With postmark and stamp.
Written from Rue de l'Arcade 11.
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).
Telling her they [Charles and Kate Dickens Collins] are thinking of going to Brussels because Paris does not agree with them; complaining that the air in Paris is bad because of a drainage system that requires carts to empty cesspools all night; asking if she can get information about lodgings in Brussels from Mr. Tom Wilkin; mentioning that he is working on a book about their journey, A cruise upon wheels; inquiring about her health; asking her to thank Wilkie Collins for his letter; expressing his "morbid hatred of the French nation"; saying that Katie would prefer that the box she sent home not be unpacked.