Allen-Holmes-Smith Photographs and other materials
Description: Letter from Board of Selectman petitioning for an extention of state highway ending at Trenton to go through Somesville and Southwest ending at the lighthouse in Bass Harbor.
Description: Letter from Marie Nolf (vice president of the MDI Historical Society) to Representative-elect John Baldacci in support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Undated.
Description: Letter from Marie Nolf (vice president of the MDI Historical Society) to Representative-elect James Longley in support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Undated.
Description: Letter from Marie Nolf (vice president of the MDI Historical Society) to Senator William Cohen in support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Undated.
Description: Letter regarding Samuel Hadlock .M? 10.1768 "His farm at Gloucester, still known as Hadlock Place. Rev John Cleveland, minister at Chebacco, now Essex MA, made a list of houses then during the Revolution in which the house of Samuel Hadlock is mentioned. Discusses that he probably was in the revolutionary war Lists children wife Mary Andrews. Eldest chilld, Mary married John Manchester Not signed but evidently written by Mary Carroll
Description: Two letters, undated, one unsigned, the other signed by your daughter, E. J. (initials?) Newman. Spelling is better than that of Charlotte's letter 008.075.11 but handwriting is similar to Charlotte' s and both use a similar color fountain pen and paper Undated from East Eden Maine to Mary Newman, from East Eden Maine. "want you to come home for I shall go away as soon as Sargent gets back this trip & we are looking for him every moment & I shall go ? you are at home Mentions Chartlotte. Unclear. Fearther (sic) is going to shear the sheep....there is no one to do a thing but Elnor. She asks her mother to come home because she wants to see her.and she is going away. Undated from Ellsworth. She asks her mother to come with Henry. "John wants to be at home when you are here...""Tell aunt lizzy if whe wants to see baby Michael, Rachel? alive go now for she is ? with the ?" Signed "I am your daughter that cannot live many years" [show more]
Description: Letter to Mrs George (Mary) Newman, Mother, April 3, 1870 from Nellie M. Pierce, daughter I am still spinning. " I shall be married to morrow sic evening on Sunday. I don't know which and then he is going to Casteen sic. I shall go with him and then I shall come home... I suspect Mother that you think that I am in hast? but Mother I think that I am going to better my condishion (sic). I am agoing have one that is neither got the habit of drinking nor smoking he goes to see for a living he owns part of a vesel. (sic) that he is master of. I would like to have you and father and the boys come down and see me married if you could..." Letter continues after she is married and she says that Emma was the only one to see her married. "I shall work for Emma. I shall do her cleaning house this spring and then I shall do some more spinning. [show more]
Description: To Mr. George Newman of Eden Maine from Nellie M Pierce June 6. I have spoke for ? and the price is six dollars. Plese let me know whether you are willing to pay that price or not.... Direct the response care of George Newman Mt. Desert
Description: Bright yellow envelope To Mrs. Mary Newman, East Eden from Miss Reliance, Biddeford? Sept 11 "To let her know how poor Jane is.." "She is so dour? in her face" She wants you to come visit
Description: To Mary Newman, Oct 12, 1870, Belfast from Nellie M. Pierce We (presumably George Pierce) and Nellie arrived in Belfast bound for Bangor She was over to Jane's when she was home. "She was real Smart. So that she had been down to the harbor that day that I was there....that thing that she has got there was gone and mother if I had her to live with I would clear her out in no time time for she hasn't so good as ? eat....She thought that she could get along along (probably alone)" [show more]
Description: To George Newman from daughter, Charlotte Newman Charlotte is disturbed about lies. "To think that I was so foolish to believe them." "to think taht if I had a man as that I would live with him no not if he was made of gold. I have had enough to make me ?.. he dose (sic) not drink nor play the hore (sic) ses that I know of and that is more than some of them. Can't tell whether she is referring to the liar. ("I heard that cad sade that (Unidentified) she wanted me to come up She had a lot of old clothes to give her. "She had better keep them." Edwin wrote her. " I do not want any better man to me than I have got." [show more]
Description: Charles Durham, associate editor of a mobilehome magazine, is offering LaRue Spiker some work writing a number of articles for him. Only the bottom part of the letter remains - the rest has been cut off. Previously accessioned as **1891 Object Id **1891
Description: Papers related to Mt. Desert High School in Somesville. Class reunion 1980 and bill from 1948 with notes regarding local schools....Mt. Desert High School founded 1903, Addition to Mt. Desert School 1930, Hall Quarry School built 1901, Somesville School house built in 1897
Description: Letter from William R. Wister Jr. with a donation for the opening of the new hole. Letter from Joseph G. Fogg III letter to Nancy Harris with check and suggestions on how to financially restructure the club.