BIB_ID
287812
Accession number
MA 3153.27
Creator
Perugini, Kate, 1839-1929.
Display Date
[1860] Dec. 20.
Credit line
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
Telling her they hope to leave for Brussels soon; noting that she would be "so glad to have someone to cook the dinners, it is so tiring and heating"; reporting that Charlie [Charles Allston Collins] is working on writing about their journey; asking about food prices in London; complaining about the cold weather; alluding to Wilkie Collins's success; insisting that Mrs. Collins should use all the rooms in her house instead of shutting up rooms to "keep [them] nice" for her son and daughter-in-law; expressing a "violent hatred" for Mr. Charles Ward because the style of his letters "aggravates [her] dreadfully."
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