A collection concerning an editor, legislator, educator, and agriculturalist of Maine. The correspondence folder contains a letter from Ezekiel Holmes to his brother, a copy of his last agricultural address, and a catalog of books sold by him. The folder also includes 3 photographs of the Holmes farm and letters from George M. Holmes, Sally F. Davis Chase, and Arthur A. Hauck. The second folder contains illustrations of Holmes Hall on the University of Maine campus, biographies of Holmes, a petition to the Governor of the State of Maine from inhabitants of Gardiner recommending Dr. Ezekiel Holmes to have charge of a proposed scientific survey of the state, and a book titled "Ezekiel Holmes : extracts from The Maine Farmer relating to the Holmes Library in the University of Maine Library : a sketch of his life from the Dictionary of American Biography : in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the University of Maine." The folio folder contains photostats of a series of articles in The Home Farm, published in Augusta, Maine, from June 12 to December 11, 1884. The articles describe Ezekiel Holmes's life and reproduce his correspondence and private journals.
