Collins papers, 1856-1859.

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Collins papers, 1856-1859.

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The Mary Jane Collins Papers consist of correspondence, a notebook, a memorial sermon, a photograph and a portrait. Most of this material relates to her years as a student at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1856-1858. In four letters to her parents, 1857-1858, she describes her clothing, expenses, and study of music, which included piano lessons. She also describes her poor health, including throat ailments, neuralgia and problems with her teeth, and asks for food from home. The notebook dates from 1857-1858 and includes original poetry by Mount Holyoke Female Seminary students that were part of writings at the school known as "Seminary Literature." The notebook includes poetry about a child of Paul Chadbourne, a visiting lecturer at Mount Holyoke. The memorial sermon by the Reverend George Oviatt, delivered on September 18, 1859 and published in 1860, describes Collin's childhood, her personality, her religious faith, her studies at Mount Holyoke, and her declining health and death. The collection also includes a photograph of Collins and an oil-on-paperboard color portrait of her by an unidentified artist. Collins, Mary Jane, 1840-1859; student. Attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1856-1858.

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Collins, Mary Jane, 1840-1859

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Mary Jane Collins was born on February 16, 1840 in Somers, Connecticut to Noah Chapin Collins and Elvira Billings Collins. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from 1856-1858, but suspended her studies when she contracted typhoid fever in the summer of 1857. She developed "lung fever" (probably tuberculosis) in January 1859 and died on September 18, 1859 at the age of nineteen in Somers, Connecticut. From the guide to the Collins papers MS 0780., 1856-1859., (Mount Holyoke Coll...