BIB_ID
287798
Accession number
MA 3153.19
Creator
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828-1873.
Display Date
1860 Oct. 3-4.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.6 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 de Loudres.
With postmark and stamp.
Written from Hotel de Loudres.
Summary
Telling her they [Charles and his wife, Kate Dickens Collins] have arrived in Fontainebleau and are once more traveling by carriole because he "succeeded in getting another horse"; describing how he purchased the horse; mentioning Henry Bullar; raving about how "delightful" the journey has been; giving her their intended route and asking her to send a letter to Dijon.
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