BIB_ID
287850
Accession number
MA 3153.37
Creator
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828-1873.
Display Date
1864 Nov. 14 and 16.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.5 cm
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).
Written from Hotel Chauvain.
Written from Hotel Chauvain.
Summary
Telling her that they [Charles and Kate Dickens Collins] have already left Cannes because they did not like it; reporting that "the Continent is fast becoming dearer than England"; giving details of their trip from Geneva to Nice; mentioning that he received a letter from Miss [Anne] Thackeray; complaining about being unable to find reasonable lodgings in Nice and having to pay too much at the hotel.
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