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| 5276 | Letter from Jaylene Roths to Planning Board of Mount Desert |
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Description: Duplicate of letter from Jaylene B. Roths, Executive Director of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, to the Planning Board of Mount Desert applying to request permission to sell mission related items in the Somesville Museum and the Sound School House Museum. | ||
| 11617 | Letter from Raymond Somes to Mrs. Arthur L. Somes |
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Description: Raymond writes to his mother from Camp De Souge, Bordeaux, Fr. Raymond starts by talking about how it is expected that they will leave camp in February. Next, he writes about how his regiment | ||
| 5260 | Marketing letter from Gary Allen and Marry Ropp to Friends of Mount Desert Island Marathon |
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Description: Marketing letter from Gary Allen, race director and founder, and Marry Ropp, marketing director and event coordinator, to friends of the Mount Desert Island Marathon. With letter are a race poster and two commemorative race bibs. | |||
| 18787 | Letter from Helen Street Ranney to Eliot |
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Description: 1 Handwritten page Letter expressing grattitude and excitement over the upcomming new edition to her father's History of Mount Desert. | ||
| 18788 | Letter from George H. Street to Eliot |
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Description: 1 Handwritten page Letter transfering the rights to the plates and offering support to Eliot in publishing another edition. | ||
| 18752 | Letter from Charles Eliot to his brothers and sisters |
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Description: 17 handwrite and typed pages Letter from Charles to his brothers and sisters talking about recent archivists who have visited their father's house to help Charles group the documents belonging to their late father. He lists the various categories of documents and memorabilia and which organizations should receive them barring any objections. There is also included a list of books, lectures, sermons prepared by their father. Charles asks for input from his family on if any of them want any of this stuff or if they feel there is a better organization to be the repository of these items. [show more] | ||
| 18790 | Letter from a representative of Houghton Mifflin Company to Eliot |
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Description: 2 typed pages Letter restating of the point of coversation that morning: -need to transfer the copyright. -chapters to be added and removed from the next edition -set up of royalties for Eliot and later George Street's heirs. -anticipated publishing date. | ||
| 18791 | Letter from Eliot to George H. Street |
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Description: 2 typed pages Letter about the upcoming publishing of a new edtion of the History of Mount Desert along with a form for George to sign transfering the rights to the plates of the origional book to Houghton Mifflin & Co. | ||
| 8565 | Letter from the Dana and Bristol Families |
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Description: This is a letter dated 11-06-03 to Ms. Jeschke from Sandy Brown. The letter is from Sandy Brown, PO Box 511, Marlborough, Connecticut. The letter refers to the photos the Brown family has contacted the MDI Historical Society about. | |||
| 14319 | Note to Fred Savage from Mary Pearl Evens Cramp |
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Description: Note from a client to Fred Savage ca 1922 relating to plans for a home in Redlands Ca. Original drawings are in Northeast Harbor Library collection 2012 exhibit text: Home, Mary Pearl Evens Cramp Redlands, CA, ca 1921 Ink and ink wash on vellum. The Gerrish Collection, Northeast Harbor Library These sketches show Savage's development of a more sophisticated rendering style and facility to work in different styles. Two elevation studies for the same owner and the same floor plan are renditions of the Spanish Colonial Revival style typical of California. One study utilizes long horizontal roof lines, while the other emphasizes towers and dormers which produce a less horizontal composition [show more] | |||
| 18753 | Letter to Charles from unknown author |
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Description: 1 typed page Letter to Charles from a family member asking for certain papers of their fathers: Records and Reports of the Summer Camps at Mount Desert Island, H.L. Hackley papers, and copies of certain pages from both The Romance of Mount Desert and the New England Magazine. | ||
| 18758 | Letter from Charles Dunbar to |
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Description: 1 handwritten pages Copy of a letter Charles Dunbar to Tom and Lois telling him about his recent chat with Bill. Charles sends a set of photos of the Champlain Society to Tom and tells him another set will be sent to the Northeast Harbor Library, also asks about the founding of the Champlain society. | ||
| 18754 | Letter the whole family from Charles W. Eliot |
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Description: 1 handwritten page Letter to the whole family from Charles on where Samuel A Eliot's personal papers should be archived. He plans on sending the listed documents to various institutions Samuel Eliot was affiliated with as long as there are no objections from members of the family. | ||
| 18746 | Letter to Peter Oliver |
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Description: 2 handwriten pages Letter to Peter Oliver at Harvard Divinity School. Charles thanks him for helping to sort through his father's papers. He also includes an inventory of the items he is sending for archiving at the Divinity School. He is also asks for some more assistance in sorting the rest of his father's papers. Discussion on how to memorialize his father's belonging at the school. | ||
| 18782 | Letter from S.A. Eliot to Professor Sawtelle |
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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. | ||
| 18793 | Letter from Professor Sawtelle to Dr. Eliot |
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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. | ||
| 18794 | Letter from Professor Sawtelle to Dr. Eliot |
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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. | ||
| 18792 | Letter from Professor Sawtelle to Dr. Eliot |
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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. | ||
| 18748 | Letter from Charles Eliot to Peter Oliver-Leharian |
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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. | ||
| 18751 | Letter from Charles Eliot to Ted |
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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. | ||
| 18784 | Letter from Houghton Mifflin Co. to S.A. Eliot |
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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. | ||
| 17057 | Letter to Sally Barnard (1818) |
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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 | ||
| 4681 | Letter from Josiah Phillips to Luther A. Phillips |
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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] | ||
| 11996 | 1842 Letter from Jacob Somes to his wife Agnes. |
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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. | |||
| 12551 | Letter from ESJ Nealle (?) to AJ Heath |
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Description: Letter written from the Custom House in Bath [Maine]; writer's name hard to read. Letter dated Nov. 6, 1851 responds to letter from Mr. Heath; indicates that a Capt. McMullin cleared [customs] the previous day and had asked the writer to give him the name of a person to whom he should send money. Writer apparently gave the wrong name (A.J. Clark of Southwest Harbor);it should have been Mr. Heath. |
