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Charles Austin Beard Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0662-sc
Abstract

Autograph letter signed. Letter refers to "the views of Locke the Theorist" and of Shaftesbury and to a book on Locke by Fowler.

Dates: August 11 1942

Beebee, Ludlow & Co. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0866-sc
Abstract

A small collection of records of a bullion and exchange dealer. The collection includes letters, receipts, and accounts of Beebee, Ludlow & Co. of New York, Beebee & Co. of New York, and Ludlow, Beebee & Co. of Philadelphia. The period covered is 1846 to 1881.

Dates: 1846-1881

John C. Berdeen Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0663-sc
Abstract

Typewritten letter signed. Envelope and brochure (A Five-Year Program for Good Will Homes and Schools 1919-1924) included. Letter from the Assistant Treasurer of the Good Will Home Association in absence of G.W. Hinckley. Refers to mailing of brochure and request for funds.

Dates: November 14 1919

Edward Robie Berry Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0049
Scope and Contents

Papers include letters, family history, photographs, patent clippings, personal finances, 5 books, a Grasselli Medal for applied chemistry, 1 postccard scrapbook of Maud Henneberry.

Dates: undated

Hiram Gregory Berry Letter (February 2, 1850)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0664-sc
Abstract

Photocopy of autograph letter signed. Refers to schooner Mary Snow carrying "a load of Boards", sailing to Bucksport.

Dates: February 2, 1850

Hiram Gregory Berry Letter (May 14, 1861)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0665-sc
Abstract

Photocopy of autograph letter signed. Refers to appointment and transfer for organizing regiment.

Dates: May 14, 1861

T. A. Bisson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0054
Scope and Contents

Papers of a scholar in international relations of the Far East. Included are correspondence, Yenan (1937) records, photographs, newspaper clippings, books collected by Bisson, and reprints of his works.

Dates: 1928-1980

James Gillespie Blaine Letter (August 11, 18??)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0669-sc
Abstract

Autograph letter signed. Relates to "Aroostook" and Marshall Stanley.

Dates: (August 11, 18??)

James Gillespie Blaine Letter (December 26, 1861)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0666-sc
Abstract

Autograph letter signed. Letter relates to Bills for transporting troops and war munitions over Maine railroads.

Dates: December 26, 1861

James Gillespie Blaine Letter (May 2, 1881)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0668-sc
Abstract

Autograph letter signed. Relates to taxation of vessels engaged in foreign trade.

Dates: May 2, 1881

James Gillespie Blaine Letter (May 7, 1867)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0667-sc
Abstract

Autograph letter signed. Refers to arrangements for trip to Ireland and Wales which may include Lot and two friends.

Dates: May 7, 1867

James Gillespie Blaine Letter (undated)

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0670-sc
Abstract

Autograph letter signed. Informal letter (five pages), speaks of electricity, Green Mountain, Handy, Cornell, Edison, running for presidency (probably 1892 election), etc. Blaine directed the recipient (unknown) of this letter to burn it.

Dates: undated

Joseph Blake Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0058
Scope and Contents

Correspondence consists primarily of 488 letters sent to Rev. Blake by botanists. Also contains later correspondence concerning the donation of his herbarium and 4 lists of fungi.

Dates: 1837-1941; Majority of material found within ( 1847-1888)

Jacob Blanchard Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0985-sc
Abstract

Diaries of a resident of Blanchard, Maine. The 4 diaries cover the years 1887, 1888, 1889-June 1890, and 1892-June 1894.

Dates: 1887-1898

James A. Blanchard II Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1749
Abstract

Correspondence from James A. Blanchard II to his wife, June E. (Peterson) Blanchard, and his son, Bob Blanchard, while he was stationed in the Pacific with the U.S. Navy during World War II. Also includes letters from June Blanchard to James A. Blanchard II.

Dates: March 19, 1940-May 26, 1954; Majority of material found within March 19, 1940-September 6, 1945

Samuel Lane Boardman Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0694-sc
Abstract

Letters of an agricultural editor, writer, and journalist and of a noted Maine naturalist. Included also are 2 letters signed by George A. Boardman.

