Diaries
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Journal of a passage from Boston to California on board the ship Rob Roy
Daily passenger's log of a gold rush voyage by a Maine native, with entries dated from January 25 to August 10, 1850
Kate Douglas Wiggin collection
The collection contains correspondence, journals, book and story manuscripts, commonplace books, notebooks and notes related to Wiggin's writing; also includes lectures on kindergarten subjects, clippings, photographs and material concerning her Irish "literary pilgrimage."
Kate Furbish collection
Kate Furbish (1834-1931) was a notable botanical illustrator; the bulk of Furbish's life's work--collecting, classifying, and drawing the flora of Maine--was done between 1870 and 1908. The collection includes sixteen bound volumes of Furbish's sketches and watercolors of flora, entitled "Maine Flora," loose artwork, journals, correspondence, and research materials.
Ledger and journal
Bound ledger recording United States Christian Commission agent Redlon's expenses while stationed at Martinsburg, W.Va., Summit Point, Va., and Harper's Ferry, W.Va., from April through June 1865, along with a brief set of journal entries recounting Redlon's travels from Maine southward early in 1865 to join the Commission
Logbook
Printed journal with daily holograph entries documenting passages in unnamed ships from Savannah, Georgia, to Liverpool, England, and from Liverpool to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1821
Maria Fuller diaries
Contains fifty diaries by Maria Fuller. The 1869 and 1870 diaries detail a trip to Washington, D.C., and include a description of her meeting with President and Mrs. Grant, General Sherman and other dignitaries.
North Greenland Expedition journals
Bound ledgers containing daily entries documenting Peary's first North Greenland Expedition, including drawings and scrapbook items. Additional notes detail findings of North American birds, eggs, and nests
Notes cliniques médecine
Bound volumes with daily manuscript entries detailing clinical experiences of a physician in training, possibly in France
R. L. Mundy, Logbook
Log kept during the years 1867-1871, by R. L. Mundy, midshipman of the Royal Navy, documenting various training cruises by students of the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, England, and including numerous manuscript charts and hand-drawn views of coastal landmarks, chiefly in the Caribbean region
Record book of Rev. Jonathan Edwards Adams, of New Sharon, Maine, during his two month's [sic] service with the U.S. Christian Commission in 1863 at Alexandria, Washington & Gettysburg
Ruled journal issued by the U.S. Christian Commission recording field work by Jonathan E. Adams, including providing comfort and support for wounded Union soldiers during 1863, with details of medical treatments, causes of death, last wishes of the dying, Adams's itinerary, and his expenses