BIB_ID
287703
Accession number
MA 3150.96
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1866] July 4.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 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, N.W.
With postmark and stamp; year of date from postmark.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, N.W.
Summary
Complaining about gout; telling her he is trying to "get cured without Colchicum"; saying he will bring her a copy of the play [the dramatic version of Armadale]; noting that sales of Armadale as a novel have "fully satisfied the publishers"; mentioning that his "faithful public" pressured [Charles Edward] Mudie to buy copies of Armadale for his library.
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