Box 1
Container
Contains 13 Results:
Correspondence, David S. Deering to Rufus Deering, 1836 - 1848
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
David S. (Seavey?) Deering (1816-1902) was the brother of Rufus Deering. Letters written from Brookville (Pennsylvania), Brooks (Maine), and Barnet (Vermont?), and to Bradford (Maine), Buxton (Maine), Burnt Fort (Georgia). Subjects include lumber, "the people here are a set of heathen ignorant superstitious and bigoted…," a big work contract, anti-mason elections, teaching sleigh, temperance, the comet (of 1843), entering law practice (1843), Henry Clay’s bid for president (1844), David’s...
Dates:
1836 - 1848
Deborah Eastman (Deering) correspondence, 1835 - 1859
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Letters to Deborah from family and friends, before and after her marriage to Rufus. Includes at least one letter from Deborah home to her family (written from Concord). Also includes photographs of Ezra Eastman and Mercy Philpot Eastman (Deborah’s parents) and Deborah Philpot Hayes (sister of Mercy), and 1923 receipt from Mrs. E.D.J. Mills to Mrs. Annie P. Eastman (for milk).
Dates:
1835 - 1859
Emily Deering Jordan journal, 1876 - 1882
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Journals starts on Christmas Day, 1876. Includes other information, such as weight of various family members, "members of Miss Gould’s Book Club" (1883), copy of will of Merrill Page Jordan (Emily’s husband whom she married in 1869), poetry, Rufus Deering obituary, newspaper clippings (including obituary of Deborah Eastman Deering), formulas (recipes), book lists, expenses, genealogies (Jordan, Page), library accounts, calls (visitors), addresses, books read. See Folder 7 for letter from...
Dates:
1876 - 1882