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Letters

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:

International Appalachian Trail records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4213
Scope and Content note The collection documents the formation, development, and administration of the IAT. While the collection primarily documents the Maine Chapter, where the IAT was initially conceived, there is also a great deal of information from and about the international chapters. The records include emails and letters, financial statements, membership records, meeting agendas, tax and insurance records, news clippings, maps, brochures, photographs, slides, and audiovisual material. These items reflect...
Dates: 1982 - 2024; Majority of material found within 1993 - 2021

It's Our World Too collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4204
Scope and Content note

Letters, photographs, printed material (such as newsletters), and petitions.

Dates: 1982 - 1991

J. Peter Monro landscape architecture collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4292
Scope and Content note

This collection documents J. Peter Monro’s professional projects as a landscape designer and architect. Contents include landscape and architectural drawings, correspondence, contracts, reports, writings, news clippings, photographs, negatives, slides, and digital files. The collection reflects Monro’s work on residential, commercial, municipal, public, and conservation projects as a landscape designer, architect, and consultant, as well as trustee and advisor to non-profit public works.

Dates: 1983 - 2009

James Gower papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4239
Scope and Content note

Legal documents, correspondence, financial papers, and various writs, deeds, and agreements of James Gower, his family, and related to his various positions in local government. Included are several documents related to Bowdoin College land sales for which Gower played a role as agent, as well as versions of his own will and testament with details regarding his estate.

Dates: 1810 - 1856

Jeannette Jason correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4294
Scope and Content note

Letters (including non-pictorial postcards) and newspaper clippings. There is also a v-mail letter, a Valentine, a Christmas card, and one photograph of a horse. Mother Maud would often clip Portland job advertisements (newspaper clippings) to her correspondence to her daughter.

Dates: 1937 - 1950

Joan Benoit Samuelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4291
Scope and Content note

This collection documents the racing career of marathon runner Joan Benoit Samuelson. Contents include correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, promotional material, and posters.

Dates: 1952 - 2019

John Fairfield papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 145
Scope and Content note

These are primarily letters to John Fairfield from various political figures, family members and his law partner, William P. Haines, from 1821-1847. Letters in each folder are in chronological order with the letter writer’s name, date and location. Papers also include documents, accounts, and certificates. Some of the items are from after John Fairfield’s death.

Dates: 1802 - 1859; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1847

John Harris Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4228
Scope and Content note The collection consists primarily of business and financial papers, including bills, receipts, inventories, promissory notes, and legal records. The business and financial papers reflect John Harris’ personal and professional activities, including the accounts of his store and his position as collector for the First Baptist Society. The collection also includes the records of legal disputes presented to Harris during his tenure as Justice of the Peace, as well as documents related to his...
Dates: 1811 - 1848

John Lynch papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 398
Scope and Content note

Primarily political correspondence from or to other politicians, also including formal invitations from presidents, cabinet officers, and other dignitaries.

Dates: 1861 - 1891

John Mead Gould papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 337
Scope and Content note Papers containing genealogical material relating to the ancestry of Mager Gould (d. 1781) of Ipswich, Mass.; an historical sketch of the Portland Society of Natural History and newspaper clippings relating to the Society’s seventieth anniversary celebrations; letters written by J.M. Gould to his parents while a student at Gould Academy, Bethel, Me.; correspondence from Percival Proctor Baxter, William Bingham, 2nd, J.N. Bolling, Jonathan Prince Cilley, William Pierce Frye, Wendell Phillips...
Dates: 1854 - 1930