BIB_ID
287651
Accession number
MA 3150.59
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1861 May 24.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (5 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 on stationery with "12. Harley Street, W." embossed at the top.
With postmark.
Written on stationery with "12. Harley Street, W." embossed at the top.
Summary
Describing his "first public appearance as Chairman of a Meeting"; reporting that he is "slowly ... building up the scaffolding of the new book"; mentioning a day on the river in a private steamer with "the Dickenses," [John] Forster, and [John] Scott Russell.
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