A Guide to the Richard Doddridge Blackmore Collection
A Collection in the
Special Collections Department
Accession number 5257-ai
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Richard Doddridge Blackmore Collection, Accession 5257-ai, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
This collection was purchased by the University of Virginia Library on March 2, 1989.
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Item Listing
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore to Miss [Carrie ?] Alger1882 Oct 18ALS, 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."]