BIB_ID
287690
Accession number
MA 3150.86
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1864 Oct. 19.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 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 the Lord Warden Hotel.
With postmark.
Written from the Lord Warden Hotel.
Summary
Describing his stay at Dover, and telling her that [Charles] Dickens and Miss [Georgina] Hogarth are also there; noting that he is returning to London and then going to visit Sir F[rancis] Goldsmid; reporting that Dickens has read his proofs for Armadale and was "greatly struck by them"; mentioning that his brother [Charles Allston Collins] and his wife have arrived safely at Wiesbaden.
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