BIB_ID
287624
Accession number
MA 3150.45
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1855 Sept. 2.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 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, seal, and one-penny stamp.
Written from 3 Albion Villas.
With postmark, seal, and one-penny stamp.
Written from 3 Albion Villas.
Summary
Telling her he will be returning soon but leaving again for Brockley Hall with [Edward] Pigott; mentioning a dinner party attended by [William Makepeace] Thackeray and [Alexander William] Kinglake; noting that Mark Lemon just arrived with his daughter; discussing a manuscript his mother wrote about her life; deriding the "seaside women of England": "the older, uglier, and fatter they are the bigger hats they put on"; asking her to send him a check for £10.
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