Record ID:
287636
Accession number:
MA 3150.49
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) : ill. ; 17.5 cm + envelope
Notes:
With postmark.
Includes a drawing on p. 4 of what he can remember of Sir Frederic Leighton's painting.
Written from No. 63 Avenue des Champs Elysées.
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:
Telling her that her last letter never arrived; discussing a new house the family has rented; noting that he plans to return in April but can stay with various friends until the new house is ready; lettering her know he received the parcels she sent with Charles Dickens; informing her that he met [Frederic] Leighton and saw his new painting.
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