VALUABLE SECRETS
AUTHOR'S DIARIES WILL BE BURNED No one will over 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 wore guarded by his niece, Mrs Adailgisa Pinto-Leite, who lived in the house the author built at Tcddington. 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 Blackmon?. They lived'with'him all their' lives! and we have the desk he used when writing ‘Lorna Doone.’ Eva. who died' mnnv years ago. was the heroine of ‘ The Maid of Sker,’ which was Richard Bladkmore’s favourite among all the bonks he wrote.”
Mrs Adalgisa Pinto-Leite left £13,712. She,gave; To Exeter College,'Oxthe manuscript of ‘ Cripps the Carrier.’ To the. British Museum, all mimuscrints of other books by Richard Blackmore. with the exception of ‘ Lorna Doo.no,’ 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 Star, Issue 23113, 12 November 1938, Page 23
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197VALUABLE SECRETS Evening Star, Issue 23113, 12 November 1938, Page 23
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