DIARIES TO BE BURNED
No one 1 will ever know what were the private thoughts and memories of Richard Doddridge Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone. His "life" will never be written; the diaries, which contained valuable secrets about him. are to be burned.
For years they were guarded by his niece, Mrs. Adalgisa Pinto-Leite, who lived in the house the author built at Teddington. She died in February— and destruction of the diaries is ordered in her will.
Mrs. Augustus Pinto-Leite, her sister-in-law, said: "Adalgisa and her elder sister Eva were like daughters to Richard Blackmore. They lived with him all their lives, and we have the desk he used when writing 'Lorna Dpone. Eva, who died many years ago, was the heroine of 'The Maid of Sker,' which was Richard Blackmore's favourite among all the books he wrote."
Mrs. Adalgisa Pinto-Leite left '£13,712. She gave: To Exeter College^ Oxford, Ihe manuscript of "Cripps the Carrier." To the British Museum, all manuscripts of other books by Richard Blackmore, with the exception of "Lorna Doone," which was sold for a large sum of money in America; and a hundred pounds on trust for the upkeep of the author's grave at Teddington Cemetery.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 27
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201DIARIES TO BE BURNED Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 27
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