BIB_ID
287716
Accession number
MA 3150.105
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1867] July 18.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 15.6 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, N.W. on stationery with a girl's head and "The Athenæum" embossed in the upper left corner.
With postmark and one-penny stamp; year of date from postmark.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, N.W. on stationery with a girl's head and "The Athenæum" embossed in the upper left corner.
Summary
Mentioning negotiations with an American publisher over an advance proof of his new book [The Moonstone]; telling her he has plans to sail with [Edward] Pigott but hopes to visit her after that.
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