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.
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.
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