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William Collson Mourning Picture
Collection — Box: 1, Item: 1
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1996.44
Scope and Contents
Mourning picture, ca. 1821, 14 1/2 x 17 5/8 in, done in memory of William Collson (1779-1820). The picture is a watercolor executed by Mary D. Collson and depicts a woman weeping beside the grave of William Collson with a willow tree in the background.
William Collson of Massachusetts was born in 1779 and died in 1820. He was the son of William Collson, Sr. (d. 1827) and Sarah (Hancock) Collson (1740-1834).
Dates:
circa 1820
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Samuel Stuart Griffin Letters to James Lewis Corbin Griffin
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.286
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of seven letters written by William & Mary alumnus, Samuel Stuart Griffin of Williamsburg, to his son, James Lewis Corbin Griffin. In the first letter, dated May 7, 1834, Griffin acknowledges his son's recent change of plans, wherein his son now has a teaching position and is living in a public house. Griffin expresses concern over the kinds of individuals his son is likely to meet at the public house and how they may be negative influences on him....
Dates:
1834-1835, 1857-1860
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center