BIB_ID
287100
Accession number
MA 3151.39
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1862] Sept. 11.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Date from Baker.
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 The Fort House, Broadstairs. Signed "Ever yours W.C."
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 The Fort House, Broadstairs. Signed "Ever yours W.C."
Summary
Discussing accounts, asking Ward to purchase from Jeff's (the London outlet of the Parisian firm Hachette) The Révue Contemporaine, in which there is a review of Collins's life and writings. Discussing weather and the visitors [Edward] Pigott and Henry Bullar. With a postscript enclosing a "letter from the greatest ass in existence," asking Ward to translate the German part for Collins.
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