BIB_ID
287920
Accession number
MA 3153.51
Creator
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828-1873.
Display Date
[1850?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 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).
Possibly written in 1850 when Collins was painting in Oxfordshire.
The letter is dated "Monday."
Possibly written in 1850 when Collins was painting in Oxfordshire.
The letter is dated "Monday."
Summary
Telling her that he has a "faint tinge of colour ... in [his] face" now; reporting that he spends as much time as possible out of doors, "preparing for the campaign of work which must begin so soon"; asking if she has heard news of [Chauncy] Townshend; describing going to church.
Catalog link
Department