Autograph letter signed : Paris, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1855 Feb. 14.

Record ID: 
287618
Accession number: 
MA 3150.43
Author: 
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description: 
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes: 

Written from the Hotel Meurice.
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).

Summary: 

Describing his voyage from England to Paris; giving details of his accommodations in Paris; noting that there are more English signs in windows and more people trying to speak English than before the Alliance; mentioning a building going up for "Exhibition time."