BIB_ID
287584
Accession number
MA 3150.33
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1852 Sept. 23].
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
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).
The letter is dated "Thursday morning."
With postmark and seal; date is from postmark.
Written from 10, Camden Crescent.
The letter is dated "Thursday morning."
With postmark and seal; date is from postmark.
Written from 10, Camden Crescent.
Summary
Informing his mother that he will return next Saturday; noting that he has been suffering from an ear-ache and face-ache; telling her that she "will have a glorious number of Bleak House" with "a wonderful description of a death -- terribly true and genuinely pathetic."
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