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Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1824-01-08 - 1889-09-23

Biography

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), British author

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

COLLINS, WILKIE, 1824-1889

 Sub-Series
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC

Correspondence, 1873 April 3-1884 November 27

 Part of Collection — Box 265: [Barcode: 39002140920472], Folder: 14
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Three autograph manuscript letters, signed, addressed to S. A. Hart, H. O. Moore, and Messrs. Perry Mason & Co. Letters discuss an unidentified friend who is sick and Collins’s literary management.

Dates: 1873 April 3-1884 November 27

Correspondence, 1869 May 15-1888 December 29

 Part of Collection — Box 265: [Barcode: 39002140920472], Folder: 11
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Three autograph manuscript letters, signed, addressed to William Ralston Shedden Ralston, Mr. Bainton, and John Forester. Collins discusses books and authors.

Dates: 1869 May 15-1888 December 29

Envelope : 82 Wimpole Street, London, to George Bainton, Coventry, 1888 December 29

 Part of Collection — Box 271: [Barcode: 39002140921256], Folder: 9
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Fragment of an envelope containing an autograph manuscript address, signed.

Dates: 1888 December 29

Letter : 90, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W., London, to an unidentified recipient, 1886 June 24

 Part of Collection — Box 265: [Barcode: 39002140920472], Folder: 15
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Autograph manuscript letter, signed, saying that he has sent the manuscript for his novel The Two Destinies to the Buffalo Library. Accompanied by a printed portrait of Collins.

Dates: 1886 June 24

Letter : 90, Gloucester Place, Portman Square. W., London, to G. Holsworth, 1874 November 11

 Part of Collection — Box 271: [Barcode: 39002140921256], Folder: 8
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Autograph manuscript letter, signed, from Collins acknowledging that he received payment for the right to publish his short story “Fatal Fortune” in the periodical All the Year Round.

Dates: 1874 November 11

Letter : 90, Gloucester Place, Portman Square. W., London, to William A. Seaver, 1880 May 20

 Part of Collection — Box 265: [Barcode: 39002140920472], Folder: 12
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Autograph manuscript letter, signed, welcoming Seaver to London and inviting him to dinner.

Dates: 1880 May 20

Letter and clippings, 1877

 Part of Collection — Box 45: [Barcode: 39002137170545], Folder: GROUP 904, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS to William Winter, also annotated by Winter, returning Winter's reviews of actress Anna Dickinson, including one from the New York Daily Tribune.

Dates: 1877

Letter : London, to Charles Dickens, 1864 September 8

 Part of Collection — Box 265: [Barcode: 39002140920472], Folder: 16
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Autograph manuscript letter, signed, asking Dickens if he has a bedroom available on Saturday that he can work in. Collins says that he needs the space because he will be moving in a month.

Dates: 1864 September 8

Letters : 90, Gloucester Place, Portman Square. W., London, to William A. Seaver, 1875 September 29, 1880 October 26

 Part of Collection — Box 271: [Barcode: 39002140921256], Folder: 10
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Two autograph manuscript letters, signed, discussing the possibility of a trip to New York and an account Collins has in America.

Dates: 1875 September 29, 1880 October 26

Poems, undated

 Part of Collection — Box 265: [Barcode: 39002140920472], Folder: 13
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Two poems written by Wilkie Collins. Includes a manuscript poem titled “The Marriage of Canan”; and a galley proof with manuscript corrections and annotations for a poem titled “The Devil’s Spectacles”.

Dates: undated

Charles Reade collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 124
Abstract:

Letters by Charles Reade to various parties, including Wilkie Collins, Harper & Brothers, and Jenny Lind, with one letter to Reade from James Ripley Osgood. Manuscripts of "Christie Johnstone," "An Egoist," "A Hero and a Martyr," and "Singleheart and double-face."

Dates: 1863-1874