BLACKMORE (Richard Doddridge, 1825-1900, Novelist, author of 'Lorna Doone')

Autograph Letter Signed on a card to J. A. Stuart thanking him for his"kind care. I think these lines must go now as they are' if you will oblige me by seeing that the printers do the corrections aright, then I need not trouble you any more ...", with a postscript that he will "look out for your book. It will be out, I daresay, before mine", 1 side correspondence card, with original autograph envelope, Teddington, 7th July

Blackmore's novel Dariel: a romance of Surrey was published in 1897. It is an adventure story set initially in Surrey before the action moves to the Caucasian mountains. The story is narrated by George Cranleigh, a farmer who falls in love with Dariel, the daughter of a Caucasian prince. Dariel was the last of Blackmore's novels, published just over two years before his death.

Item Date:  1897

Stock No:  40292      £225

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