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Personal correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred Hitchcock correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: M234
Abstract

Correspondence between members of the Hitchcock family dated between February 1867 and April 1895. Many of the letters are addressed to and from Alfred Hitchcock at boarding school prior to his matriculation at Bowdoin College.

Dates: 1867-1895

Alpheus Spring Packard papers

 Collection
Identifier: M142
Abstract

Correspondence (1819-1886); lectures and addresses (1824-1878); clippings; notes and tributes; sermons by Hezekiah and Asa Packard; and miscellaneous ephemera (1850-1885).

Dates: 1819-1886 undated

Chandler-Cleaveland family papers

 Collection
Identifier: M029
Abstract The collection documents three generations of the personal and, to a lesser extent, professional lives of the Chandler-Cleaveland family. The collection includes extensive information about Peleg Whitman Chandler and Martha Ann Bush Cleaveland, who married in 1837, as well as their son, Horace P. Chandler, and his two daughters, Grace and Ellen. There is also materials related to Parker Cleaveland, the father of Martha; Theophilus Chandler, the brother of Peleg; and Charles Peleg Chandler,...
Dates: 1803-1949, undated

Charles Everett Ranlett papers

 Collection
Identifier: M270
Abstract

Copies of thirty items, mostly letters from Professor Paul Chadbourne (sent while he was a visiting professor at Bowdoin College) to Captain Charles Everett Ranlett. The correspondence concerns arrangements for the Williams College Lyceum of Natural History expedition to Greenland in 1860.

Dates: 1860-1897 undated

Charles H. Foster papers

 Collection
Identifier: M246
Abstract

Primarily correspondence between Charles H. Foster and Herbert Ross Brown and correspondence between Foster and Louis Coxe regarding academics, scholarship, and Bowdoin affairs.

Dates: 1958-1981

Charles Henry Howard collection

 Collection
Identifier: M090
Abstract

Letters, articles, addresses, and diaries including material on the Civil War, on Charles Henry Howard's experiences at Kents Hill School and Bowdoin College, and on Howard and his family.

Dates: 1808-1957 (Bulk: 1852-1910); Majority of material found within 1852-1910

Charles O. Hunt letters and personal recollections

 Collection
Identifier: M241
Abstract

Holograph transcriptions of correspondence and memoirs of Charles O. Hunt documenting his service in the Civil War, including the second battle of Manasass, the Wilderness Campaign, and Gettysburg, as well his internment as a prisoner of war.

Dates: 1861 - 1898

Charles P. Stetson letters

 Collection
Identifier: M314
Abstract

Incoming letters to Charles P. Stetson, the bulk received while he was a student at Yale University.

Dates: 1851-1857, undated

Fessenden collection

 Collection
Identifier: M059
Abstract

Correspondence, professional and personal records, publications, articles, addresses, reports, lectures, memoirs, a diary, documents, receipts, accounts, clippings, images, genealogies, and biographical material related to the Fessenden family.

Dates: 1786-1982, undated; Majority of material found within 1823 - 1869

Franklin Pierce collection

 Collection
Identifier: M148
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence spanning the period from Pierce's election to the New Hampshire legislature to his death in 1869; oratory exhibitions from Pierce's Bowdoin years; newsclippings; commemorative materials; photographs; and ephemera.

Dates: 1823-2010, undated; Majority of material found within 1823 - 1869