Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Mar. 24.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Mar. 24.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463320119

Expressing pleasure at Collins' "great improvement" and that he will be traveling to Ashford, giving specifications as to the arrangements. Discussing [Dinah Mulock] and her publication, and mentioning [Sir John Everett] Millais, and referencing his painting "The Rescue." Noting that [William Henry] Wills informed Georgina [Hogarth] that his sister is "Abnormal," from which Dickens inferrs "that Abnormal is a kind of scientific substitute for Ricketty." With a postscript noting that he dined with "an old General" [Sir Charles Pasley] "who went perfectly mad at dinner about the Times."

1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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