Diary of Austin M. Leavens : for summer of 1902 in the state of Maine. 1902.

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Leavens, Austin M. Diary of Austin M. Leavens : for summer of 1902 in the state of Maine.

Diary of Austin M. Leavens : for summer of 1902 in the state of Maine. 1902.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86078721

A diary kept by Leavens while a student at Mount Hermon School for Boys in Northfield, Mass. The diary records activities during a summer that he and fellow student Walter C. Simpson of Greensboro, Vermont, spent as cooking ware salesmen in various Maine towns. Writing in a humorous manner, Leavens outlines their daily activities, what they sold, and how they traveled to such communities as Brunswick, Augusta, Hallowell, Waterville, Oakland, Madison, Gardiner, and Randolph, Maine.

1 v. ; 21 cm.

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