Record ID:
287002
Accession number:
MA 3150.14
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description:
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 27.1 cm
Notes:
Written from Hotel des Tuileries, Rue de Rivoli.
With postmark.
The last page of the letter is torn.
Part of a collection of 117 letters from Wilkie Collins to his mother, Harriet Collins. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 3150.1-117).
Summary:
Detailing his plans for returning to England; mentioning a tour of churches and the many weddings he saw; noting that he is going to see Rachel in Corneille's Horace; saying he expects it to be boring and has "taken care to secure comfortable seats with Spring cushions, so as to go to sleep with dignity"; extolling the food in France and expressing his fear of being "fat as a pig" if he stays in France much longer.
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