Autograph letter signed : [Folkestone], to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1855 Sept. 2.

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Autograph letter signed : [Folkestone], to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1855 Sept. 2.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436765479

Telling her he will be returning soon but leaving again for Brockley Hall with [Edward] Pigott; mentioning a dinner party attended by [William Makepeace] Thackeray and [Alexander William] Kinglake; noting that Mark Lemon just arrived with his daughter; discussing a manuscript his mother wrote about her life; deriding the "seaside women of England": "the older, uglier, and fatter they are the bigger hats they put on"; asking her to send him a check for £10.

1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm. + envelope.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7531349

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