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Letters

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Reed, Abbot, Binford, and Hatch family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4280
Scope and Content note

This collection documents the activities, relationships, genealogies, and businesses of the Reed, Abbot, Binford, and Hatch families during the 19th and 20th centuries, primarily within the towns of Rumford, Roxbury, and Mexico, Maine. Contents include correspondence, personal papers, diaries, financial and business records, legal documents, scrapbooks, genealogical research, news clippings, photographs (including negatives and cased photos), albums, and maps.

Dates: 1825 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1838 - 1969

Reverend John Tripp papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4237
Scope and Content note

This collection includes correspondence, signed statements and decisions, financial documents such as promissory notes, pew deeds and tithe accounts, and publications by or related to Reverend John Tripp, the town of Hebron, and its Baptist Church. Accompanying most items is a typed transcript, often prefaced with context, which may have been prepared for an exhibit.

Dates: 1787 - 1893

Sewall family correspondence and documents

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4249
Scope and Content note

Mostly correspondence, but also includes documents.

Dates: 1801 - 1975

Sheldon family papers and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4282
Scope and Content note

This collection documents the Sheldon family’s summer trips to Maine’s Katahdin region in the first half of the 20th century, through both written accounts and photographs. Contents include correspondence, diaries, calendars, maps, photographs, photo albums, and negatives.

Dates: 1900 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1951

Shepard Cary papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4232
Scope and Content note The collection includes correspondence, land leases, business and financial records, estate papers, maps, printed matter, and various account books and ledgers. This material relates primarily to Cary’s varied business enterprises, including his lumber operations and sales, employee records, and land leases and management. A portion relates also to his political positions and roles. Correspondence regarding his position as sutler, and his ensuing removal, are included, as are a handful of...
Dates: 1808 - 1889

Skolfield family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4230
Scope and Content note This collection consists of the personal and business-related papers of the Skolfield family. This includes correspondence, personal papers such as schoolwork, and financial records, including bills, receipts, bank books and accounts, for various members of the Skolfield family, as well as the related Dunning family. The bulk of the collection, however, is comprised of ship and ship building records, including account books, employee records, ship inventories and finances, correspondence...
Dates: 1807 - 1944; Majority of material found within 1826 - 1896

Swett family collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4224
Scope and Content note

Letters, documents, and photographs, as well as photocopies of letters, photographs, certificate. Includes volume (spiral bound) compiled by Elena L. Swett McHerron and Judith Ann McHerron in 2003 of photocopies of the letters by Henry Augustus Swett, and related material.

Dates: 1852 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1852 - 1864

Westport, Maine, post office collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4300
Scope and Content note

Correspondence, forms, receipts, circulars, broadsides, accounts.

Dates: 1863 - 1885