BIB_ID
287867
Accession number
MA 3153.41
Creator
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828-1873.
Display Date
1865 June 13.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 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 stamp.
Written on Charles Dickens' stationery; "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent." is printed at the top.
With postmark and stamp.
Written on Charles Dickens' stationery; "Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent." is printed at the top.
Summary
Discussing the Charles Dickens' Swiss chalet at Gad's Hill; explaining that they are at Gad's Hill because Katie [Dickens Collins] wanted "ocular evidence" that Dickens was not hurt by a railway accident he was in; giving details of the [Staplehurst] railway accident; telling her they are coming to London soon.
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