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Autograph letter signed with initials : Menton, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1865 Feb. 12.

BIB_ID
287865
Accession number
MA 3153.40
Creator
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828-1873.
Display Date
1865 Feb. 12.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21.5 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 d'Angleterre.
Written on stationery with "Menton / Alpes Maritimes" embossed in the upper left corner.
Summary
Discussing where his mother is going to live; calling Menton a "barbarous place" where the people are "dirty, noisy, conceited extortionists"; noting that people are passing through on the way to "Carnival and Holy Week" in Rome; mentioning that he and Kate Dickens Collins are reading Wilkie Collins's Armadale.