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Autograph letter signed : Brussels, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1846 Aug. 6.

BIB_ID
287544
Accession number
MA 3150.22
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1846 Aug. 6.
Credit line
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.
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.