BIB_ID
287695
Accession number
MA 3150.91
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1866] Mar. 26.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 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 and stamp; year of date from postmark.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, N.W.
With postmark and stamp; year of date from postmark.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, N.W.
Summary
Telling her that he expects to finish Armadale next month; noting that he "should have been nearer the end, if [he] had not encountered difficulties in reconciling necessary chemical facts, with the incidents of the story"; asking how her preparations for moving are going; explaining that he has "no news" because he "refuse[s] most invitations, and stick[s] to [his] work."
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