BIB_ID
286939
Accession number
MA 3151.5
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1855 Aug. 20.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 86 letters from Wilkie Collins to Charles Ward. Items in this collection are described in individual records (MA 3151.1-86).
Written from 3, Albion Villas, Folkstone. Signed "Ever yours / W.W.C."
Written from 3, Albion Villas, Folkstone. Signed "Ever yours / W.W.C."
Summary
Discussing his leisure time in Folkstone, which is taken up primarily by smoking and sleeping. Noting that he meets the publisher George Smith nearly every day and mentioning that [Alfred Sydney] Wigan is unable to produce Collins' first play "The Lighthouse" at Folkstone's Olympic theater. Mentioning Dickens and that the Queen and Albert have come to Folkstone to review the Foreign Leigon. Asking Ward to purchase several books for him.
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