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.
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.
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