BIB_ID
287062
Accession number
MA 3151.25
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
Tuesday [1861] Apr. 16.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.1 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 on stationery embossed "12 Harley Street, W." Signed "Ever yours WC."
Written on stationery embossed "12 Harley Street, W." Signed "Ever yours WC."
Summary
Inviting Ward to dine on Thursday next, noting that Collins and Caroline [Graves] "have both been on the sick" since they last saw him. With a postscript discussing the "cheap edition" of The Woman in White, which "promises to beat everything [they] have done yet." Noting that they are starting at 10,000 copies, but that [his publisher Sampson] Low expects to sell 50,000, and that Collins must sit for another photograph.
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