BIB_ID
287758
Accession number
MA 3153.5
Creator
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828-1873.
Display Date
[1859] July 29-30.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Dated "Friday" on p. 1 and "Saturday" on p. 2.
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).
Written on mourning stationery.
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).
Written on mourning stationery.
Summary
Expressing his concern about her health in the recent heat; noting that he "has been favoured with the fidgets occasionally to a wonderful extent"; asking about his brother, Wilkie Collins; mentioning an accident with a horse and a dog-cart; observing that there is a "great drought" in Kent; telling her he has finished a paper on the "expression of the eye."
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