BIB_ID
287787
Accession number
MA 3153.17
Creator
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828-1873.
Display Date
1860 Sept. 23.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.8 cm + envelope
Notes
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).
With postmark and stamp.
Written from Hotel du Helder.
Written on mourning stationery.
With postmark and stamp.
Written from Hotel du Helder.
Written on mourning stationery.
Summary
Detailing his difficulties in finding a new horse in Paris; saying he will probably stay in France to try out various horses because he does "not feel much inclined to return to England just now"; telling her that his plan of a carriage journey through France "seems just the one thing in the world worth doing"; noting that he "care[s] for nothing but the fresh air and nature, and like[s] man less every day"; mentioning his health and his wife's [Kate Dickens] health.
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