BIB_ID
287389
Accession number
MA 3154.18
Creator
Collins, William, 1788-1847.
Display Date
1828 Aug. 24.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 80 letters from William Collins to his wife Harriet Geddes Collins and 35 letters primarily to William Collins from various friends and acquaintances. Items in this collection are described in individual records (MA 3154.1-115).
Signed "your faithful Husband / William Collins."
Watermark: HOLLAND.
With seal and postmarks, and addressed to "Mrs William Collins / Pond St Hampstead / near London."
Signed "your faithful Husband / William Collins."
Watermark: HOLLAND.
With seal and postmarks, and addressed to "Mrs William Collins / Pond St Hampstead / near London."
Summary
Describing his passage from Ostend and expressing unquantifiable love for his "darling wife." With a postscript describing the adoration of the Virgin in a Catholic church.
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