Autograph letter signed ('CD') to Wilkie Collins ('Dear Wilkie'), reading "Russell is just going to India, and Delane and he are coming to dine with me...Will you come? Very quiet and no party", one page, integral blank, mailing folds, some ink bleeding, 8vo, Tavistock House, 16 December 1857. With original mailing envelope addressed in Dickens's hand (2) RARE LETTER FROM CHARLES DICKENS TO FRIEND AND FELLOW NOVELIST WILKIE COLLINS. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins met for the first time in March 1851, when the former was already an acclaimed novelist. They were introduced by mutual friend Augustus Egg, who recruited Collins to Dickens's amateur theatrical company. Collins and Dickens established a friendship that lasted until Dickens's death in 1879. The guests mentioned by Dickens have to be identified with William Howard Russell and John Thadeus Delane. The former was a journalist and war-correspondent for The Times. He achieved notoriety for reporting the Crimean War. He left for India in 1857 in order to cover the Indian Mutinity, which had begun in May with the rising at Meerut and the seizure of Delhi. John Thadeus Delane was editor of The Times from 1841 to 1877 and a close friend to Dickens.
Autograph letter signed ('CD') to Wilkie Collins ('Dear Wilkie'), reading "Russell is just going to India, and Delane and he are coming to dine with me...Will you come? Very quiet and no party", one page, integral blank, mailing folds, some ink bleeding, 8vo, Tavistock House, 16 December 1857. With original mailing envelope addressed in Dickens's hand (2) RARE LETTER FROM CHARLES DICKENS TO FRIEND AND FELLOW NOVELIST WILKIE COLLINS. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins met for the first time in March 1851, when the former was already an acclaimed novelist. They were introduced by mutual friend Augustus Egg, who recruited Collins to Dickens's amateur theatrical company. Collins and Dickens established a friendship that lasted until Dickens's death in 1879. The guests mentioned by Dickens have to be identified with William Howard Russell and John Thadeus Delane. The former was a journalist and war-correspondent for The Times. He achieved notoriety for reporting the Crimean War. He left for India in 1857 in order to cover the Indian Mutinity, which had begun in May with the rising at Meerut and the seizure of Delhi. John Thadeus Delane was editor of The Times from 1841 to 1877 and a close friend to Dickens.
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