Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : Boulogne sur Mer, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1865 Sept. 29.

BIB_ID
287880
Accession number
MA 3153.44
Creator
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828-1873.
Display Date
1865 Sept. 29.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.8 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 du Pavillon Imperial.
Summary
Telling her they [Charles and Kate Dickens Collins] like their hotel in Boulogne; saying they are planning to return to England instead of "travelling about this season"; mentioning that "poor Mrs. Linnell" [the wife of John Linnell] is dead; noting that Wilkie Collins is going to stay with Charles Dickens; discussing his story that was just published.