The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To WILKIE COLLINS,1 17 OCTOBER 1857

MS Private.

OFFICE OF HOUSEHOLD WORDS,

Saturday Seventeenth Octr. 1857

My Dear Wilkie

A note of mine yesterday2 crossed a note from you. Of course it did. Your luck—my luck. (I’ll begin to grumble). I will come up to you this afternoon at 4.

Ever Faithfully | CHARLES DICKENS

• 1. William Wilkie Collins (1824-89; Dictionary of National Biography), novelist. Prolific contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round: see Pilgrim Letters 6, p. 310n.
• 2. Clearly “the enclosed” CD asked Charles Collins, Wilkie’s brother, to forward the day before (Pilgrim Letters 8, p. 467).