May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 327

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
COLLINS, WILKIE. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, fragment from the working draft of his play, The Moonstone, numbered page 17, with numerous holograph additions and deletions, over 30 lines from the second act involving Rachel, Miss Clack, and Godfrey. 1 page, 4to; minor loss of few letters at lower edge, holograph addition on slip of paper mounted to left middle, faint scattered staining. (MRS) Np, circa 1877

Additional Details

From his novel, The Moonstone, Collins adapted a play of the same title, privately printed in 1877.