BIB_ID
287723
Accession number
MA 3150.110
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1867 Sept. 12.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 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.
Written on stationery printed with "90, Gloucester Place. Portman Square. W." at the top.
With postmark and one-penny stamp.
Written on stationery printed with "90, Gloucester Place. Portman Square. W." at the top.
Summary
Discussing the work being done on his new house; telling her about a dinner with [Charles] Dickens; saying he has written to Smith & Elder to say he "will give evidence if needful against the ruffian who has taken [his] name and [his] books in vain"; mentioning that a stray kitten "is galloping over [his] back and shoulders, which makes writing difficult."
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