Record ID:
287753
Accession number:
MA 3153.3
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 21.3 cm + envelope
Notes:
With postmark.
Written from 12 Rue de Trévise.
Part of a collection of 52 letters from Charles Allston Collins to his mother, Harriet Collins. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 3153.1-52).
Summary:
Telling her that he will probably quit Paris and return to England in a week; complaining about the street noise at his current lodgings; criticizing France for its inability to produce gentlemen; noting that the "wealth which appears universal" in Paris astonishes him; commenting on the lack of ventilation in public places; describing going to the opera, which had "such ugly actresses that it was painful to see them"; asking her to send him £5.
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