ALS to Herbert Watkins, [Wednesday] 14 April 1858. Single sheet, laid paper, no watermark, 179x111mm, integral blank leaf missing, small embossed oval device 12x10mm top left.
The Public Face of Wilkie Collins I 159
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11 Harley Place Marylebone Road, N.W. April 14th 1858 My dear Sir, I have been out of town, or I should have answered your kind note before. I send with this - as the best contribution I can offer to your library, thus far - my last written book. Pray accept it, as the most careful "study from Nature" that I have yet made, and believe me, Very truly yours Wilkie Collins To Herbert Watkins Esqre |
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NOTES
1. 2 Harley Place, New Road became 11 Harley Place, Marylebone Road by order on 20 February 1857
and Wilkie started using the address in October that year..
2. Herbert Watkins, Photographer of 179 and later 215 Regent Street.
Three weeks earlier on 20 March Wilkie had written asking for three copies of the
'admirable profile' photograph
which Watkins had taken. He also took a
full length study of Wilkie in 1861.
3. His latest published book was The Dead Secret published 1 June 1857
