BIB_ID
287645
Accession number
MA 3150.55
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1859 Sept. 2.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 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 Church Hill Cottage.
With postmark.
Written from Church Hill Cottage.
Summary
Telling her [Charles] Dickens is staying near him for the week; noting that his brother [Charles Allston Collins] will return to London with Dickens next Monday; reporting that he is working diligently on his writing; complaining that he will be "literally driven away by the extortions of the Broadstairs people" and that "no moderate income can cope with their demands"; asking her to send a check for £25.
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