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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Paris, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1845 Sept. 13.

BIB_ID
287005
Accession number
MA 3150.16
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1845 Sept. 13.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 26.5 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 des Tuileries, Rue de Rivoli.
Summary
Reporting that he managed to recover his lost baggage; commenting on how much he enjoyed Molière's Le medicin malgré lui; noting various British acquaintances he has seen in Paris; telling her about his new pair of boots in "the newest Parisian fashion"; describing a play called the Whirlwind that he saw in Rouen; mentioning a possible trip to Nice and asking whether she could send him £100 "upon the strength of [his] M.S. and Chapman and Hall"; encouraging his family to come to France.