Mrs. Henry Powell Bartley

Permit me to add your name to my name, in publishing this novel. The pen which has written my books cannot be more agreeably employed than in acknowledging what I owe to the pen which has skillfully and patiently helped me, by copying my manuscripts for the printer.

Wilkie Collins

Wimpole Street, 6th December, 1888.

The Legacy of Cain

First Period: 1858–1859. EVENTS IN THE PRISON, RELATED BY THE GOVERNOR.