BIB_ID
287167
Accession number
MA 3151.59
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1870] Sept. 2.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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).
Woodlands is the Lehmanns' house in Highgate.--Cf. Baker, p. 209, n. 2.
Written on stationery embossed "90, Gloucester Place, Portman Square. W." 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).
Woodlands is the Lehmanns' house in Highgate.--Cf. Baker, p. 209, n. 2.
Written on stationery embossed "90, Gloucester Place, Portman Square. W." Signed "Ever yours / W.C."
Summary
Noting that Collins is ill with dyspepsia and gout, and woke this morning with "infernal pains in the inside this morning -- not diarrhea [sic], but neuralgia." Inviting Ward to "look in to dinner at 7" on Monday the 5th, noting that Collins intends to visit Woodlands on Saturday and Sunday.
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