BIB_ID
287713
Accession number
MA 3150.102
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1867 May 30.
Credit line
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 one-penny stamp.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, N.W.
With postmark and one-penny stamp.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, N.W.
Summary
Suggesting a trip to visit her; noting that [Charles] Dickens has doubled the "marriage portion" of his daughter Katie [later Kate Perugini], who is married to Charles Allston Collins; noting that he will have the first weekly number of his new book for her to read; mentioning various acquaintances.
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