Personal correspondence
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Robert Hale papers
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.
Robert P. Tristram Coffin and National Parent-Teacher magazine correspondence
Letters between Robert P. Tristram Coffin and staff of the National Parent-Teacher magazine including Eva Grant, J.K. Pettengill, and Eleanore Twiss.
Robert Peter Tristram Coffin family correspondence
Letters from Robert P. Tristram Coffin, primarily to his mother, Alice M. Coffin, and his sister, Annie Coffin (Mrs. Harold Sanborn).
Rowland Bailey Howard papers
Letters, diaries, journals, pamphlets, sermons, clippings and speeches from the personal papers of Rowland Bailey Howard.
Samuel E. Smith papers
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.
Samuel Silsbee correspondence
59 letters concerning student life at Bowdoin, Silsbee's religious convictions, his teaching appointments, and family life in Maine.
Sarah Sampson and the Third Maine Regiment of Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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
Shepherd and Crie family letters
Family correspondence of the Shepherd and Crie families of Rockland, Maine, and letters from Almon Shepherd, a Wisconsin settler, to Flora Shepherd.
Smith Brothers student letters
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.
Thomas Carlyle letters
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.