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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Letter, 1802 December 26, Salisbury, to Judah Dana, Fryeburg, Me.

Title: Letter, 1802 December 26, Salisbury, to Judah Dana, Fryeburg, Me.

Accepts the charge of Fryeburg Academy as offered by the Trustees.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3084407 View

Osgood, Lucretia. Maine teaching certificates and letter, 1804-1866.

Title: Maine teaching certificates and letter, 1804-1866.

Teachers' certificates for Lucretia Osgood in the town of Albion, Me., and William Hunt, of Fryeburg Academy.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212414027 View

Davis family. Davis family papers, 1876-2007 and undated.

Title: Davis family papers, 1876-2007 and undated.

The collection includes photograph albums, loose photographs, and writings documenting the history of the African American Davis family in Hampton, Virginia from the 1930s to the 1950s as well as family members at later points; it also includes materials related to family history and genealogy that span the period from 1876 to the 1920s. Family members featured within the collection include William Roscoe Davis, Andrew Davis, Arthur P. Davis, Sr., Georgia Campbell Neal, Willie Louise Barbour Davis, Collis H. Davis, Sr., Georgia Louise Davis, Jennie Crosby Davis, Collis H. Davis, Jr., Thulani Davis, Anthony Davis, and Charles Sumner Stone, Jr. (Chuck). Educational institutions attended by family members and documented in the collection include Colby College, Fryeburg Academy, George P. Phenix School, and the Hampton Institute.

ArchivalResource: 1500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191749288 View

Peabody family. Correspondence, 1851-1915.

Title: Correspondence, 1851-1915.

Correspondence to and from various members of the Peabody family.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70976870 View

Barrows, Georgiana Souther, 1828-1914. Diary, 1842.

Title: Diary, 1842.

This volume consists of fifty-five handwritten pages of a daily diary kept by Georgiana, "... aged 13 and 10 mos.," from January to August 1842, and contains a stated purpose of practicing an "easy and familiar style" of writing as opposed to the artificial style called for in school (which in Georgiana's case was Fryeburg Academy). The volume is covered in a yellow paper book jacket on which is inscribed "My Journal. Touch not." Much of the journal has to do with school-Georgiana's lessons and the subjects taught: writing, poetry, Greek, French, Bible lessons, geography, as well as readings of original poetry and declamations composed by the "scholars" and, particularly, science, such as geometry, electrical phenomenon, the camera obscura, biology, steam engines, and apparatus and experiments in these fields. Other activities mentioned included meetings and lectures: temperance, phrenology, prayer, the annual meeting of the Maternal Society, as well as Sunday school, and dancing and singing lessons. There is a description of the July commencement weekend at Dartmouth College, George's graduation. While there she visited the libraries, a missionary society ("...There we saw Chinese work enough of every description ..."), medical facilities ("... It is not a very inviting sight to see some things in the museum ..."), and other places. The commencement orations and their speakers are briefly described and commented upon, as well as are other activities during the commencement period. A touching sentiment toward the man she would marry is given: "In the evening there was a concert by the Handel Society. Geo. Barrows invited me, so we went to the meeting house. I was struck with the alteration in G. from the shy & bashful boy to a polite and gentlemanly young man. The performance was very good. We went home and had ice cream and went to bed ..." At the back of the volume, in a different hand (probably that of George Bradley Barrows), are ten pages that contain the records of the Dartmouth College Debating Club, 1835, as well as a copy of William Cullen Bryant's poem entitled, "The Death of the Flowers." The records of the Debating Club include its constitution and by-laws, as well as rules on written exercises, meetings and exercises, fines and taxes, and number of members.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191274610 View

Kimball-Scott, Oliveanne, 1932-. Kimball-Scott collection, 1810-[ongoing].

Title: Kimball-Scott collection, 1810-[ongoing].

Correspondence, diaries, deeds, account books, scrapbooks, genealogies, cemetery records, photograph and autograph albums, store registers (1886-1917), and other papers, of members of the Kimball, Scott, and Lovell families, chiefly residents of Lovell, Me., Northborough, Mass., and Stockton, Calif. Subjects include Oliveanne's acvtivities as representative for Educational Foundation for Foreign Study and involvement with UNICEF and Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra; Fryeburg Academy, Fryeburg, Me.; activities of James Gilmore Scott, Jr. and his wife as members of the art and prison reform committees of Northborough Unitarian Church, and his duties as band director of Algonquin Regional High School, staff member of a summer camp in Sweden, Me., trustee of the public library in Northborough, and member of Worcester Symphony Orchestra; Stearns, Kimball & Walker (later Kimball & Walker), the grocery store in Lovell, partially owned by Fred Kimball; and the family homestead, now a museum in Lovell, known as Kimball Homestead.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70950245 View