BIB_ID
202368
Accession number
MA 9797
Creator
Davenport, Fanny, 1850-1898.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1889 September 22.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 19.3 x 12.0 cm
Notes
Written on stationery engraved with her initials, F.L.G.D., Fanny Lily Gipsey Davenport.
Mounted on a scrap book page with a note below the letter, in an unknown hand, "Written the day before his death."
Written on the verso of the scrapbook page, in an unknown hand, "Dinner given to Wilkie Collins - by the members, / of the Century Club, New York. U.S.A. / Autographs of the Company" (See MA 9801.4).
Mounted on a scrap book page with a note below the letter, in an unknown hand, "Written the day before his death."
Written on the verso of the scrapbook page, in an unknown hand, "Dinner given to Wilkie Collins - by the members, / of the Century Club, New York. U.S.A. / Autographs of the Company" (See MA 9801.4).
Summary
Inquiring about his health and asking for a photograph; saying "I have been endeavoring for some weeks to find out your home address - at last I saw it in a newspaper. I am so so sorry to hear of your continued illness, for though I only met you once your welcome was so courteous, so warm and sympathetic, I shall ever look upon it and remember as a green spot in my life. Have you now a mounted picture. the one you gave me ornaments my study in a favorite nook. I hope this letter will find you entirely restored dear Mr. Collins."
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