BIB_ID
287567
Accession number
MA 3150.28
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1852 May 12.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 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).
Written from the "Hen and Chickens Hotel" with "This is the real name!" written below.
Written from the "Hen and Chickens Hotel" with "This is the real name!" written below.
Summary
Noting that the "Shrewsbury audience" for the play in which he is acting was "intelligent and appreciative"; describing a "grand champagne breakfast" given for the actors that made him feel like he "had been at a wedding"; telling her is will be going to Stratford upon Avon and Kenilworth and returning to London on Saturday.
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