BIB_ID
287644
Accession number
MA 3150.54
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1859 July 26.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 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 2a, New Cavendish Street, Portland Place, W[estminster].
With postmark.
Written from 2a, New Cavendish Street, Portland Place, W[estminster].
Summary
Informing her that his brother [Charles Allston Collins] is staying at Gadshill; noting that he found lodgings outside Broadstairs and will be there for six weeks, working on a long serial story for All the year round; asking her to send a check; telling her about what he has had published recently, including After dark and "The bachelor bedroom"; mentioning [Alfred] Tennyson.
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