Autograph letter signed : Paris, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1858 Nov. 19.

Saying he should have written from Boulogne to inform her of his arrival in France, but he was too busy seeing the town and the people; describing the passage across the English Channel and telling her that he has discovered "a system for the avoidance of sickness in short voyages"; noting that his knowledge of French "for practical purposes" is "not what it might be"; mentioning that he would rather live in Paris than in London and asking her to advise William [Wilkie Collins] "against committing himself to a London lodging before he has tried Paris again."