BIB_ID
286977
Accession number
MA 3150.8
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1842 June 18 or 19?].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p.) : ill. ; 18 cm
Notes
Collins dates the letter "1/4 past 12 at night"; date is from William Baker's The public face of Wilkie Collins.
Part of a collection of 117 letters from Wilkie Collins to his mother, Harriet Collins. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 3150.1-117).
The letter bears the inscription "Willie's letters," presumably in Harriet Collins' hand.
This letter also contains an autograph letter signed from William Collins to his wife (p. 2-3).
Written on stationery with a sketch of a dog looking at a caged lion printed in the upper left corner; "Dec. 1st, 1841" and "Harwood's" are printed below the picture; "Dear ... I am sorry I can't be with you" is printed to the right of the sketch.
Part of a collection of 117 letters from Wilkie Collins to his mother, Harriet Collins. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 3150.1-117).
The letter bears the inscription "Willie's letters," presumably in Harriet Collins' hand.
This letter also contains an autograph letter signed from William Collins to his wife (p. 2-3).
Written on stationery with a sketch of a dog looking at a caged lion printed in the upper left corner; "Dec. 1st, 1841" and "Harwood's" are printed below the picture; "Dear ... I am sorry I can't be with you" is printed to the right of the sketch.
Summary
Noting that Scotland is so light at midnight that he is writing without a candle; sending word of his arrival in Thurso with his father; telling her that they plan to go to the Orkneys by the end of the week. William Collins asks his wife to have their son [Charles Allston Collins] write to him and tells her where to direct letters.
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