Autograph letter signed : Paris, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1845 Sept. 16.

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Autograph letter signed : Paris, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1845 Sept. 16.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434508610

Joking that he purchased an opera glass so he must go the opera, and he bought a box of soda powders so he must "deliver [him]self to Gastronomy to test their correcting powers ... on [his] digestory organization"; mentioning that he has seen William Harrison Ainsworth and S.A. Hart in Paris; speaking harshly of a painting exhibition he saw, noting that it is "worth a visit, as affording an example of a very rare human attainment -- the perfection of incapacity"; observing that painters and writers gain acclaim and money more easily in France than in England; mentioning the death of Mrs. Ward [Charles Ward's mother?].

1 item (3 p., with address) ; 27cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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