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Personal correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Robert Hale papers

 Collection
Identifier: M080
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches; legal case records and briefs; voting records for the sessions when Hale was a member of Congress; and photographs, mostly from visits with constituents.

Dates: 1876 - 1976, undated

Robert P. Tristram Coffin and National Parent-Teacher magazine correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: M206
Abstract

Letters between Robert P. Tristram Coffin and staff of the National Parent-Teacher magazine including Eva Grant, J.K. Pettengill, and Eleanore Twiss.

Dates: 1938-1960, undated

Robert Peter Tristram Coffin family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: M207
Abstract

Letters from Robert P. Tristram Coffin, primarily to his mother, Alice M. Coffin, and his sister, Annie Coffin (Mrs. Harold Sanborn).

Dates: 1915-1954, undated

Rowland Bailey Howard papers

 Collection
Identifier: M092
Abstract

Letters, diaries, journals, pamphlets, sermons, clippings and speeches from the personal papers of Rowland Bailey Howard.

Dates: 1807-1937, undated; Majority of material found within 1848-1892

Samuel E. Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: M167
Abstract

The collection contains letters (1810-1880 and undated), many relating to the northeast boundary dispute; documents (1786-1880); financial records (1830-1880); and other ephemeral material.

Dates: 1786-1880

Samuel Silsbee correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: M317
Abstract

59 letters concerning student life at Bowdoin, Silsbee's religious convictions, his teaching appointments, and family life in Maine.

Dates: 1811-1844 (bulk 1834-1844); Majority of material found within 1834 - 1844

Sarah Sampson and the Third Maine Regiment of Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .S267 folio
Scope and Contents

Bound electrostatic copies of typescripts, newspaper clippings, general orders, and other resources documenting the life of Sarah Sampson, particularly her role as a nurse with the Maine 3rd Regt. Vols., and including typed transcriptions of correspondence with Oliver Otis Howard

Dates: 1981-1983

Shepherd and Crie family letters

 Collection
Identifier: M302
Abstract

Family correspondence of the Shepherd and Crie families of Rockland, Maine, and letters from Almon Shepherd, a Wisconsin settler, to Flora Shepherd.

Dates: 1862-1879

Smith Brothers student letters

 Collection
Identifier: M219
Abstract

Consists of fifty-one letters and three Bowdoin term bills, written by students Joseph (Bowdoin Class of 1854), Samuel (Harvard), and Henry Smith. Letters are primarily addressed to their father Hon. Samuel E. Smith, Sr., of Wiscasset, Maine and reveal an interesting window into ante-bellum college life.

Dates: 1850-1854

Thomas Carlyle letters

 Collection
Identifier: M043
Abstract

The collection consists almost entirely of letters (1820-1854) from Carlyle to his friend, William Graham (b.1770), a Scottish shipping merchant and, later, gentleman sheep farmer; together with typescripts of Graham's letters to Carlyle.

Dates: 1820-1854, undated