BIB_ID
396101
Accession number
MA 13362
Creator
Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge), 1825-1900.
Display Date
1887 August 7.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 13.6 x 9 cm
Notes
Identity of recipient deduced from internal evidence; Mrs. Hayne was the widow of Southern American poet Paul Hamilton Hayne, who was, along with his wife, a friend and correspondent of Blackmore before his death 1886 at his home in Georgia.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning his delay in answering her "kind letter" owing to the loss of the use of his left hand; hoping that she and her son will recover their health now that they are "back again among the beloved pine-trees"; praising the beauties of her husband's poetry and wondering if his son will ever "write in the like strain"; the drought in England and impact it has had on his garden, with reference to the extreme weather and flooding the recipient has recently experienced in Georgia.
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