BIB_ID
286980
Accession number
MA 3150.9
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1842 July 2.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.1 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).
This letter also contains an incomplete autograph letter from William Collins to his wife (p. 4).
This letter also contains an incomplete autograph letter from William Collins to his wife (p. 4).
Summary
Quoting Mr. Pickwick (from Charles Dickens' The Pickwick papers) and noting that the "principal features" of Shetland are "Dutchmen, Peat bogs, Ragged Ponies, Beggars, and Fine Scenery"; describing his excursions with his father in the Scottish countryside; noting that they visited a site Sir Walter Scott mentioned in The pirate; stating that "correct information is a quality undiscoverable in the common people here"; commenting on the local people's "extraordinary spirit of inquisitiveness"; sending love to his brother [Charles Allston Collins]. The incomplete letter from William Collins further describes their travels.
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