An engaging diary kept by a student at the Maine State Seminary (later known as Bates College) who then transferred to Waterville College (later known as Colby College) offering intimate portraits of both schools in the mid-19th century. Bonney’s diary commences on January 18, 1859, on which day he remarks.....
![Item #2100 [Manuscript Journal of a Boston Merchant]. Ralph Haskins](/pictures/thumb/2100_1.jpg?v=1560463139)
Manuscript journal of a Boston merchant—an uncle of Ralph Waldo Emerson—illuminating trade, shipping, and life in Boston during the early years of the American republic. Ralph Haskins, born in Boston on April 5, 1779, was apprenticed to Theodore Lyman, a well-established merchant, at a time when Boston was a......
![Item #5163 [Journal of a Harvard student and teacher at Phillips Academy, Andover.] Diary from...](/pictures/thumb/5163_1.jpg?v=1591192443)
A journal kept by noted Ipswich, Massachusetts minister David T. Kimball during his final year of studies at Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School, and a year of teaching at Phillips Andover Academy. Rev. David Tenney Kimball (1782–1860) was a prominent abolitionist and Pastor of the First Parish in.....
Two manuscript journals in one volume of Maine ship captain Josiah Mitchell (1812?–1876), best known as Captain of the burned and sunken ship Hornet, famously described by Mark Twain in the Sacramento Daily Union in 1866. Documented in these sea journals are the two angst-filled final voyages of Captain.....
A lively travel diary kept over a span of thirteen months, documenting a Pennsylvania man’s trips to Massachusetts, Maine, and Indiana. Born in Norridgewock, Maine, Dr. Elias Morse Pierce (1824–1911) practiced dentistry in Pennsylvania throughout much of his life. At the time of this journal he was living in.....
![Item #5162 [A Massachusetts doctor’s daybook.]. Doctor Richard](/pictures/thumb/5162_1.jpg?v=1572624618)
A brief but striking account of a widowed doctor’s visit to his wife’s tomb to look upon her once more, recorded in his daybook. Kept by a doctor with the surname Richard in Braintree, Massachusetts, this day book consists mainly of entries relating to his medical practice (primarily the.....
A rare journal kept by a white officer partly documenting his two years of service with the 33rd U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment with references to the activities of other African American regiments as well. Born in Maine, Enoch W. Robbins (1827–1907) lived in Searsport, Maine before being mustered into the.....
![Item #7036 [Business archive of New Hampshire mill owner Alfred I. Sawyer.]. Alfred I. Sawyer](/pictures/thumb/7036_1.jpg?v=1631726193)
A substantive archive of New Hampshire mill-owner Alfred I. Sawyer including extensive business correspondence, a journal documenting his business operation in 1841, and more; taken as a whole, the archive documents Sawyer’s operation of the mill conglomerate from the 1820s to his death in 1849, as well as the afterlife.....