Description: 2 typed pages. This is a copy of a letter from S. A. Eliot to Sawtelle about Houghton Mifflin Company wanting to publish another edition of History of Mount Desert. The author of the letter is writing to see if Sawtelle feels there are any corrections or additions he fells should be added to another edition.
Description: 3 typed pages. Letter suggest ways to make changes be to Street's original book. He also makes mention that he feels a bibliography might be included at the end of the new edition. He also responds to Eliot's suggestion that he himself publishes a book on Mount Desert Island's history.
Description: 1 typed page. Letter looking forward to their meeting in person at his house and that he is currently writing the bibliography. He also suggest a correction to page 19.
Description: 1 typed pages. Letter suggest changes be made to Street's account of Bernard's grant of Mount Desert. He also makes mention that he can send Eliot information on the original families that settled Somes Sound.
Description: LaRue Spiker inquires about the reception of her article ‘Armadillos, Alligators, and Gray Squirrels who Spell’. She asks editor David F. Lyon to send back the ms if he does not want to publish it. Previously accessioned as **1991, Object Id 2001.1991
Description: 1 handwriten page Copy of a letter to Peter Oliver at Harvard Divinity School thanking him for helping to sort through his fathers papers and also including a list of items Charles is transvering to Havard Divinity School for archiving. Charles also ask for further assistance in storing the remainder of the items in the house and their potential to be housed at the Divinity School.
Description: 1 handwriten page Letter from Charles to Ted telling him he is mailing him a big package of their father's documents for him to review. He asks after Ted reviews the documents he should send them to the Harvard Archives.
Description: Letter to M.L. Allen from Frank Page, of Bucksport. January 25, 1906. In reference to his support for Allen’s Republican Party nomination for County Commissioner. Previously archived as object id 011.FIC.41.1, old accession **0442
Description: Bradley Smith tells LaRue that he has enclosed some requested photos, and information about the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, for her forthcoming article. Previously accessioned as Object Id 014.FIC.008.14
Description: Photocopy of letter to Virginia Somes Sanderson discussing Somes family genealogical research. Letter also describes attachments which are cataloged separately in this Somes folder.
Description: 1 typed page Letter from Houghton Mifflin Co to Eliot about a letter to Mrs. Hinckley about the need to correct errors in the origional History of Mount Desert before a new edition is published. Letter was sent from William O. Sawtelle to Mrs. Hinckley.
Description: Letter to William Thompson of Mount Desert Bridge Corporation from John Black, President of the Corporation regarding dividends and notice of such to be posted in Post Office.
Description: Letter from John Barnard to his mother, Sally Barnard on March 24th 1818: " I have sent you a Bottle of Ether. Mr. Spear the gentleman who prepared it says you must wash your head & smell of it. It is pretty powerfull therefore I would advise you to use it moderately at first. Altho he says you cannot use too much of it. This comes by Mr ____. Your Obt Son J Barnard
Description: Photocopy of an 1830 handwritten letter from Josiah Phillips to Luther A. Phillips of Orland, Maine. The letter tells of the death of Josiah's father and Luther's father. The letter fills one-page; a photocopy of the page showing the address has also been copied. The orginal sheet of paper was approx. 15 inches wide and 12' high. It had been folded in half and the address written on the outside. The letter itself was about 7.5" in width and 12" high. [show more]
Description: Handwritten documents: 1. Contract to build bridge across Mt. Desert Narrows, 1836 2. Survey of Mt. Desert Narrows, 1836 3. Letter complaining about bridge corporation 4. Proposal to build toll house. 5. Bond--contractor to build bridge 6. Other letters related to declaring dividend, concern about tolls by mail carriers, ministers 7. 1850 bill for repair. 8. Dividend Payment for John Somes
Description: Affectionate 2 page letter from Jacob Somes to his wife Agnes. Describes his boarding house in Augusta, where he was serving in the legislature. Mentioned his homesickness, fear of fire and sickness among the children.