BIB_ID
287711
Accession number
MA 3150.100
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
[1867] Mar. 11.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
Notes
A note at the top of p. 1 reads: "I enclose a newspaper criticism of the performance of 'Armadale' at New York" (newspaper clipping not in this collection).
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 stamp; year of date from postmark.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, N.W.; also dated "Monday."
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 stamp; year of date from postmark.
Written from 9 Melcombe Place, N.W.; also dated "Monday."
Summary
Reporting that he is back in London; noting that he accomplished all he hoped to in Paris on the play version of Armadale; telling her he was introduced to "some of the great French authors"; informing her that he bought her two pairs of boots.
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