Dates: 1863-1894

Harold L. Bolstad Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0858-sc
Abstract

Papers comprised chiefly of letters Harold Bolstad sent to his sister Lois Kutscha and her husband Norman P. Kutscha during his service in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was in Vietnam from August 1970 to May 1971. Included also is a short biography of Harold L. Bolstad, a photograph of him in the Marine Corps, and a newspaper clipping with a picture of him in Vietnam.

Dates: 1968-1971

Bond Wheelwright Company Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0061
Scope and Contents

The records of a publishing company in Freeport, Maine. Included are financial records, correspondence with authors, business correspondence, proofs, advertising materials and some illustrations, half tones, and manuscripts.

Dates: 1949-1985

Frank Harvey Bowerman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1690
Abstract

A small collection of personal papers of Frank H. Bowerman, including photograph albums and correspondence.

Dates: 1900-1952

Ernest H. Boynton Diaries and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0997-sc
Abstract Diaries and papers of a railroad employee living in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.The 29 diaries cover the years 1883, 1885-1891, 1895-1906, 1909-1915, 1917, and 1927. Also included in the papers are bank account books from Merchants National Bank of Boston (1914 Nov. 20-1918 June 19); Forest City Trust Company, Portland, Maine (1922 Nov. 17-1923 May 28); First National Bank, Portland, Maine (1923 July 6-1926 July 12); and Melrose Trust Company, Melrose, Massachusetts (1927 March...
Dates: 1883-1927

Boynton Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0860-sc
Abstract A collection of family letters. Most of the correspondence is between Thomas and his wife Mary B. while he was in San Francisco. Included also is a photocopy of a newspaper clipping describing Thomas's voyage from Maine to San Francisco where he erected a frame building sent by Babcock & Norton of New York. Included also is a letter from Arthur S. Boynton to his mother and father dated Feb. 20, 1861. Included also is a letter from R.S. Prescott from Bangor, Maine describing the changes...
Dates: 1850-1869

Peleg Bradford Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0068
Abstract

These papers consist of Peleg Bradford's letters to friends and family during his time as a soldier in the Civil War.

Dates: August 28, 1862-April 7, 1865

Herschel L. Bricker Theater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0070
Scope and Contents

Personal and professional correspondence of Dr. Herschel L. Bricker, and pamphlets, programs, photos, clippings, magazines, plays, reviews, playbills about the Maine Masque Theater, and theater in Maine.

Dates: 1900-1973

Brown Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0075
Abstract

The collection contains personal correspondence of members of the Brown family, who lived in Burton, New Brunswick and Linneus, Maine in the last half of the 19th century.

Dates: 1860-1997; Majority of material found within 1860-1874

Isabel B. Burger Children's Theater Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0078
Scope and Contents

The papers of Isabel Burger pertain mostly to her work with the Children's Experimental Theater and the Children's Theater Association. The collection includes correspondence, scripts, bylaws, minutes, financial, and other records concerning the children's theater organizations.

Dates: 1942-1969

John Perez Burnham Collections

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0915-sc
Abstract

A collection of material relating to the publisher Thomas Bird Mosher, a collection of material relating to the Elijah Lorenzo Green family, and a collection of material relating to the Best/Burnham families.

Dates: 1875-2000

Bussell Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0080
Abstract

Papers and business records of Alfred W. Bussell of Argyle, Maine and John B. Bussell of Old Town, Maine.

Dates: 1856-1912; Majority of material found within 1883-1904

Henry B. Butler Civil War Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0737-sc
Abstract

Photocopies of typescript of the letters of a Civil War soldier.

Dates: 1862-1989; Majority of material found within August 17, 1862-March 13, 1865

C. E. Thayer Son Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0494
Abstract

Documents of a general store in Winterport, Maine. Among the letters are some personal ones including one about petitioning in a murder / assault case.

Dates: 1853-1880s

Howard A. Camp Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1553
Scope and Contents

Letters written between Aug. 1862 and May 1865 by Howard A. Camp, a member of the 21st Connecticut Infantry Regiment, to his family and friends. Collection also includes Camp's diaries for 1862 and 1863 and background information on Camp and his regiment supplied by the donor.

Dates: 1862-1865