BIB_ID
286989
Accession number
MA 3150.12
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1844 Aug. 28.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 27.1 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).
With postmark and seal.
Written from Hotel de Tours, Place de la Bourse.
With postmark and seal.
Written from Hotel de Tours, Place de la Bourse.
Summary
Telling her that he has arrived in Paris with his friend Charles Ward; noting that the "voyage was remarkably calm and the journey by Diligence favoured with the loveliest weather"; promising to write soon with "a more extended account of [their] non-adventures."
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