Autograph letter signed : Lerwick, Shetland, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1842 July 2.

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Autograph letter signed : Lerwick, Shetland, to his mother, Harriet Collins, 1842 July 2.

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Quoting Mr. Pickwick (from Charles Dickens' The Pickwick papers) and noting that the "principal features" of Shetland are "Dutchmen, Peat bogs, Ragged Ponies, Beggars, and Fine Scenery"; describing his excursions with his father in the Scottish countryside; noting that they visited a site Sir Walter Scott mentioned in The pirate; stating that "correct information is a quality undiscoverable in the common people here"; commenting on the local people's "extraordinary spirit of inquisitiveness"; sending love to his brother [Charles Allston Collins]. The incomplete letter from William Collins further describes their travels.

1 item (4 p.) ; 25.1 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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