BIB_ID
289596
Accession number
MA 93.106
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1862 Jan. [5].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Collins left All the Year Round for an offer of £5000 to publish what became his Armadale in the Cornhill Magazine.
Part of a large collection of letters from Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins. Letters are cataloged individually; see related records for full description.
Written on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Dated "Sunday January Fourth 1862," but, Sunday was the 5th in 1862. 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 on Gad's Hill Place stationery. Dated "Sunday January Fourth 1862," but, Sunday was the 5th in 1862. Signed CD.
Summary
Changing their appointment from Thursday to Friday, as Dickens has been reminded of a previous engagement with the Forsters on Thursday. Discussing Collins' rheumatic gout, mentioning Dickens' personal physician Frank Beard. Referencing Collins' leaving All the Year Round, noting that Dickens is "very sorry that [they] part company (though only in a literary sense), but hope [they] shall work together again, some day."
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