BIB_ID
287627
Accession number
MA 3150.46
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1856 Feb. 28.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.3 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.
Written from No. 63 Avenue des Champs Elysées.
With postmark and seal.
Written from No. 63 Avenue des Champs Elysées.
Summary
Describing "the quaintest and prettiest bachelor lodging that ever was built," his current abode in Paris; complaining about a slow horse on his trip to the train station in London; noting that he was met by Dickens' servant in Paris. The letter also mentions Charles Ward and the publication of Collins' "Rogue's Life" in Household Words.
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