Early Years & Family > Paul Wilson
Photograph of Paul Wilson
Ca. 1940
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 150A
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1973
Frances Perkins
Thank you for the years of grace dear soul
Autograph manuscript, pen, signed, October 13, 1932
Frances Perkins Papers, Box 122
Written almost 19 years after their marriage in 1913, Perkins’s poem to Paul Wilson sums up their great love and her great sense of loss. His first breakdown had occurred in the spring of 1918. He lived mostly in institutions or boarding homes, suffering from manic depression and bipolar disorder, from early 1933 until his death in 1952.
Gift of Susanna Perkins Coggeshall, 1988