BIB_ID
287684
Accession number
MA 3150.80
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1864 Jan. 8.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.8 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 on the "Feast of St. Collins."
Written from Hotel des Iles Britanniques on the "Feast of St. Collins."
Summary
Mentioning that he is now 40 and insisting that he does not feel old; reassuring her that he is not in need of money; discussing photographs of himself; describing the reaction in Rome to a snowfall that "actually remained unmelted on the roofs of the houses"; commenting on [William Makepeace] Thackeray's death; noting that his traveling servant has also died; describing his activities in Rome, including going to the opera to hear [Giuseppe] Verdi's music.
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