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]
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.
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.
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.
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: Correspondence, copies of letter from Robert W. Patterson to Jerome Knowles, August 30, 1970, related to revisions to plan and cost estimates for a property at the corner of Summit Road and Main Street, Northeast Harbor, Maine, VIA Property, Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1970
Description: Letter, copy of typewritten letter from Frances Fitzgerald, to Robert Patterson, related to a request for a survey map of a house site on Sargents Point, thought to be site of original drawings for House for Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine, 1948
Description: Letter from Writer's Digest awarding prize for manuscript, "Hang Him Higher than Human" Prizes not attached Previously archived as 012.FIC.042.13, **1345
Description: Letter, copy, from Robert W. Patterson, Jr. to Thomas S. Gates, Jr., October 4, 1972, related to the construction of the alterations to the Home for Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Gates, Jr., Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1972
Description: Letter, typewritten from Benjamin Welles to Robert Patterson, May 11, 1973, related to the pool house construction plans, House for Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Welles, Pretty Marsh, ME, 1973
Description: Correspondence, copy of letter from Robert W. Patterson to Robert R. Pyle, December 16, 1974, related to addition of the Harris Room, New wing, Northeast Harbor Library, Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1964-1975
Description: Correspondence, three letters, between Mrs. H.D. Beeler and R.W. Patterson, Sr. related to the design for a new residence for the Beeler's in Blue Hill, Maine
Description: Letter from Nelson Leland to Betsy Alexander discussing problems within the MDI Historical Society in relation to the Society Newsletter. Four typewritten pages.
Description: Notes, one page, notes for plans of new home for Mr. and Mrs. B.B. Hinckley, Southwest Harbor, 1977 Created to be read by Mr. and Mrs. B.B. Hinckley
Description: Letter from John Letcher, Jr about a story the American (magazine) was plannng about the Stanley -44 launching to LaRue Spiker. And copy of letter that Lechter has attached from Lechter to Dave Getchell regarding launching and the design of the boat by Lyford Stanley and Jock (Stanley?) Discusses computerized design. Previously archived as 012.FIC.042.15, **1346, **1347
Description: Photocopy of two page handwritten letter from Sanderson to Betsy Alexander. Sanderson accepts Alexander's resignation from the MDI Historical Society Newsletter Committee and discusses Mrs. Alexander's grievances with the committee.
Description: Letter from Mrs. Alexander to Sanderson tendering her resignation from the MDI Historical Society Newsletter Committee and explaining her discontent with the operation of this committee.
Description: Letter from MDI Historical Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, to Helen Fernald notifying her of her appointment as a charter member of the Society.