Excerpt from Wilkie Collins: A Biography When the elder Collins died in 1812 he was heavily in debt. His son, now aged 23, was fortunate in being able to borrow from a patron enough money to meet the day-to-day household expenses. All the family's possessions had to be sold for the benefit of creditors, the furniture, the stock of pictures - including several by the younger William Collins which realised ???57 - even the dead man's spectacles and snuff-box. A friend who called at their house in Great Port land Street on ...
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Excerpt from Wilkie Collins: A Biography When the elder Collins died in 1812 he was heavily in debt. His son, now aged 23, was fortunate in being able to borrow from a patron enough money to meet the day-to-day household expenses. All the family's possessions had to be sold for the benefit of creditors, the furniture, the stock of pictures - including several by the younger William Collins which realised ???57 - even the dead man's spectacles and snuff-box. A friend who called at their house in Great Port land Street on the evening of the sale found the family eat ing their scanty meal off an old box, the nearest thing to a table they possessed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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