BIB_ID
287001
Accession number
MA 3150.13
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1844 Sept. 4.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 27.2 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
Describing his activities in France, including frequenting gardens, theatres, and cafés and visiting Versailles and the Louvre; giving his opinion of the art at Versailles and the Louvre; noting that Charles Ward "was most horrifically bedbugged" on their first night in Paris but "has changed his room and escaped further noctural visitation"; asking her to write to a Mr. Antrobus "to ascertain the utmost extension of leave of absence" he will allow Collins; commenting on a night at the Opera where he saw Othello; giving more details of their journey from Calais to Paris.
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