BIB_ID
287259
Accession number
MA 3152.2
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1853 Nov. 13.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 26.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 10 letters primarily between Wilkie Collins and his brother Charles Allston Collins. Items in this collection are described in individual records (MA 3152.1-10).
Probably written from the Hotel des Iles Britanniques. Signed "Yours ever affectionately / WWC."
William Iggulden, banker the Collins family had known while living in Italy in 1838.--Cf. Baker and Clarke, p. 116, n. 3.
Probably written from the Hotel des Iles Britanniques. Signed "Yours ever affectionately / WWC."
William Iggulden, banker the Collins family had known while living in Italy in 1838.--Cf. Baker and Clarke, p. 116, n. 3.
Summary
Describing remembrances of their childhood in Rome, noting that, unlike the rest of Italy, the city is unchanged. Describing his visit to Naples, and mentioning Dickens, Sir Emmerson [sic] Tennent and his family, Egg, Layard, and the Iggulden. Mentioning an incident of making eye contact with the Pope, and discussing his plans to travel to Turin by way of Venice and Verona, expecting to return to London by the 13th or 14th of December. Sending kind regards to friends at home.
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