BIB_ID
287682
Accession number
MA 3150.79
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1863 Dec. 4.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 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 Hotel des Iles Britanniques.
Written from Hotel des Iles Britanniques.
Summary
Telling her he is "better in Rome" and plans to stay there; noting that "ideas are coming to [him] thicker & thicker for a new book"; observing that "Rome is positively crammed with English." The letter mentions Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The rivals.
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