BIB_ID
287002
Accession number
MA 3150.14
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1844 Sept. 21.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (2 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).
The last page of the letter is torn.
With postmark.
Written from Hotel des Tuileries, Rue de Rivoli.
The last page of the letter is torn.
With postmark.
Written from Hotel des Tuileries, Rue de Rivoli.
Summary
Detailing his plans for returning to England; mentioning a tour of churches and the many weddings he saw; noting that he is going to see Rachel in Corneille's Horace; saying he expects it to be boring and has "taken care to secure comfortable seats with Spring cushions, so as to go to sleep with dignity"; extolling the food in France and expressing his fear of being "fat as a pig" if he stays in France much longer.
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