BIB_ID
287003
Accession number
MA 3150.15
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1845 Sept. 9?].
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 26.6 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 letter is dated "Tuesday evening"; date is from The letters of Wilkie Collins, eds. Baker and Clarke.
With postmark and seal.
Written from Hotel des Tuileries, Rue de Rivoli.
The letter is dated "Tuesday evening"; date is from The letters of Wilkie Collins, eds. Baker and Clarke.
With postmark and seal.
Written from Hotel des Tuileries, Rue de Rivoli.
Summary
Reporting that he has arrived in Paris, but his baggage was lost en route; describing some of the people he met on the boat from England to Rouen; giving details of his sightseeing in Rouen; asking after his father and brother.
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