BIB_ID
289324
Accession number
MA 93.8
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1853 June 30.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins. Letters are cataloged individually; see related records for full description.
Written from Boulogne. Signature excised.
Written from Boulogne. Signature excised.
Summary
Discussing Collins' illness and recovery, and looking forward to his visit to Dickens in Boulogne, noting that it will "bring [Collins] round triumphantly." Discussing his own illness, noting that he was "thoroughly disabled" but that he "recovered with surprising quickness" from his "old, afflicted KIDNEY."
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