BIB_ID
287601
Accession number
MA 3150.38
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1853 Oct. 16.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21.2 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).
With postmark and seal.
With postmark and seal.
Summary
Announcing the arrival of his traveling party in Lausanne; describing his trip to Lausanne, including stops in Paris and Strasbourg; and giving details of the scenery in Switzerland. The letter mentions Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Charles Dickens, and Augustus Egg.
Catalog link
Department