BIB_ID
287556
Accession number
MA 3150.24
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1847 Aug.?].
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 26.5 cm
Notes
Dated "Monday afternoon."
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.
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 his mother that he is in Paris for "three or four days" because he and Charles Ward "find provincial cities insupportably oppressive to [their] mercurial characters"; asking his mother to send him £5: "I ask for the five pound note because I shall want both boots and glasses when I come back, and can (if I have some extra money) get them cheaper and better here than London."
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