Record ID:
287787
Accession number:
MA 3153.17
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.8 cm + envelope
Notes:
With postmark and stamp.
Written on mourning stationery.
Written from Hotel du Helder.
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:
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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