To Edward William Bok, 19 February 1889

LS 19 February 1889 to Edward Bok, 179x113mm on headed laid paper, no watermark, handwritten probably by Harriet Bartley and signed by Wilkie Collins.

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins IV 362-363.

[monogram ranged left] [82, WIMPOLE STREET. W.] London 19th Feb. 1889 My dear Mr Bok The copies of "The Book Buyer"  which you have so kindly sent to me,  together with the impressions of the portrait  taken on specially fine paper, have reached  me when the kindness of my friends  is doubly valuable---that is to say,  when I am confined to my room by  illness. I can only congratulate you (and myself)  on the artistic manner in which the

engraving has been executed. It is  a delicate, refined, and life-like repro= =duction of an excellent photograph- and is the best portrait of myself, from  the graver's hand, that I have yet seen. Believe me Very truly yours ] Wilkie Collins [To Edward W. Bok Esq.] [in pencil HBS 30557 750 | (L - -)]

NOTES

In the hand probably of Caroline Graves's daughter Harriet Bartley and signed by Wilkie Collins by whom it was almost certainly dictated.