BIB_ID
287891
Accession number
MA 3153.46
Creator
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828-1873.
Display Date
1865 Oct. 28.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 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 Langham Hotel.
With postmark and stamp.
Written from Langham Hotel.
Summary
Describing the new Langham Hotel, which he finds "comfortable" and "beautifully furnished" but "too large for the service to be well conducted"; noting that they [Charles and Kate Dickens Collins] are moving into an apartment on South Audley Street; mentioning that they dined with the Thackerays; telling her he submitted two stories for the Christmas number of All the year round.
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