BIB_ID
157447
Accession number
MA 2806
Creator
Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge), 1825-1900.
Display Date
1889 October 9.
Credit line
Gift of Robert S. Pirie, 1972.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 13.7 x 8.8 cm
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Summary
Concerning the possibility of writing another novel: "No more novel writing for me for a long time, if at all in this world. Poets poetise in [Elysium]; but whether novelists novelise, we know not, & hope for the best about it. If I attempted any prose-tale now, it will be about 1 vol. regulation; & I shall offer it to Messrs. Harper, first for Mag. about 3 nos., & then for my sandwich, wh. will do better in the new world than the old; at least I hope it may be so"; mentioning that several editors of magazines have asked him for stories recently, but he has turned them down; adding that a young man has written him and asked for lessons in gardening, promising to work in the garden in exchange for them: "If he can eat all the pears blown down on Monday, he will be able to make fruit-growing pay, for a pig alone can do so, & get pork out of it."
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