BIB_ID
287598
Accession number
MA 3150.37
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1853 Sept. 1.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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
Noting that many of the people in his traveling party have left; telling her about a grand dinner Dickens hosted; mentioning Miss [Georgina] Hogarth, Miss [Angela Georgina Burdett] Coutts, and Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth"; informing her of his plan to travel for Italy; referring to Hide and seek, the book he is writing.
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