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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1863 Aug. 4.

BIB_ID
287672
Accession number
MA 3150.75
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1863 Aug. 4.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 18.2 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 stamps.
Written from 12 Harley Street, W[estminster].
Summary
Lamenting that he had to cut short his cruise because his "nervous pains and susceptibilities to changes in the temperature increased as soon as [he left] the shore"; telling her that he intends to go to Naples and perhaps Sicily for the winter; mentioning a trip to the Isle of Man "to look at certain localities which [he] may want to turn to literary account."