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Letters to Bidding Contractors on New Museum Building Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Letters to Bidding Contractors on New Museum Building Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Two double sided typewritten sheets containing carbon copies of letters to bidding contractors on new museum building for MDI Historical Society. Letters inform contractors that a contractor had been chosen. | ||
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter mentions meetings of the Mount Desert Island Bird Club and MDI Hospital Auxiliary being held at the Gilley Museum. Enclosed with the letter is a Polaroid photo of an unpainted eagle carving. Wendell also mentions working on two life-size grouse . | |
Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Written on museum letterhead, this letter describes the opening of the Wendell Gilley Museum and mentions Wendell Gilley's donation of his carvings to the museum | |
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter mentions receiving a bird book from the Whitlocks. It also talks about working on carvings of an eagle with a fish and a ruffed grouse with spread tail and another taking off in flight. Enclosed with the letter are drawings of male and female swimming buffleheads. | |
Letter to Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft Wendell Gilley Museum Description: This letter is a reply to the Gilley Museum Director's request for a garden to be donated by the Garden Club of Mount Desert. It also mentions a carving of three gulls on a driftwood based that Mrs. Bancroft commissioned from Wendell Gilley. | ||
Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter describes Mr. Silver's visit to Elmer Crowell's workshop where he purchased several miniature bird carvings, and his subsequent visit to Wendell Gilley's workshop. Enclosed are photographs of a greater yellowlegs and a duck carved by Crowell. Silver also describes Wendell Gilley's trip to Abercrombie and Fitch where he was inspired to start bird carving. | |
Letter to the Wendell Gilley Museum from Sonia Cohn, Apr. 4, 1983 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to the Wendell Gilley Museum from Sonia Cohn, Apr. 4, 1983 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: The letter writer is asking for more information on Wendell Gilley after watching a Boston television program profiling him. She also mentions owning a Gilley carving of a mallard pair. | |
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., May 9, 1980 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., May 9, 1980 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Discusses carvings to be included in the museum collection. | |
Letter from James C. Collins to The Eider Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter from James C. Collins to The Eider Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the editor of the Wendell Gilley Museum's publication, The Eider, from James C. Collins after learning of Wendell Gilley's death |