Autograph letter signed : Paris, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1845 Oct. 6.

Record ID: 
287538
Accession number: 
MA 3150.20
Author: 
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description: 
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 26.5 cm
Notes: 

Written from Hotel des Tuileries, Rue de Rivoli.
With postmark and seal.
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).

Summary: 

Thanking her for sending him more money; noting that he went to Versailles to see Horace Vernet's painting, "The taking of Smalah"; giving details of his planned return trip to England; discussing his father's health.