BIB_ID
287530
Accession number
MA 3150.18
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1845 Sept. 23-24.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 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
Telling her he will "give up the Belgium plan and come back the shortest way"; describing his encounter with an overly polite French kitchen maid; mocking the hotel staff's attempts to speak English; mentioning an exhibition of paintings and a visit to the morgue, where "a body of a young girl had just been fished out of the river."
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