BIB_ID
287652
Accession number
MA 3150.60
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1861 July 11.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 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 the Albion Hotel.
Written from the Albion Hotel.
Summary
Telling her that he will be at Broadstairs for a week; reporting that he tried the outline of his new story upon Dickens, and "he was immensely struck by it"; hoping that his mother is not feeling lonely; describing the people at "this British watering-place" [Broadstairs]; pondering where he should "go for [his] autumn work."
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