A Guide to the Letter from Frances Hodgson Burnett to Richard Watson Gilder September 6, 1906
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Letter from Frances Hodgson Burnett to Richard Watson Gilder, Accession # 6817-b, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This holding was purchased on May 27, 1993.
Scope and Content Information
In this letter to editor Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909), Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), Maytham Hall, Rolvenden, Kent [England], discusses some changes she wants to make on the proof of her book The Shuttle . Burnett suggests that the first Vanderpoel be a tradesman from the North of England instead of a Dutchman or that the wife of the first Vanderpoel be the daughter of such a man. She feels that this would explain "English blood being stronger..." in the main character, Betty [Bettina Vanderpoel] "than the other blood..."