BIB_ID
287592
Accession number
MA 3150.35
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1853 July 7].
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 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, 10 minutes to 9."
With postmark and seal; date is from postmark.
The letter is dated "Thursday morning, 10 minutes to 9."
With postmark and seal; date is from postmark.
Summary
Stressing that he has "begun the great reformation" and is up and waiting for the breakfast bell before 9 o'clock; describing his accommodations at the home of friends named Langton; noting that he is no longer drinking beer and "stop[s] short at [his] three glasses of wine.
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