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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, 1856 [i.e. 1865] Oct. 12-13.

BIB_ID
287886
Accession number
MA 3153.45
Creator
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828-1873.
Display Date
1856 [i.e. 1865] Oct. 12-13.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21 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 from Hotel du Pavillon Imperial.
Summary
Telling her that they [Charles and Kate Dickens Collins] plan to return to London via Gad's Hill; noting that he is writing something for the Christmas number [of All the year round]; hoping that Wilkie Collins [who suffered from gout] will "come through his visitings unscathed," but doubting this is possible since "at the Lehmanns and at Gad's Hill there is eating and drinking on an alarming scale"; mentioning a speech by Dr. [Edward] Pusey and the death of [Charles] Richardson.