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Dateca. 1927
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  • Letters
  • Ink
  • Paper
  • South Orrington
Credit LineBequest of Mr. Eric Parkman Smith (2007)
Object number2008.10.75
DescriptionManuscript on paper. Letter to Eric Parkman Smith, from Helen and Betty. No date [no year]. Appears to date to his late High School years, perhaps his finishing year at Andover. Subjects: Aunt Mary, Betty, the Clark farm on Lexington Road was set on fire ("there was a man sleeping in the barn who woke up and saw the blaze and also a man running out of the farm"). Betty adds in the margin: "Eric you better destroy this letter, because I send so much love that the boys may be schocked [sic] or kid the life out of you."
Object number: D1118G
September 30, 1889
Object number: 2008.10.77
Margaret Farnham Smith
ca. 1927
Object number: D2052C
Mary Ann Nesbitt Bull Davis
September 22, 1868
Object number: 2000.19.2
A.W. [Alvin W.] Lamb
October 4, 1862
Object number: 2008.10.80
January 11, 1932
Object number: TH16.3
Sophia E. Thoreau
May 26, 1866
Object number: 2000.19.3
A.W. [Alvin W.] Lamb
July 23, 1862
Object number: 2008.20.54
Margaret Farnham Smith
ca. 1930
Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862)
Object number: TH33B
Edward Sidney (E.S.) Dunshee
1862
Object number: 2008.10.52
July 30, 1923
Object number: 2008.10.76
Margaret Farnham Smith
ca. 1927