COLLINS, Wilkie, writer. ALS ("W:C") to his friend Nina Lehman, London, 8 December 1866. 3 pp., 8o, on thin blue paper, heavily water-stained. Wilkie writes about the failure of his play, The Frozen Deep: "...the enlightened British Public declares it to be 'slow'. There is'nt an atom of slang or vulgarity in the whole piece..." The letter also describes an encounter with a tomcat at Shelley's grave in Rome: "...rushed up at a gallop...and said in the language of cats: 'Shelley be hanged! Come and tickle me!'" Letters by Wilkie are relatively scarce.