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Bissell, W. H. A., Bishop. King-Hale-Douglass family papers, 1789-1941.

Title: King-Hale-Douglass family papers, 1789-1941.

Family and professional papers of the King, Hale, and Douglass families. King family papers include correspondence, accounts, and recipes. Correspondents include Cyrus King, brothers Rufus and William King, mother Mary Black King, and wife Hannah Storer King. Correspondence contains discussion of Cyrus' education, the Jay Treaty, and Cyrus' death and estate. Cyrus King's papers span his schooling, employment as secretary to Rufus King, then U.S. minister to Great Britain, legal career in Saco, Maine, and two terms in Congress, and include correspondence, addresses, and school essays. Rev. Benjamin Hale (son-in-law of Cyrus King) papers include family and professional correspondence, as well as lecture and sermon notes. The majority of Hale family correspondence is between Benjamin Hale and his brothers Moses, Josiah, and Thomas Hale, and includes letters from Benjamin's trip to St. Croix in 1836. Professional correspondence contains letters from R.H. Gardiner discussing the Gardiner (Me.) Lyceum, and letters to Rev. Kendrick Metcalf and Rev. W.H.A. Bissell about church business. Rev. Malcolm Douglass (son-in-law of Benjamin Hale) papers include family and professional correspondence, addresses, Sunday school records, and Norwich University records. Family correspondence includes letters between Malcolm and wife Sarah Hale Douglass and from their siblings, including letters from his 1887 trip to England. Douglass' professional correspondence and papers relate to his pastorates in the Episcopal Dioceses of Western New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont and his tenure as president of Norwich University. Correspondents include Bishops W.H. de Lancey and Carleton Chase, as well as Tiffany & Co. Tiffany letters discuss Norwich medals, and contain two pencil sketches. Also included is sign-in book for Camp "Mac El-Mo", a Douglass family-owned lodge in East Wareham, Massachusetts containing signatures and home cities and towns of visitors to the lodge from 1890-1941.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes and 2 cased vols

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