An important figure in the Farmington and Maine history communities, Richard Purington Mallett (1908-2005) was a graduate of Bowdoin College (1930), Washington and Lee (1933), who completed his doctoral dissertation at Yale University, Dick taught at Belmont Hill School and New Jersey State College before making a career with the CIA from 1946 to 1968. From 1968 to 1973 he returned to the University of Maine at Farmington to teach and write a substantial history of the college in l974. In 2000 Mallett was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by UMF. For a time the Malletts lived in Portland on Pine Street, in an apartment building with historian Elizabeth Ring as a neighbor. During the period of this correspondence Richard had returned to Farmington, after his wife's death, and was working on three books; The last 100 years : a glimpse of the Farmington we have known (1991), Two centuries of Farmington schools (1992), and The early years of Farmington (1994).
From the description of Richard P. Mallett correspondence, 1992-2008. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 262846936
