Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1861 July 31.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1861 July 31.

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Gloating that Smith & Elder have offered him £5000 for "a work of fiction a little longer than The Woman in White"; telling her that no one but [Charles] Dickens "has made as much" for what he thinks will be "nine months or, at most, a year's work"; asking her to keep this news a secret until the agreements are signed.

1 item (7 p.) ; 17.7 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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