Description: Framed letter from Capt. John Francis Hodgdon to Frank Leslie Hodgdon. Two frames glued back to back showing both sides of paper through glass. Typed transcript of letter in object file. Donor info - This is the last letter written by my grandfather Capt. John Francis Hodgdon. It was written to my father, Frank Leslie Hodgdon. Capt Hodgdon was lost with his ship the Theodore Dean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina a few week later.
Description: Letter from Franklin W. Hooper at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science to Rev. Samuel Eliot about his lecture the evening before. Inviting him to give him a lecture the following year to a group of Harvard men.
Description: Letter from Edwin Mead at New England Magazine to Rev. Samuel Eliot about comisioning an article on early explorers of the New England Coast.
Description: Letter written March 28, 1897 by A.J. Robinson to Raymond P. Somes (1893-1983) expressing hope that Raymond is being good and that he'll grow up to be a nice boy and remember his grandfather by this letter.
Description: Letter from Emma L. Rich, New Haven, CT to her aunt, Jane Kitteridge, Mount Dessert, Maine, dated March 4, 1895, together with a burgundy ribbon.
Document, Correspondence, Letter, Recommendation Letter
Collection:
William Sheldon Brown
Date:
4/18/1899
Description: Letter of recommendation for Capt. William S. Brown. Competent and Safe Navigator of the New England Coast. Sighned by J. H. Flitner of J. H. Flitner and Co. Ship Brokers.
Description: Two cards: 1. For Somesville High School, winter term, 1896, showing grades in percentage for reading, spelling, grammar, geometry, algebra, rhetoric, and Latin. Signed on back by Lewis Somes. Teacher was E.W. Ober. 2. Other card does not give date or school, but lists subjects and is signed on back by Lewis Somes and Emma Somes. Teacher was B.H. Winslow. Cards in envelope addressed to Mr. Lewis Somes, Mt. Desert