letter to Belle about coming to Manquin for Ralph's birth
#208 Jan 19th (1907)
Dear Belle,
Enclosed please find two small pieces of linen all I could find. You might need it before I could get there. Forgot to say in my last letter that I…
written with left hand
Saturday
Dear Martha or Mother??
Been waiting for pa to visit, but he seems to be busy all the time. My thumb was working Monday & until 3 next day, but....
#212 Elizabeth MacHatton, daughter of Joseph Alexander and Lucretia Anne (Maxwell) MacHatton. The MacHattons, a Scotch family whose know lineage dates back t the early fourteenth century, came to America long before the Revolutionary War. The first…
#214 Family Record of Births, Marriages, Deaths
John Collins
Isabella Currie Collins
Nancy Collins
James Adams Collins
Maria Elenor Collins
Elizabeth Collins MacHatton
Margaret Collins Bradford (Bradfute??)
Samuel Walter Collins
George…
#215 George Harper - to Isabella Currie (Collins) 04.19.1825
Letter from George Harper to his Cousin Isabella Currie (Collins) as he must have been in a Presbyterian seminary ... very lengthy letter - hard to read some of the writing.
#216 April 4, 2007
Dear Shirley,
I am trying to clean out my boxes of files and keepsakes, and it occurred to me that you might like to have these letters of Grandpa Reid's. Mom saved them;
#217 State of California, Department of Public Health
J E Collins
Male
49 yrs 3 months 22 days
Married - wife just listed as Mrs. J E Collins
Occupation: Bookkeeper
Father: George Collins - born in Ohio
Mother Elizabeth Collins - born in…
#218 8shares of First National Bank of Bloomington Stock certificate to Isabella Collins 02.18.1875 and a check from Isabella to S W Collins 03.04.1875 for $60
#219 Iberia O. Nov. 17, 1871
Mr. S. W. Collins
Dear Sir
As this is Friday afternoon and I am out of employment I thought I had better spend the time in writing to a friend...
W W Collins
Real Estate, Insurance and Loans
Laurel, Nebraska
Dear Sister Belle Oct. 9, 1939
Just a few for it is very hard for me. I have to do it with my left had only I had a stroke the last of March but on the left side and…
Philadelphia, PA 9/25/07
Mrs Elizabeth MacHatton
My dear Mother,
I must confess to having a sense of shame in not writing to you before this to express my sympathy with you in the loss of Father MacHatton....
S W Collins, Wholesale & Retail Grocer, Bloomington, Indiana Sept. 27, 1907
Dear Sister,
Your letter recd. By some means that letter was lost - but I remember the contents. I will inclose check for $300.00 as you request. I suppose...
Laurel Nebraska, Oct 2, 1907
Mrs. E MacHatton
Chicago Lawn
Dear Mother:
Your letter bringing the new of Pa's death received the 30th. I had just returned from Oklahoma that day....
Sun=Set Fruit Exchange
Member of Southern California Fruit Exchange
Orange, Cal. 9/26/1907
My Very Dear Mother:- I am greatly ashamed of myself that I have not written to you since I got your letter telling me that Father was so dangerously sick,…