Autograph letter signed : Boulogne, to Wilkie Collins, 1856 July 13.

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Autograph letter signed : Boulogne, to Wilkie Collins, 1856 July 13.

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Mentioning his work on Little Dorrit, and looking foreword to Collins' visit the following month. Praising Collins' work "Anne Rodway," noting that Dickens "cried as much as [Collins] could possibly desire." Mentioning "the Cat business [which] is too ludicrous to be treated of in so small a sheet of paper," and inviting Pigott to Boulogne. Disparaging a report of Mr. Peabody's American Dinner, noting that the "dirty Pecksiffianity that pervaded it and the Philoprogulldodgeitveness wherein it was steeped, have so affected [Dickens] that [he] has flown to Cockle [Anti-Bilious Pills] for succour." Referencing their work on the play "The Frozen Deep."

1 item (4 p.) ; 18.7 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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