BIB_ID
287570
Accession number
MA 3150.30
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1852 Aug. 25].
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Date is from Baker and Clarke, The letters of Wilkie Collins.
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 Royal Hotel and dated "Wednesday morning."
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 Royal Hotel and dated "Wednesday morning."
Summary
Informing her that his throat is much better; noting that the audience at Nottingham was not good; telling her that "the parsons have been preaching against" his theater troupe: "one reverend gentleman ... solemnly adjured his flock ... not to compromise their salvation by entering our Theatre."
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