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Box 5

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Contains 21 Results:

Wendell Oliver published articles, with letters and Moses Head farm papers, 1936-1940, undated

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Includes Moses Head farm papers, Albany, New Hampshire, and the article he based on papers found in the abandoned Heald farm.

Dates: 1936-1940, undated

Wendell French Oliver memorial and memorabilia , 1953

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Published in Westonian. Poem by his widow after his death, business cards.

Dates: 1953

Emma Talbot Oliver (1871-1944) papers

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Third wife of William T. Oliver. Photo of her birthplace in Ohio. Letter copied by Annie Preston, to Miriam Oliver and her family which related the story of how Emma met William T. Oliver when attending a First Day Meeting of Conservative Friends, held at James W. Oliver's home. Handwritten essay description of Hicksites.

Manuscript of lecture by William B. Oliver, undated

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Presented to [Lynn Lyceum ?] on topic of astronomy. Also, a manuscript of a debate

Dates: undated

Poetry by William T. Oliver, 1898, 1914, undated

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Includes a handwritten manuscript of a poem describing climbing Mount Chocorua, New Hampshire. Published poem celebrating May Day 1914; undated Iona Lake poem with illustration

Dates: 1898, 1914, undated

Silhouettes of William W. Oliver and Gamaliel Oliver and miscellaneous

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William Wait Oliver was the brother of Gamaliel Wallis Oliver. He was nicknamed "Old Step-Over-to Lynn." Removed from frame; a typed anecdote on reverse signed by Israel B. Oliver, son of William Breed Oliver. Primitive black paper cut-out on foxed board. Also Lynn Directory and Register, 1841, which lists Oliver family members.