BIB_ID
289342
Accession number
MA 93.12
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1854 Apr. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
"That" book is a reference to Collins' Hide and Seek (which was, in fact, already completed and published before Collins left for Boulogne).
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 Tavistock House. Signed CD.
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 Tavistock House. Signed CD.
Summary
Asking him to join Dickens and "the Colonel" [Augustus Egg] for dinner the following Sunday. Noting that he has let "Beaucourt's house above the Molyneaux" for the following summer, and hopes that Collins will write the third volume of "that" book there. Mentioning Townshend, hoping that he does not have "another choral birthday."
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