beautiful book and expressing appreciation of the recipient's warm approval of his own works. He discusses writing literature and mentions his own work on "a little skit of fiction." He feels that the recipient's "gift is for longer & higher flights of imagination." Included is an advertisement for Lorna Doone
inviting him to spend a fortnight of his holidays with the Blackmores, provided it is approved by his father