BIB_ID
106436
Accession number
MA 9794.3
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
London, England, 1862 November 21.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written from "12 Harley Street / W."
This letter is one of four letters from Collins to W.H. Wills, Jr. in this small collection. See MA 9794.1, MA 9794.2 and MA 9794.4.
W.H. Wills was secretary to Charles Dickens from 1846 and an assistant editor of Household Words from its inception and of All the Year Round until his retirement in 1868.
Docketed twice.
This letter is one of four letters from Collins to W.H. Wills, Jr. in this small collection. See MA 9794.1, MA 9794.2 and MA 9794.4.
W.H. Wills was secretary to Charles Dickens from 1846 and an assistant editor of Household Words from its inception and of All the Year Round until his retirement in 1868.
Docketed twice.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter and the payment into his account at Coutt's of £118.2.2 "...being the eighth of my balance of A.Y.R. to the end of my term. Mr. Bernard is certainly giving me plenty for my money. I wish I could write chapters as fast as he writes acts. perhaps you will kindly do the same with the MS of the play as it comes in, as was done with the dramatised version of Great Expectations? All I want, as you know, is my legal protection from the British Manager and Dramatist. I have been suffering since you called here - but I hope and believe I have turned the corner now. I don't expect to be well, until I have got the weight of No Name off my shoulders. Please God I shall be done with it in three numbers more - counting from No. 40. I am glad to hear you had a merry time of it in Paris."
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