Autograph Letter Signed ('Wm. Cairns.') to 'Mr. Logan'.

12mo, 2 pp. Bifolium with mourning border. 39 lines of text, 12 of which have been damaged, presumably on the removal of the item from an autograph album, which has resulted in a large hole to the upper half of the second leaf of the bifolium. Begins 'My Dear Mr. Logan, | I felt very tenderly moved for you last week by the affecting notice I read of your Dear Sweet Babe's being taken from you.' Attempts to give words of comfort, which ring oddly in modern ears: 'though "it is well" with the Child, yet doubtless even the brief stay with you had linked sweet and tender ties round your Spirits, which can neither be unwound, or snapt, without exquisite pain'. Concludes by exhorting Logan to 'rejoice that your own sweet flower shall bloom for ever in the Garden of the Lord: that your Dear Lamb is folded in the Arms of Him who said, "Let the little ones come unto me" -'. Concludes, somewhat insensitively: 'We are all well - My Brother & Sister join me in kind expression of Sympathy'. William and John Cairns, with their sister, moved into the Spence Street house in 1876.