[Postmark LONDON . W D7 JU 23 79]
Mr C. Thomas
Messrs Robson & Sons
Printers
20. Pancras Road
N.W.
Wilkie Collins
LONDON.N.W.
A.M.
JU23
79]
ALS envelope to C Thomas, Messrs Robson and Sons. 99x120mm with prepaid 1 penny oval stamp top right, postmarked [Monday] 23 June 1879 signed bottom left. See earlier letter for notes.
The Public Face of Wilkie Collins III 250.
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NOTES
Wilkie sent numerous communications to these printers who were at the time
working on The Fallen Leaves. This envelope may have been the one
enclosing a letter, now at Princeton, "...I have one last trifling
correction to make...Revise of 30th Portion Slip 120..." The letter is
dated 21 June, a Saturday, and it is conceivable that this letter was posted too
late for the Saturday collection, remained in the box on Sunday and was picked
up early on Monday 23 June and postmarked that date at both ends of its journey.
Collins used these prepaid envelopes right up to the end of his life in 1889.