WILKIE COLLINS IN HARLEY PLACE
Marylebone Road showing Marylebone church where Collins was christened.
Harley Place was about 400 yards along on the right.
Collins moved to 2 Harley Place with his mother and brother in June 1856. It was situated on New Road which was renamed the following year. The address then became 11 Harley Place, Marylebone Road where he lived until 1858.
On 5 June 1856, Collins wrote to Chauncy Hare Townshend:
At
the pleasant dinner of Tuesday Dickens told me that you were desirous of knowing
my brother's address. It is "17
Whilst in Harley Place Collins wrote The Dead Secret and The Frozen Deep.
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| 2 Harley Place, New Road
Monday morning, June 8th |
Collins confuses his new
address and writes:
11 Marylebone Road instead of Harley Place. |
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