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You searched for: Date: 1970s✖Type: Document✖Type: Correspondence✖
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, December 2, 1979
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1979-12-02
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, December 2, 1979
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1438
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
Creator:
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
Date:
  • 1979-12-02
Description:
Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, discussing carving knives and blades
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1978-11-17
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1437
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
Creator:
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
Date:
  • 1978-11-17
Description:
Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, concerning wood carving tools and ways of holding tools on a work bench. Also mentioned is a grouse carving loaned to Harry Meech, one of the founders of the National Carvers Museum.
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1976
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence, Greeting Card
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Bragdon - Addie (Bragdon) Gilley (1905-1983)
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1976
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1976
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1413
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Greeting Card
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
Creator:
  • Bragdon - Addie (Bragdon) Gilley (1905-1983)
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
Date:
  • 1976
Description:
Christmas card featuring a carved barn owl on a piece of driftwood. Signed "Addie & Wendell Gilley." Marked "Xmas 1976" on reverse side of card
letter from William to Harriet and Paul
Tremont Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • 1/12/1971
letter from William to Harriet and Paul
Tremont Historical Society
Identifier:
  • ths-1854
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Date:
  • 1/12/1971
Description:
long interesting letter, written in thanks for Christmas gifts sent by Harriet and Paul. Gives some work history, talks about his success in playing the "numbers", and how that worked. He sometimes heard voices telling him which numbers to play! He describes himself as "not a gambler but strictly an investor".
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1970-05-25
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1220
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1970-05-25
Description:
Thank you letter for a gift of a carved pair of ruffed grouse
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1972-03-29
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1221
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1972-03-29
Description:
Letter discusses publishing Gilley's book in a limited edition as well as including a photograph of Gilley with an osprey as an insert. It also mentions a carving of an owl and another of a bobwhite quail on a hatchet.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Object, Other Object
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1970-06-10
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1218
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Object, Other Object
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1970-06-10
Description:
Letter describing the making of 36 duck decoys.. O'brien also mentions picking up a finished woodcock from Gilley.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Other
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-05-11
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1207
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Other
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1971-05-11
Description:
Letter discusses sending text, artwork, and photos for the book, Art of Bird Carving, to Byron Cheever. Flying goose, bob-white and blue quail carvings are also mentioned.
Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Belton Kleberg (B. K.) Johnson, May 6, 1971
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-05-06
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Belton Kleberg (B. K.) Johnson, May 6, 1971
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1355
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1971-05-06
Description:
Letter describes a carving of a blue quail and bobwhite purchased by Johnson
Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Wendell H. Gilley, June 10, 1971
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-06-10
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Wendell H. Gilley, June 10, 1971
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1351
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Other
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1971-06-10
Description:
This letter accompanied O'Brien's submission of his draft foreword to Gilley's book The Art of Bird Carving
Jordan Pond House Fund
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Jordan Pond House Fund
  • September 1979
Jordan Pond House Fund
Northeast Harbor Library
Identifier:
  • nehl-7207
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
Creator:
  • Jordan Pond House Fund
Date:
  • September 1979
Description:
Letter of appeal for fundraising sent by the Jordan Pond House Fund in order to raise funds for the new Jordan Pond House following the fire of 1979. Committee for the Fund: Mrs. Vincent Astor Frederick T. Brown William C. Elliott, Jr. Mrs. Allison F. Fleitas Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Mrs. Raymond F. Hawtin Thomas B. McCabe Carlo Ninfi David Rockefeller Mrs. Charles K. Savage Mrs. R. Amory Thorndike Robert W. Patterson, chairman
Letter to Gertrude Fay from Charles Savage
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Businesses, Farming
  • Events, Fire
  • People
  • 11/23/1973
Letter to Gertrude Fay from Charles Savage
Northeast Harbor Library
Identifier:
  • nehl-1800
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Businesses, Farming
  • Events, Fire
  • People
Date:
  • 11/23/1973
Description:
Letter and a bill (related to framing) to Mrs. Fay from Charles Savage. Includes remarks about the fire which destroyed Augustus Phillips workshop and about Charles's trip to California, etc. Related to ART 0025
Letter to Byron Cheever from Wendell H. Gilley, April 29, 1971
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1971-04-29
Letter to Byron Cheever from Wendell H. Gilley, April 29, 1971
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1329
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Other
Creator:
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
Date:
  • 1971-04-29
Description:
Wendell suggests carvings he had on hand that could be photographed to illustrate his book. Birds he suggests are: bob white quail, scaled quail, flock of 7 Canada geese, pair of Wilson snipe, pair of grouse, single woodcock, several miniature birds of all types, great blue heron with trout in mouth, group of three pintails, life size eagle, pair of life size wood duck, spotted sandpiper on mussel shell, life size pileated woodpecker, pair of eagles with two babies in nest. [show more]
Letter From Byron Cheever to Wendell H. Gilley
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other
  • Cheever - Byron Cheever
  • 1971-04-08
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter From Byron Cheever to Wendell H. Gilley
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1213
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Other
Creator:
  • Cheever - Byron Cheever
Date:
  • 1971-04-08
Description:
Photocopy from the original by Byron Cheever listing questions he had regarding publishing Gilley's book. Gilley's answers as dictated to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. are in pencil after each question.
