BIB_ID
287595
Accession number
MA 3150.36
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1853 July 29.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18 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 Chateau des Molineaux, Rue Beaurepaire.
Written from Chateau des Molineaux, Rue Beaurepaire.
Summary
Describing his passage to Boulogne by steamer; mentioning being greeted by Mr. and Mrs. [Charles] Dickens, Miss Hogarth, and Mr. and Mrs. [John] Leech; telling her about his accommodations in Boulogne; noting that they are all going on a trip to Amiens and Beauvais; discussing Dickens' Bleak House and the character of Sir Leicester Dedlock.
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