A Guide to the Richard Doddridge Blackmore Collection
A Collection in the
Special Collections Department
Accession number 5257-aj
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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-aj, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
This collection was purchased by the University of Virginia Library on October 27, 1989.
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Carrie Alger
- Frieligrath Krocker
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Item Listing
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore , Teddington, to Miss Carrie Alger1869 Aug 31ALS, 3 p. on 1 l.
expressing gratitude for receipt of "the pleasant & useful little book" and asking about her father and hoping that he is "carrying on his valuable work"; mentioning orders not to write due to the loss of use of his left hand but that he finds it "impossible to obey such orders, especially with so many good friends to shake by the hand vicariously"; and discussing his latest story that was written in a style "which the custom of the day requires."
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore , Teddington, to Mrs. Frieligrath Krocker1875 Oct 20ALS, 2 p. on 1 l.
discussing the copyright arrangement with Germany in relation to his book, Alice Lorraine
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Teddington, to Mrs. Holiday1878 Nov 4ALS, 2 p. on 1 l.
concerning her recently deceased brother, and writing "I treasure a great oak-stick which your dear brother gave me; it was of his own cutting"