BIB_ID
107816
Accession number
MA 3151.1-86
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1847 Aug. 10-1871 Dec. 6.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
86 items (ca. 200 p.), unbound ; ca. 17-20 cm
Notes
Charles Ward was an intimate friend of Wilkie Collins, and an employee at the bank Coutts & Co. where he regularly functioned as Collins's informal banker. He married Collins's cousin Jane Carpenter and frequently dined with Collins and Caroline Graves at their home.
Collection housed with MA 3152, MA 3154, MA 3155, and MA 3156 in a blue cloth drop-spine box labeled "Wilkie Collins / Letters / to / Charles Ward / MA 3151."
Letters are cataloged individually (MA 3151.1-86).
Two letters (MA 3151.1, .3) with addresses.
Collection housed with MA 3152, MA 3154, MA 3155, and MA 3156 in a blue cloth drop-spine box labeled "Wilkie Collins / Letters / to / Charles Ward / MA 3151."
Letters are cataloged individually (MA 3151.1-86).
Two letters (MA 3151.1, .3) with addresses.
Summary
Collection consists of 86 autograph letters (MA 3151.1-86) from Wilkie Collins to Charles Ward. Letters concern primarily financial matters, but with frequent mentions of Collins's current work, numerous invitations to dine, and some references to Collins's long-time partner Caroline Graves, her daughter Harriet (who was also known as Caroline Junior), and Charles Dickens. Most letters signed "Ever yours / W.C."
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (37.4 cm)
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