BIB_ID
287848
Accession number
MA 3153.36
Creator
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828-1873.
Display Date
1864 Nov. 8.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.9 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 seal.
Written from Hotel de Bergues.
With postmark and seal.
Written from Hotel de Bergues.
Summary
Telling her they [Charles and Kate Dickens Collins] have arrived in Geneva but plan to leave as soon as possible because of the cold there; exhorting his mother to take care of her health; expressing shock and sorrow at [John] Leech's death; describing their journey through Strasbourg, Basle, Bern, and Lausanne, where they visited their friend [Chauncy] Townshend; mentioning that he saw the first number of Wilkie Collins's new book; discussing his health and asking his mother to write to him at Cannes next.
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