BIB_ID
287144
Accession number
MA 3151.48
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1864 Jan. 14.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 15.5 cm
Notes
A lower portion of the first page has been torn away. Originally, the first page would have been 20.5 cm. The torn portion is preserved with the rest of the letter.
Caroline's daughter Harriet is also known in Collins's correspondence as "Caroline Junior" or "Carry."
Part of a collection of 86 letters from Wilkie Collins to Charles Ward. Items in this collection are described in individual records (MA 3151.1-86).
Written from the Hotel des Iles Britanniques. Signed "Ever yours W.C."
Caroline's daughter Harriet is also known in Collins's correspondence as "Caroline Junior" or "Carry."
Part of a collection of 86 letters from Wilkie Collins to Charles Ward. Items in this collection are described in individual records (MA 3151.1-86).
Written from the Hotel des Iles Britanniques. Signed "Ever yours W.C."
Summary
Thanking Ward for the letter of credit and snuff, and discussing the confusing currency in Italy. Noting that Caroline [Graves] is feeling better, and that Caroline junior (Harriet Graves) "astonishes the Roman public by the essentially British plumpness of her cheeks and calves." Describing how Collins "encountered the Pope yesterday," mentioning that as the Pope was driven by in his coach he was "comforting himself with a pinch of snuff," and that this aroused in Collins a feeling "of sympathy with his holiness which no words can describe." Wishing Ward could be in Rome also, and expressing shock at the news of Thackeray's death.
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