BIB_ID
287807
Accession number
MA 3153.25
Creator
Perugini, Kate, 1839-1929.
Display Date
[1860] Dec. 3.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 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).
Signed "Katinka."
With postmark and stamp.
Written from Rue de l'Arcarde 11.
Signed "Katinka."
With postmark and stamp.
Written from Rue de l'Arcarde 11.
Summary
Describing the attempts she and "Charlie" [Charles Allston Collins] are making at "economising," including cleaning and cooking for themselves; giving an acount of how they spend their days in Paris; saying she is sorry Harriet Collins is feeling ill; discussing a cap Wilkie Collins purchased in Paris for Harriet Collins; mentioning that she has not said anything to her family about the "odd life" they are leading because she doesn't want them to "fancy we were really frightfully badly off"; asking Harriet Collins not to say anything to her mother about anything she has told her.
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