Box 11

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Two letters from a friend with handwritten transcript, typed transcript, and transcript of a fragment of a third.

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Mansucript album from Oak Grove Seminary, Vassalboro, Maine.

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Vol. 1, number 20 and Vol. 14, number 1: "Gems of Thought we gather for mutual improvement." Mansucript journals of essays and poems by the Ladies of Oak Grove Seminary, Vassalboro, Maine.

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Manuscript poem written for Mary H. Howland with typed transcript

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Compiled by David Brinton. Includes a deed search, manuscript copy of Joseph Howland’s indenture concerning the property, miscellaneous notes and newspaper clipping.

Scope and Contents Includes “Memoranda of my beloved wife, Mary H. Brinton.” Mary H. Brinton died in 1870 shortly after the birth of her fifth child. The manuscript was sewed into acidic, water-stained corrugated cardboard covers, probably compiled by David Brinton, son of Mary and grandfather of the donor. Mary Howland taught school in the home of Jesse and Mary Ann Tucker in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. In Mary’s memoir, she suffered her first hemorrhages in 1857 and was forced to give up teaching, but was...

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Copied into a fragment of David Brinton's journal. David was a schoolmate of Jesse R. Tucker, the son of Jesse Tucker, who died 1928. The memorial was included within cover of Joseph Brinton's Auto-graphic Memoirs, compiled by his son, David Brinton.