BIB_ID
287712
Accession number
MA 3150.101
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1867 May 11.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 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 9 Melcombe Place, N.W.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, N.W.
Summary
Discussing negotiations with All the year round for "the periodical right of publishing [his] new book"; describing how he and his brother [Charles Allston Collins] divided up some paintings; complaining of the heat, and noting that "copious perspiration, and invincible unwillingness to walk" have been his "principle symptoms."
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