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Thomas Hardy stone plaque

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This stone commemorative plaque records: Thomas Hardy, O.M. was born in the adjacent cottage and in it wrote "Under the Greenwood Tree" and "Far from the Madding Crowd" This monument is erected to his memory by a few of his American admirers 1931 Recorded plaque organisation: American Friends.

From the Open Plaques record 42284

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