Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, [1865] May 2.

Record ID: 
287693
Accession number: 
MA 3150.89
Author: 
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description: 
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
Notes: 

With postmark and stamp.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, N.W. on "Tuesday."
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).

Summary: 

Telling his mother that Charley [Charles Allston Collins] and his wife will be at Tunbridge Wells next week; expressing his hope that he will be able to come visit them on Monday; mentioning the Academy Dinner and the greeting he got from [Henry William] Pickersgill.