BIB_ID
286938
Accession number
MA 3150.3
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1839 Sept. 18.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 117 letters from Wilkie Collins to his mother, Harriet Collins. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 3150.1-117).
Probably part of a letter to his mother because it bears the identification "Sons letters."
Signed William Collins.
The letter opens with a quotation from Homer in Greek.
Written from 39 Highbury Place.
Probably part of a letter to his mother because it bears the identification "Sons letters."
Signed William Collins.
The letter opens with a quotation from Homer in Greek.
Written from 39 Highbury Place.
Summary
A school exercise offering evidence to support Homer's quotation that "the government of many is not good."
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