ALS Wilkie Collins to Edmund Yates - small scrap only cut from the bottom of the letter. 56x108mm, laid paper with watermark [1]858.
The Public Face of Wilkie Collins I 186
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...on the woodblock. If you can say a word for him in the right quarter, I am sure... |
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house - I [missing text] , or even the remembrance, of serious matters. Ever yours Wilkie Collins Edmund Yates Esqr |
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Edmund Hodgson Yates (1831-1894) probably met WC in 1855 when they worked on The Lighthouse together. He was one of Dickens's 'young men' and wrote for Household Words and All The Year Round. Yates wrote a full obituary of Collins in Temple Bar August 1890. |
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NOTES
Although this is just a scrap it is the remains of one of only seven known letters from WC to Yates. The
watermark dates it no earlier than 1858 and probably no later than 1859.