Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Mar. 19.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Mar. 19.

Praising Collins' "Sister-Rose," and offering suggestions on refining the text. Inquiring after Collins, and asking whether he shall come up to Ashford, noting that "Mark [Lemon] (whose face is at present enormous) is going." Mentioning [William Henry] Wills, Dickens' talk at the Literary Fund, and [John] Forster, and asking for [Edward Frederick Smyth] Pigott's address.

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