N.O.S.

Documents containing autographs. Documents are chiefly from 19th century local and national notables, some of whom were important in Maine history. Local notables include: Edmund Andros, Ralph Owen Brewster, Nelson Dingley, Neal Dow, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Hannibal Hamlin, James Augustine Healy, John Holmes, Sarah Orne Jewett, Nathan Lord, John Neal, Thomas B. Reed, Laura Elizabeth Richards, Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, E.B. Washburne, Wallace H. White, Tobias Lear, Samuel Finley Breese Morse and Kate Douglas Wiggin. National notables include: John Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Clara Barton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington and Daniel Webster. Autographed documents include correspondence, depositions, deeds, invitations, and some promissory notes.

Note that document type is described in folder notes fields, and includes ALS (autograph letter signed), ADS (autograph document signed), certificate, note, hymn, account, drawing, and signature.