Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1861 Dec. 12.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1861 Dec. 12.

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Telling her of his visit to Sir F[rancis] Goldsmid's house; noting that the first volume of his story "is being set up in type" but has "no title fixed as yet"; referring to an enclosed letter from an admirer [letter not included in this collection]; reporting the authorship of all the works in the Christmas number of All the year round; remarking that The woman in white has been translated into French and a French duke wrote to him "in raptures"; commenting on an extract from the Times (attached to the letter on p. 3) that reports the death of William Dodsworth, a family acquaintance.

1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Collins, Harriet Geddes, 1790-1868,

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Dodsworth, William, 1798-1861

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Goldsmid, Francis Henry, Sir, 1808-1878

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