BIB_ID
287605
Accession number
MA 3150.39
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1853 Oct. 28.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 26.8 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 Hotel de la Croix di Matte.
Written from Hotel de la Croix di Matte.
Summary
Telling her his plans for traveling through Italy and returning to England in December; mentioning that Dickens' arrival at Lausanne "produced a prodigious sensation in the English colony" there; describing an unpleasant journey from Geneva to Chamounix and the "overwhelming vastness of the scenery of Switzerland"; noting that the valleys of Switzerland seem unhealthy and many people suffer from a "hideous deformity called the goitre"; giving details of their passage over the Simplon Pass and through Italy along the Lago Maggiore.
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