Autograph letter signed : Higham, to Wilkie Collins, 1862 Jan. [5].

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Autograph letter signed : Higham, to Wilkie Collins, 1862 Jan. [5].

Changing their appointment from Thursday to Friday, as Dickens has been reminded of a previous engagement with the Forsters on Thursday. Discussing Collins' rheumatic gout, mentioning Dickens' personal physician Frank Beard. Referencing Collins' leaving All the Year Round, noting that Dickens is "very sorry that [they] part company (though only in a literary sense), but hope [they] shall work together again, some day."

1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm.

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