BIB_ID
287656
Accession number
MA 3150.62
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1861 Aug. 7.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 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).
The letter is incomplete.
Written from the Royal Hotel.
The letter is incomplete.
Written from the Royal Hotel.
Summary
Describing his lodgings at Whitby and the train trip over the Yorkshire moors; informing her that the "five thousand pound negotiation" with Smith & Elder is settled; asking her to "keep all this a profound secret from everybody"; expressing his belief that [Sampson] Low, his former publisher, is "finely exasperated at losing" him.
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