To Anne Benson Procter, 11 April 1876

	90, Gloucester Place, Portman Square. W. 11th April 1876 My dear Mrs Procter, I have had the gout again in the eye – and I am only allowed to write you two or three lines, now that   I am getting better. I rejoice to hear that you have found the right place at last – and in such a good situation. When you
	are settled I shall hope   to present myself without a black patch over my eye. The gout stopped “The Two Destinies” at half a number – which  will appear next month. I am glad you like it.   yours afftly W.C.

Wilkie refers to what is presumably her new home in the recently built Queen Anne’s Mansions in Petty France, Westminster, where the 1881 Census records her as living with her daughter Edith. Her husband Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874) had died eighteen months earlier.

The Two Destinies was serialised in Temple Bar from January to September 1876. The first four parts led each issue and were 23, 23, 25 and 26 pages long. The May part was just 13 pages long and the following parts were 17, 17, 20, and 25 pages long. In effect, Wilkie spread the remainder over seven months rather than six.