BIB_ID
287491
Accession number
MA 3154.50
Creator
Collins, William, 1788-1847.
Display Date
Saturday [1841 July 24].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Date from postmark.
Envelope with seal, postmarks, and fragment of a postage stamp, and addressed to "Mrs Collins / at Mrs C Otter's / Belle vue house / South sea / Portsmouth."
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).
Written from 85 Oxford Terrace. Signed "Ever yours / W. Collins."
Envelope with seal, postmarks, and fragment of a postage stamp, and addressed to "Mrs Collins / at Mrs C Otter's / Belle vue house / South sea / Portsmouth."
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).
Written from 85 Oxford Terrace. Signed "Ever yours / W. Collins."
Summary
Thanking his "dear love" for a letter, describing a visit to Miss Wilkie, and mentioning a letter from an old friend about "poor dear [Sir David] Wilkie." Noting that "Willy has been a very good boy," and that he has a title for a new picture.
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