Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Apr. 15.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Apr. 15.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463331448

Proposing Friday for their meeting a the Garrick. Noting that Dickens "fell foul of [William Henry] Wills yesterday" concerning Wills' failure to give the printer a correction for Collins' story [the second installment of "Sister Rose"], and mentioning that Wills responded that "it was a more triumphant thing to have two mistakes than none."

1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002c9 English writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Office of All the Year Round, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., to Frederick Lehmann, 1863 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125432 English novelist and publisher. From the description of ALS : Broadstairs, Kent, to Mr. Cullenford, 18...

Wills, W. Henry (William Henry), 1810-1880

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Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889

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