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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : Broadstairs, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1862 Oct. 1.

BIB_ID
287659
Accession number
MA 3150.65
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1862 Oct. 1.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 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 from the Fort House.
Summary
Expressing his satisfaction that she is probably going to pay another country visit instead of living alone in London; complaining about the humid weather; noting that his publisher [Sampson] Low is going to begin printing No name and wants him to finish the book for the Christmas season; telling her that he has a letter from [Charles] Dickens praising No name.