BIB_ID
106802
Accession number
MA 9794.2
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
London, England, 1860 February 15.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.2 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Written from "2a. New Cavendish 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 9794.3 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 "15 Feb. 1860 / Wilkie Collins / 20 New Cavendish St / Saying that the last of / 'The Woman in White' / would appear on the 18th / or 25 July next."
This letter is one of four letters from Collins to W.H. Wills, Jr. in this small collection. See MA 9794.1, MA 9794.3 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 "15 Feb. 1860 / Wilkie Collins / 20 New Cavendish St / Saying that the last of / 'The Woman in White' / would appear on the 18th / or 25 July next."
Summary
Concerning his projected completion of "The Woman in White"; saying "If I don't knock up, go mad, or die, the last number of The Woman in White will appear on Wednesday the 18th or Wednesday the 15th of July next, in A.Y.R. This is as nearly as I can calculate it, at present. I may be a week over the mark - but I am not likely to be a week under. You tell Lever to put the pot of inspiration on to boil at the beginning of June I think you may be sure of giving him a good six weeks' notice."
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