A Melancholy Relic.
A correspondent of the Hobarfc Mercury mentions a very curious discovery. Two years ago he attended the sale m London of an ex colonist's eTects. Amongst the articles were two pictures, which hang against the wall. The auctioneer, an illiterate man, said : " Here's a letter m a frame between these two pictures, which TJI throw m j it seems to com? from some * cove ' who don't expact to live Ion?, and writes m a dismal tone." The writer goes on to say ; " I bought these two pictures, and consequently became the possessor of this lachrymose epistie. On their reaching my place I took this letter from its frame and read it with some difficulty, owing to its having faded much from age.. What was my suprise to find that it was from the explorer, .W. J. Wills,: dated from Cooper's Creek, 27th June, 1861, and addressed to his father. It was a long and most interesting letter, giving an account of his movements, his. sufferings and ditiappoiutments, and stating his conv.ftv tion thxit he could only live four or five days longer, but saying that his spirits were excellent, and his religious views unchanged. It bore the stamp of a genuine document, and you can imagine 1 was very agreeably astonish id to have so strangely obtained it.?
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 190, 18 July 1883, Page 2
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221A Melancholy Relic. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 190, 18 July 1883, Page 2
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