Autograph letter signed : Boulogne, to Wilkie Collins, 1856 July 13.

Mentioning his work on Little Dorrit, and looking foreword to Collins' visit the following month. Praising Collins' work "Anne Rodway," noting that Dickens "cried as much as [Collins] could possibly desire." Mentioning "the Cat business [which] is too ludicrous to be treated of in so small a sheet of paper," and inviting Pigott to Boulogne. Disparaging a report of Mr. Peabody's American Dinner, noting that the "dirty Pecksiffianity that pervaded it and the Philoprogulldodgeitveness wherein it was steeped, have so affected [Dickens] that [he] has flown to Cockle [Anti-Bilious Pills] for succour." Referencing their work on the play "The Frozen Deep."