Excerpt from Narrative of the Loss of the Ship Poland: Letter From Christopher Hughes to the Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll, an Offering to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

My Dear Ingersoll,

You have been to me - a "guide, philosopher and friend" from our Princeton College days, your very name has been a blessing to me! you will see. in the simple and touching Letter of my Daughter - narrating the circumstances of the awful accident to the American Packet Ship, "The Poland, " Captain Anthony, on her voyage from New York to Havre, in May, 1840, when the ship was struck by Lightning - that - under Providence - I owe the preservation of my Daughter, to an "excellent, good-hearted man - named Ingersoll - Captain of the Ship Clifton."

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