BIB_ID
287655
Accession number
MA 3150.61
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1861 July 31.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 17.7 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 on stationery with "12. Harley Street, W." embossed at the top.
Written on stationery with "12. Harley Street, W." embossed at the top.
Summary
Gloating that Smith & Elder have offered him £5000 for "a work of fiction a little longer than The Woman in White"; telling her that no one but [Charles] Dickens "has made as much" for what he thinks will be "nine months or, at most, a year's work"; asking her to keep this news a secret until the agreements are signed.
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