BIB_ID
287638
Accession number
MA 3150.50
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1856 Apr. 5.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.5 cm + envelope
Notes
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).
With postmark.
Written from No. 63 Avenue des Champs Elysées.
With postmark.
Written from No. 63 Avenue des Champs Elysées.
Summary
Telling her that money has been deposited in her account at Coutt's, and promising that more money will be forthcoming when he returns to England and does more periodical work; mentioning that he read part of his newest work to Charles Dickens, who liked it; noting that he plans to return to England in the middle of April. The letter mentions Edward Pigott and William Powell Frith.
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