BIB_ID
287632
Accession number
MA 3150.47
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1856 Mar. 11.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.4 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
Explaining that he left his luggage "in the hands of the official person (in uniform) charged with the business of sending passengers' baggage after them" and received his bags the next day; asking her to send handkerchiefs and tobacco to Charles Dickens so he can bring them to Paris; telling her that he caught a chill but is feeling better; mentioning that he met the painter Ary Scheffer.
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