BIB_ID
287265
Accession number
MA 3152.4
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1854 Sept. 7.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with postmarks addressed to Charles Collins, Esq. / 17. Hanover Terrace / Regents Park / London. Envelope may be from the personal stationery of Charles Dickens.
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).
Written from Vila du Camp de Droite / Boulogne sur Mer. Signed "Affectionately yours / W.C."
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).
Written from Vila du Camp de Droite / Boulogne sur Mer. Signed "Affectionately yours / W.C."
Summary
Asking Charley to send his brown coat to Boulogne via Mark Lemon. Describing the illumination of the house in which Dickens and Collins were staying with 114 candles, which sent "the landlord ... into hysterical French ecstasies."
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