BIB_ID
287544
Accession number
MA 3150.22
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1846 Aug. 6.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 27.2 cm
Notes
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).
With postmark and seal.
Written from Hotel de Flanders.
With postmark and seal.
Written from Hotel de Flanders.
Summary
Noting that he and Charles Ward found Antwerp dull and decided to go to Brussels instead; telling her that he will be returning to London with Charles Ward next week; expressing admiration for paintings by [Peter Paul] Rubens he saw in Antwerp; describing a procession to honor "a new relic box" in Antwerp; making some observations about Brussels.
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