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You searched for: Date: 1920sType: DocumentType: Correspondence
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Race Poster
Northeast Harbor Fleet
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • 1925
Race Poster
Northeast Harbor Fleet
Description:
Framed poster announcing 1925 races of Northeast Harbor Fleet. Text reads: The NORTHEAST HARBOR FLEET 1925 Yacht races will be held every Tuesday and Friday afternoon from July 17th to Sept. 4th, except Friday, August 21st. It is requested that boats other than racing yachts keep clear of the course and particularly avoid going to weather of racing yachts and giving them wash. C.P.B. Jefferys Secretary
Letter from George L. Stebbins to Mr. Allen
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Oct. 20, 1925
Letter from George L. Stebbins to Mr. Allen
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Letter discussing a check to the the Seal Harbor Yarch Club and the purchase of stock certificates.
Copy of letter
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Mayo, C.G.
  • 11/25/1924
Copy of letter
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Copy of letter regarding Mayo Genealogy from C.G. Mayo to an unnamed Mr. Mayo.
Letter from CG Mayo to Charles A Mayo
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Mayo, CG
  • 1/9/1925
Letter from CG Mayo to Charles A Mayo
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Copy of letter from CG Mayo to Charles A Mayo regarding Mayo genealogy, including Joshua Mayo who moved to Mount Desert in 1778,
Letter from Professor Sawtelle to Dr. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • William O. Sawtelle
  • 12/17/1924
Letter from Professor Sawtelle to Dr. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 typed page. Letter looking forward to their meeting in person at his house and that he is currently writing the bibliography. He also suggest a correction to page 19.
Letter from Professor Sawtelle to Dr. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • William O. Sawtelle
  • 12/17/1924
Letter from Professor Sawtelle to Dr. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
3 typed pages. Letter suggest ways to make changes be to Street's original book. He also makes mention that he feels a bibliography might be included at the end of the new edition. He also responds to Eliot's suggestion that he himself publishes a book on Mount Desert Island's history.
Letter from Professor Sawtelle to Dr. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • William O. Sawtelle
  • 12/22/1924
Letter from Professor Sawtelle to Dr. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 typed pages. Letter suggest changes be made to Street's account of Bernard's grant of Mount Desert. He also makes mention that he can send Eliot information on the original families that settled Somes Sound.
Letter from Eliot to George H. Street
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • S. A. Eliot
  • 10/9/1924
Letter from Eliot to George H. Street
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
2 typed pages Letter about the upcoming publishing of a new edtion of the History of Mount Desert along with a form for George to sign transfering the rights to the plates of the origional book to Houghton Mifflin & Co.
Letter from a representative of Houghton Mifflin Company to Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Houghton Mifflin & Co.
  • 10/3/1924
Description:
2 typed pages Letter restating of the point of coversation that morning: -need to transfer the copyright. -chapters to be added and removed from the next edition -set up of royalties for Eliot and later George Street's heirs. -anticipated publishing date.
Letter from George (?) H Street to Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • George H. Street
  • 6/30/1924
Letter from George (?) H Street to Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 handwritten page Letter in which he relinquishes his rights to the plates for the book History of Mount Desert published by his late father.
Letter from George H. Street to Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • George H. Street
  • 10/11/1924
Letter from George H. Street to Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 Handwritten page Letter transfering the rights to the plates and offering support to Eliot in publishing another edition.
Letter from Helen Street Ranney to Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Helen Street Ranney
  • 10/11/1924
Letter from Helen Street Ranney to Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 Handwritten page Letter expressing grattitude and excitement over the upcomming new edition to her father's History of Mount Desert.
Letter from Houghton Mifflin Co. to S.A. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Houghton Mifflin Co.
  • 12-9-1924
Letter from Houghton Mifflin Co. to S.A. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 typed page Letter from Houghton Mifflin Co to Eliot about a letter to Mrs. Hinckley about the need to correct errors in the origional History of Mount Desert before a new edition is published. Letter was sent from William O. Sawtelle to Mrs. Hinckley.
Letter from S.A. Eliot to Professor Sawtelle
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • S.A. Eliot
  • 12/16/1924
Letter from S.A. Eliot to Professor Sawtelle
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
2 typed pages. This is a copy of a letter from S. A. Eliot to Sawtelle about Houghton Mifflin Company wanting to publish another edition of History of Mount Desert. The author of the letter is writing to see if Sawtelle feels there are any corrections or additions he fells should be added to another edition.
