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Letters

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:

Robert Earle Moody papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 335
Scope and Content note

Correspondence relating largely to the preparation of The letters of Thomas Gorges: deputy governor of the province of Maine, 1640-1643, including photocopies of the original documents; drafts of various sections of "The Maine frontier, 1607-1763" (Ph.D. dissertation), an unpublished manuscript on the Waldo patent settlements; and other miscellaneous papers.

Dates: ca. 1933-1973

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

Waterfront Alliance records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4093
Scope and Content note

Agendas, minutes, correspondence, printed material, supporting documents, and financial records. Manuscript notes by the donor can be found throughout the collection, as well as in Box 1, Folder 4.

Dates: 1990 - 2019

Wentworth-Merrill family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 261
Scope and Content note Correspondence, diaries, account books, survey books, deeds, hymnbooks, school books, and genealogical data relating to the Wentworth and Merrill families of Brownfield and Gray, Maine. Papers relate primarily to Deacon William Wentworth (1776-1865) and his grandson Ansel W. Merrill (1855-1910), but also include material of Betsey Merrill Wentworth (1781-1853), Paul Wentworth (b.1779), Robert Wentworth (1786-1866), Thomas Wentworth (b. 1791), Mary Paine Wentworth (b. 1823), Sophronia...
Dates: 1796 - 1933

Westport, Maine, post office collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4300
Scope and Content note

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

Dates: 1863 - 1885

William B. Jordan research papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2998
Scope and Content note

This collection contains manuscripts of published works, Civil War research papers, newspaper index information, commonplace books, newspaper clippings, correspondence, speeches, and photographs.

Dates: 1836 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1958 - 1999