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To WILLIAM H. RIDEING

 

70 Hamilton Terrace. | July 2. 1893

Dear Mr Rideing:

A pressure of engagements has caused a delay in my reply. A map of the scenes of my novels is what I should not like to be published just now, or indeed at any time by anybody but myself: but if you wish to write a description of those scenes from the real, I would willingly tell you privately places and points of landscape to which you might go for such descriptions. Perhaps this is all you require.

I could not possibly get to Mrs Rideing on the 30th. Please make my apologies to her.

Yours faithfully
T. Hardy.

Source: Hardy, Thomas. The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Vol 2. Edited by Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1980. 21.

 

 

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