BIB_ID
287611
Accession number
MA 3150.40
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1853 Nov. 25.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 26.9 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 a note on p. 4 in a different hand that is initialed "C.C." [Charles Allston Collins?] and reads, "My mother wants a new cheque book if you please."
With postmark and seal.
With a note on p. 4 in a different hand that is initialed "C.C." [Charles Allston Collins?] and reads, "My mother wants a new cheque book if you please."
With postmark and seal.
Summary
Telling her of his plan to return to London on December 12 or 13; describing his trip from Florence to Venice; reminding her of paintings they saw in Venice 15 years before; discussing Tintoretto's Paradise in the Ducal Palace; mentioning their daily activities in Venice, including going to hear Verdi's "Nabuc."
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