Letter From Byron Cheever to Wendell H. Gilley
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other
  • Cheever - Byron Cheever
  • 1971-04-03
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter From Byron Cheever to Wendell H. Gilley
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1328
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Other
Creator:
  • Cheever - Byron Cheever
Date:
  • 1971-04-03
Description:
Original letter from Byron Cheever, Publisher of North American Decoys, expressing Cheever's willingness to publish Wendell Gilley's book and asking questions about publication and printing details.
Letter from Lillis Joy to Phoebe Milliken
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • People
  • 1978
Letter from Lillis Joy to Phoebe Milliken
Northeast Harbor Library
Identifier:
  • nehl-1835
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • People
Date:
  • 1978
Description:
Personal note from Lillis Joy to Phoebe Milliken about health, family, and holiday.
Letter from T. Destry Jarvis to William J. Whalen
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Places, Park
  • 12/30/1977
  • Acadia National Park
Letter from T. Destry Jarvis to William J. Whalen
Northeast Harbor Library
Identifier:
  • nehl-1645
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Places, Park
Date:
  • 12/30/1977
Place:
  • Acadia National Park
Description:
Acadia National Park boundaries
Letter from Nathaniel Rand to Charles W. Eliot
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Places, Park
  • 10/4/1971
  • Acadia National Park
Letter from Nathaniel Rand to Charles W. Eliot
Northeast Harbor Library
Identifier:
  • nehl-1637
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Places, Park
Date:
  • 10/4/1971
Place:
  • Acadia National Park
Description:
Acadia National Park boundaries
Letter from Sarah M. Bates to Charles W. Eliot
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Places, Park
  • 11/30/1977
  • Acadia National Park
Letter from Sarah M. Bates to Charles W. Eliot
Northeast Harbor Library
Identifier:
  • nehl-1643
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Subject:
  • Places, Park
Date:
  • 11/30/1977
Place:
  • Acadia National Park
Description:
Acadia National Park boundaries
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Places, Island
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1970-06-04
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1216
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Places, Island
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1970-06-04
Description:
Letter describing O'Brien's sailing trip around Buckle Island, Swans Island and others and the eiders and ospreys he saw. This letter also mentions Gilley's idea for a museum.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Vise
  • People
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-04-23
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1215
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Vise
  • People
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1971-04-23
Description:
This letter thanks Gilley for sending a vise. O'Brien also encloses correspondence with Byron Cheever about publishing Gilley's book.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-04-29
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1205
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1971-04-29
Description:
This letter acknowledges receipt of a letter and chisel from Gilley, and discusses various carvings including a spotted sandpiper on a mussel shell and two pairs of quail
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Object, Other Object
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-08-05
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1219
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Object, Other Object
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1971-08-05
Description:
O'Brien acknowledges receipt of a spotted sandpiper carving from Gilley and discusses a handle Gillely designed for an X-Acto blade as well as decoy designs.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-05-06
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1206
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Other
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1971-05-06
Description:
This letter discusses correspondence between Wendell Gilley and Byron Cheever, author and magazine publisher, about Gilley's book. The author of the letter makes suggestions about paper and cover art and discusses copyright.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-04-15
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Identifier:
  • wgm-1212
Type:
  • Document, Correspondence
Subject:
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
Creator:
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Date:
  • 1971-04-15
Description:
Note from O'Brien included with a copy of a letter from Byron Cheever. O'Brien mentions having been asked by Peggy Rockefeller if Gilley would sell her a flock of geese.