BIB_ID
287643
Accession number
MA 3150.53
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1859 July 14.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.9 cm
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).
Written from 2a, New Cavendish Street, Portland Place, W[estminster].
Written from 2a, New Cavendish Street, Portland Place, W[estminster].
Summary
Telling her he has returned to London but plans to return to Gadshill with his brother [Charles Allston Collins] at [Charles] Dickens's invitation; noting that Dickens's trip to America "seems inevitable" because "he will lose a fortune if he does not go"; discussing "what seaside place to go to next month."
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