BIB_ID
287733
Accession number
MA 3150.112
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1867 Sept. 25.
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 with "90, Gloucester Place. Portman Square. W." printed at the top.
With postmark and one-penny stamp.
Written on stationery with "90, Gloucester Place. Portman Square. W." printed at the top.
Summary
Telling her he has been staying with the Lehmanns at Highgate to avoid the "hammering" at his own house; saying he is going to give his servants "a new gown apiece, in recognition of their extraordinary merit"; discussing having his books published in railway editions by [George?] Smith or Chapman & Hall; mentioning that [Charles] Dickens is having a difficult time deciding whether or not to do an American tour. A note at the top of p. 1 mentions The Athenaeum and promises to send her more brandy.
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