BIB_ID
287578
Accession number
MA 3150.31
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1852 Sept. 1.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.3 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 Royal Hotel.
Written from the Royal Hotel.
Summary
Telling her that his sore throat is better but he has a head cold; informing her that "the Comedy has been brilliantly successful everywhere"; noting that "the kindness of the Miss Blandlings during [his] stay with them at Newcastle was beyond all acknowledgement"; saying that he is going to stay with [Charles] Dickens at Dover.
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