BIB_ID
286940
Accession number
MA 3150.4
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1839 Oct. 12.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address.) ; 18.6 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).
Signed W. W. Collins.
With postmark and seal.
Written from 39 Highbury Place.
Signed W. W. Collins.
With postmark and seal.
Written from 39 Highbury Place.
Summary
Thanking his mother for a parcel containing cake and new trousers; noting that he was glad to hear such a good account of his father, William Collins; saying that a letter from his younger brother Charlie [Charles Allston Collins] "amused [him] very much, it looked exactly like the autograph of a great man!!!"
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