(seq. 1)

L. Collins 28. May 1815
announcing the death
of D. Muhlenberg

Paid
P 30
MY 3 1/2
Stephen Elliott Esq {Esquire}
Charleston
S. Carolina

Stephen Elliott, Esq {Esquire} Philada May 28. 1815

Dear Sir,

I feel incumbent on me
the melancholy task of announcing to you,
that your amiable & valued friend
Muhlenberg is no more. As we both
take pleasure in Botany, and both occa-
sinally drew from his fountain; know-
ing too, how much he prized your cor-
-respondence, the present letter seemed
to be a sort of duty —

On the morning of the 23rd
inst. he was affected with symptoms of pa-
ralysis, which soon disappeard, leaving an
unimpaired intellect, but great physical
debility; thus he remained till evening when
the paroxysm was repeated, which in
a little while terminated his valuble life.
To you who knew him eulogy were
superfluous.

Suffer me to tender, late
as it is, my thanks for your address to
the Lit & Philosop. Society over which
you preside which was [per?] [by?] me