Letter from Wilkie Collins, London, to Charles Dickens, Jr.,1878 June 19 : autograph manuscript signed.

Clarifying his rights with respect to an offer to reprint "Percy and the Prophet;" saying "A country newspaper-proprietor makes me an offer in money for permission to reprint "Percy and the Prophet" in certain newspapers with which he is connected, circulating in the country only. Do you see any objection to this? I trouble you on this subject because (on looking over our correspondence) I find that the right of serial republication in England, after a lapse of time, never occurred to me as a right to be reserved - and, although I find myself stipulating in my letter to you that the only right sold was "the right of publishing the story in your extra number only", still I had no such reprint then in contemplation as the reprint that is now for the first time in my experience proposed to me. As I see it, "Percy" has served his purpose in A.Y.R. by this time, and the manner in which he may be reprinted in the country is of little consequence, except to me - seeing that P. is too short to run alone in book-form. One line please to let me know what you think;" adding, in a postscript, "I ought to add that I know this newspaper proprietor to be a perfectly responsible man, and that I am now in treaty with him for a long serial story."