Letter from Helen Street Ranney to Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • S.A. Eliot
  • 1924
Letter from Helen Street Ranney to Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
2 handwritten pages. Response to his letter to her about the possibility of printing another edition of The History Of Mount Desert and her transferral the copyright to Eliot. Discussion of her urging her brother to also forfeit the copyright of the book.
Letter between S.A. Eliot and Ferris Greenslot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • S.A. Eliot
  • 8/24/1925
Letter between S.A. Eliot and Ferris Greenslot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
2 typed pages Copy of a letter from S.A. Eliot, to Ferris Greenslot discussing the errors he feel are in the contract between Houghton Mifflin & Co and himself. He acknowledges he has the chapter and bibliography finished and has consulted with Sawtelle on needed changes. Eliot is waiting a response from Greenslot about the contract and copyright before he sends the new material.
Letter between Ferris Greenslot and S.A. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Houghton Mifflin & Co.
  • 3/31/1925
Letter between Ferris Greenslot and S.A. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 typed page Letter from Ferris Greenslot outlining their aceptance of Eliot's changes to the book and suggesting some changes to make the new text fit the size of the origional pages. There maybe a page missing from this letter.
Letter between Ferris Greenslot and S.A. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Houghton Mifflin & Co.
  • 8/26/1925
Letter between Ferris Greenslot and S.A. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 typed page Letter Ferris Greenslot stating that he feels S.A. Eliot could sign the orgional contract and that he would be happy to send a new contract to Eliot once he is back in Boston.
Letter between Ferris Greenslot and S.A. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • S.A. Eliot
  • 4/6/1926
Letter between Ferris Greenslot and S.A. Eliot
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 typed page Copy of a letter from S.A. Eliot and Greenslot covering the necessary changes to the new edition of the book: typo corrections, addition of an updated map, combination of chapters 7 & 8 into one, and renumbering of pages.
Letter (1927) from The Portland Evening Express Information Bureau
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Forts & fortifications
  • Other, Land
  • 1927
Description:
Letter (1927) from The Portland Evening Express Information Bureau in Washington, D.C. to Dr. R.L. Grindle of Mt. Desert, Maine, in reply to his request for information regarding the land on which Fort Knox in Bucksport, Maine is located on.
Letter (1925) to Stuart and Fred Smith
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other, Correspondence
  • Other, Friendship
  • 1925
Letter (1925) to Stuart and Fred Smith
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter (1925) to Stuart and Fred Smith of Somesville, Maine, from their friend, Warren S. Reeve during his stay in Berlin, Germany. On the back of Fred's letter is a copy of a sunday school sermon he wrote to the sunday scholars in Germany for Fred to deliver to the sunday school children in Somesville church. Both letters have wonderful descriptions of Germany and the surrounding areas.
Letter from Eliz. B. Smith to John Allen Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • 1923
Letter from Eliz. B. Smith to John Allen Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter concerns grading of property and plastering rooms, fixtures in bathroom, and more. Writer seems to be corresponding on behalf of her parents.
Letter from Samuel W. Smith Jr. to John Allen Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • 1923
Letter from Samuel W. Smith Jr. to John Allen Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter from Mr. Smith, Cincinnati, to John Allen Somes, Mt. Desert, concerning planting at cottage in Somesville; also enclosing check for $4,000.00. He also writes of a possible visit in Feb.
Whitmore to J.A.Somes concerning charge for auto delivery
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Whitmore, F.E.
  • 1924
Whitmore to J.A.Somes concerning charge for auto delivery
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter asks for payment of additional $4.00 to pay Boston and Maine Railroad for loading and blocking auto for shipment of the Ford Beach Auto.
From Hillsdale College to Nellie Whitmore
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • 1920
From Hillsdale College to Nellie Whitmore
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter from Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, to Nellie Whitmore, Seal Harbor, Maine stating that they had sent her a telegram telling that they had hired a teacher "to fill her position." Also expressing sorrow that she would not be with them and the hope that her "aunt will fully recover her health and strength." Includes envelope.