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Autograph letter signed : Paris, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1845 Sept. 23-24.

BIB_ID
287530
Accession number
MA 3150.18
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1845 Sept. 23-24.
Credit line
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.
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."