Box 3

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series includes family correspondence to, from, and regarding OFS and ROS, as well as family record books and registers. Also includes a folder of notes and research about OFS and family conducted by donor Peter Small (PMS). Correspondence includes that of OFS’ siblings and nieces, wives and related family members, girlfriends, and son. Family genealogy material includes a notebook listing Small family members by generation and a detailed family record book and album completed by...

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Includes medical discharge from army (1863), disability claims, and records regarding pension after his death in 1909. Originals and photocopies. PMS index number 18.

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Intake and patient care records copied from documents in the Maine State Archives (likely, Augusta Mental Health Institute collection, within Department of Health and Human Services records). OFS 1909 patient records indicate a diagnosis of manic depressive disorder. Institute now called Riverview Psychiatric Center. PMS index number 20.

Scope and Contents Three sections: 1. Pages 7-114, 1859-1861, recording daily activities and life in Andover, Me. 2. Pages 121-171, ca. 1862-1863, records service in the 20th Maine Regiment of the Union Army, much of the content apparently copied later from letters he had send home; 3. Throughout, at bottom of pages, 1876+, recollections for ROS. 172 pages. Accompanied by PMS notes.See Maine Memory Network record 149211 for...

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Writings regarding Andover schools, a visit from Joshua Small (father) to OFS at Bethel Academy (Gould Academy), and other miscellaneous subjects. PMS index number 6.

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Writings about farm and early life in Letter B, attributed to OFS by PMS. PMS also notes that the writing includes many names of houses. Page 18 dates writing to November 26, 1899. PMS index number 3. Also housed in folder: pencil drawing of "my birth place," in Letter B, by OFS, and an illustrated print of a home which PMS titled "Andover house"; no further identification found.

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Writings by OFS on a variety of subjects. Includes a record of treatment OFS provided ROS when seriously ill, 1879; poems, such as one about courting; a short essay on fiction; memories of Mt. Hope and of buying his father's farm in Paris, Me.; a list of towns in Maine, some by county; and a recording of Maxwell genealogy.

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Various writings by OFS regarding religion and his thoughts. PMS notes that this includes "some interesting comparisons of life vs. Bible, Baptist vs. Congregationalist, Jew vs. Christian." Also includes reflections on "evil habits" and the danger of their development in children.

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Gathered by PMS. Miscellaneous writings by OFS about his "insane" episodes and institutionalizations. Most not dated but PMS notes that 1, 2, and 3 appear to date from his first stay in Augusta and in the Paris jail (1880). Accompanied by PMS notes.

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Record of family history, interspersed with current activities. 101 pages. Accompanied by PMS notes about content.