Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
Lucy Perry Collins of Clay Banks, Michigan, wrote to her friend, Persis Blanchard of Cumberland, commenting on how much she missed her school friends in Maine.
Lucy (Lucinda Ellen) moved with her family to Michigan three years earlier and was now married. "Would that the days of childhood and youth have lasted longer, though I am happy as happy can be," she wrote.
Collins and her husband, a millwright, were living with the Perry family and considering when to set up housekeeping for themselves. Lucy's father, Oliver C. Perry, had just bought a 240-acre farm in Clay Banks, Oceana County, Michigan.
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About This Item
- Title: Letter to Persis Blanchard on youth, friends, Michigan, 1855
- Creator: Lucy E. Collins
- Creation Date: 1855-09-07
- Subject Date: 1855
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Locations:
- Clay Banks, MI
- Cumberland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 25.5 cm x 20 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 2239, Box 6/3
- Collection: Blanchard family papers
- Object Type: Text
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Blanchard, Persis De Forrest, 1836-1870--Correspondence
- Blanchard, Persis De Forrest, 1836-1870--Friends & associates
- Collins, Lucinda E.--Correspondence
- Letters
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