BIB_ID
287642
Accession number
MA 3150.52
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1856 Sept. 1].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.1 cm
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).
Written from Villa des Moulineaux.
Written from Villa des Moulineaux.
Summary
Reporting that Dickens' children were sent back to London after an epidemic of "malignant sore throat" in Boulogne; informing her that Gilbert à Beckett died of brain fever; explaining that Dickens is giving up his house in Boulogne a month ahead of time; giving her possible dates for his return to London.
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