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Letter from Richard Doddridge Blackmore to the Editor of Men and Women of the Day, Accession #5257-ba, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This letter was purchased from David J. Holmes, Philadelphia, by the University of Virginia Library on September 3, 1997.
This collection consists of an autograph note, April 25, 1890, signed by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Teddington, to the Editor [Richard Bentley] of Men & Women of the Day: A Picture Gallery of Contemporary Portraiture , thanking him for his flattering proposal which he did not accept, "having declined all such offers from those who have the strongest claim on me."