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Personal correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

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

Charles Vaughan family papers

 Collection
Identifier: M180
Abstract

Correspondence (1781-1848); documents, including deeds and land records; essays; and other material (1683-1908) relating to Charles Vaughan and the Vaughan family of Hallowell, Maine.

Dates: 1683-1908, undated; Majority of material found within 1743 - 1869

Donald and Miriam MacMillan collection

 Collection
Identifier: M118
Abstract The papers of husband and wife Donald Baxter MacMillan (Bowdoin 1898, 1874-1970) and Miriam Look MacMillan (1905-1987), document exploration in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions from the time of Robert E. Peary’s successful North Pole expedition (1908-1909), through both World Wars, and into the modern scientific era. Materials include the MacMillans' personal and professional correspondence, log books and journals, published and unpublished writings, notebooks, scrapbooks, lecture...
Dates: 1875 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1908-1987

Edward Farrington Abbott, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: M225
Abstract

The collection contains World War II correspondence of Edward Farrington Abbott, Jr. to family members, 1942-1945 and miscellaneous biographical material. The letters principally concern Abbott's day-to-day and recreational activities.

Dates: 1915-1978, 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

Fred Anthoensen collection

 Collection
Identifier: M004
Abstract

Correspondence, newsclippings, photographs, a manuscript of "Types and Book Making," and assorted biographical material.

Dates: 1901 - 1969

Frederic Wilson Main papers

 Collection
Identifier: M122
Abstract

Correspondence between Frederic Wilson Main and book designers and printers, such as Frederic W. Goudy, William A. Kittredge, and Daniel B. Updike; also includes articles, newspaper clippings, printed ephemera, and images.

Dates: 1925-1948, undated