BIB_ID
286971
Accession number
MA 3150.6
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1839 Nov. 22].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23.3 cm
Notes
Includes watermark: "Cansell 1839."
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 "Gugliegmo Collini."
With postmark and seal.
Written from "Piazza di Highbury" and dated "Vendredi nella matina"; actual date is from postmark.
Written in Italian.
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 "Gugliegmo Collini."
With postmark and seal.
Written from "Piazza di Highbury" and dated "Vendredi nella matina"; actual date is from postmark.
Written in Italian.
Summary
Explaining that he is writing in Italian to demonstrate that he has not forgotten the language; reporting that his eyes are fine; expressing his hope that his father, William Collins, is "very well recovered" and able to work.
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