Literary
BLACKMORE
(Richard Doddridge, 1825-1900, Novelist, author of 'Lorna Doone')
Autograph Letter Signed on a card to Mr Marston
saying “Here comes the residue of Springhaven, so that the 3 vols can be accurately mapped. No doubt you are right about Ill’ons.”[Illustrations] “It was only my fancy that at the Libraries, people wd rather carry off the books with pictures, & so drive Mudie etc to order more. I have written to Messrs Blackwood, requesting them to write to you ...”, 1 side correspondence card, no place, 6th October
Item Date: 1886
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Background
Springhaven: a tale of the Great War is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1887. It is set in Sussex during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and revolves around the plots of the villainous Captain Caryl Carne who attempts to aid a French invasion.
Mr Marston is almost certainly the publisher Edward MARSTON (1825-1914), who had just risen to a new level of prominence in the publishing firm Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington of London, since Sampson Low had died earlier in the year, in April 1886. Marston had been with the firm from 1856, well before the time that they published Blackmore’s Lorna Doone. The puzzling words in the second sentence are, It seems Blackmore and his publisher are being guided at least in part by some preference for or against illustrations amongst the patrons of circulating libraries like Mudie’s.
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