ALS to Miss Burt, an otherwise unidentified autograph hunter, dated [Saturday] 25 June 1887. 156x102mm, watermark RATICA. Fold repaired and some closed tears. Originally mounted with a portrait of Collins from Harper's Weekly.
The Public Face of Wilkie Collins IV 255
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90, GLOUCESTER PLACE, London 25th June 1887
Dear Miss Burt,
The kind manner in Believe me, dear Miss Burt, Vy truly yours Wilkie Collins
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NOTES
In an interview published shortly before this letter was written, Collins is quoted on Armadale as saying ‘It is by far the best thing I have ever written, and in my own opinion, no other book of mine can compare with it’. (
Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 5 March 1887, pp.355–6).Miss Burt is unidentified.