Description: Per title page: A Romance after the German of F. LeWald. Label inside front cover: Regulations of Sound Public Library, Mount Deseret Island, Maine
Description: Text and illustrations about Mt. Desert in 1873. Written on first page: S. E. Morrison The annotations are by my grandmother Mrs. Samuel Eliot, who was there in the 1880's.
Description: Monteith's Independent Course. Comprehensive Geography. Copy 1 - Johnny A. Smith Pretty Marsh Hancock C. Maine, handwritten on back of 1st page. Colored newspaper copy of sea-captain inserted between cover and first page. Copy 2. Lettie A. Smith. A. D. 1880 Pretty Marsh Maine, handwritten on first page
Description: A work of fiction Dedicated to the archduchess Sophia of Austria, Officers and Seamen of the Austrian Navy, and the Citizens of Trieste Inscribed L.F. Somes, Mount Desert, Maine, 1875
Description: "A General View of the Origin, History and Condition of the Various Sects of Christians, the Jews and Mahometans, as well as the Pagan Forms of Religion Existing in the Different Countries of the Earth: with Sketches of the Founder of Various Religious Sects" Noted on front pages: "Presented to Mount DesertIsland Museum by Abbie Thomas Richardson."
Description: These songs were "especially adapted for revivals, prayer and camp meetings." Inside inscribed Lucie F. Somes, Mt. Desert, Maine, Sept. 4th, 1875
Description: Maine Register, 1876-77 Includes Map of counties, towns, railroads, steamboat, telegraph, and express companies. Handwritten inside front cover " T.S. Somes Mt. Desert Maine".
Description: for the use of public and private schools with an Inrtoductory Treatise on elocution by prof. Mark Bailey no local relevance except possibly the Ada Gray signature in front
Description: Intended to follow the Primer or First Reader in the Franklin series; Contains a variety of subjects of interest to "young scholars" and to influence morality and "kindly affections" including the "good treatment of domestic animals." Also includes questions to test comprehension. Inscribed "Harry Ernest Bordeaux."
Description: ...for the use of public and private schools. Pencil writing and calculations on end papers. Stamped Ada R. Gray inside front and Geog Freeman in back
Description: "Incidents and anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor, for over forty years pastor of the Seaman's Bethel, Boston" Inscribed in front: "Mrs. H.A. Wiggin, South [Lauren?].
Description: Handwritten in front pages: "Presented to Charles E. Somes by R.L. Grindle, As a prize for Declamation during tern just closed. Somesville Mar 2nd 1872."
Description: Grammar text for "the higher grades of schools." Donor notes that it was John Somes school book; his name noted inside along with "Waterville Maine," and "Mt. Desert Maine."