BIB_ID
287673
Accession number
MA 3150.76
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1863 Sept. 1.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 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 Fort Anne Hotel.
With postmark and stamps.
Written from Fort Anne Hotel.
Summary
Complaining of the difficulties in booking a room on the Isle of Man; giving an account of a terrible sea passage to the Isle of Man; mentioning the problems he encountered in visiting a specific area he wanted to see, but noting that the place was "made for [his] literary occult purposes" when he finally reached it.
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