BIB_ID
287715
Accession number
MA 3150.104
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1867] July 7.
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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 and one-penny stamp; year of date from postmark.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, N.W.
With postmark and one-penny stamp; year of date from postmark.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, N.W.
Summary
Asking her to send his father's [William Collins] autograph so he can send it to an American collector; noting that Mrs. [Nina] Lehmann has had "another attack of inflammation of the lungs"; telling her he has "settled nothing about a new place of abode yet."
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