To Miss Burt, 25 June 1887

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

90, GLOUCESTER PLACE,
PORTMAN SQUARE. W.
London
25^th June 1887

Dear Miss Burt,
I thank you very sincerely
for your friendly letter.

The kind manner in
which you write of “Armadale”
cheers and encourages me. To
you I may make the confession
that I have always consi-
-dered this novel to be the
best that I have written.

Believe me, dear Miss Burt,

Vy truly yours

Wilkie Collins

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.