Marion about to post a letter to her London solicitor" — John McLenan's headnote vignette for the fifteenth weekly number of Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" in Harper's Weekly (3 March 1860) (original) (raw)

Marion about to post a letter to her London solicitor.

John McLenan

3 March 1860

11.3 cm high by 5.6 cm wide (4 &frac;38 by 2 ⅛ inches), framed, p. 133; p. 106 in the 1861 volume edition.

Headnote vignette for the fourteenth part of Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel (1860).

After Glyde's insulting conduct over Laura's signing the parchment, Marian is determined to receive legal advice about how such a document might compromise Laura's estate. Reply by regular post simply will not be fast enough since Glyde will return from his mysterious journey tomorrow. She must have a special messenger from Gilmour's associate in London by the next afternoon.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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