Autograph letter signed : Genoa, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1853 Oct. 28.

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Autograph letter signed : Genoa, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1853 Oct. 28.

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Telling her his plans for traveling through Italy and returning to England in December; mentioning that Dickens' arrival at Lausanne "produced a prodigious sensation in the English colony" there; describing an unpleasant journey from Geneva to Chamounix and the "overwhelming vastness of the scenery of Switzerland"; noting that the valleys of Switzerland seem unhealthy and many people suffer from a "hideous deformity called the goitre"; giving details of their passage over the Simplon Pass and through Italy along the Lago Maggiore.

1 item (4 p.) ; 26.8 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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