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You searched for: Subject: NatureType: DocumentType: Correspondence
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
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
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
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Object, Other Object
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-08-05
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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.
Fred C. Lynam to Frank B. Rowell Letter, March 11, 1924
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Nature
  • Other
  • Places, Park
  • Recreation
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Lynam, Fred C.
  • 1924-03-11
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Fred C. Lynam to Frank B. Rowell Letter, March 11, 1924
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
A letter from Fred C. Lynam to the secretary of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, Frank B. Rowell. Lynam disagrees with Senator George Wharton Pepper's objection to the proposed road construction project in Lafayette National Park. Lynam believes the road network is necessary for providing access to the park to those who cannot, or do not want, to hike. People Mentioned: George Wharton Pepper
George B. Dorr to Gist Blair Letter, April 10, 1925
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Nature
  • Places, Park
  • Dorr, George B.
  • 1925-04-10
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
George B. Dorr to Gist Blair Letter, April 10, 1925
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
Letter from George Dorr to Gist Blair regarding Blair's acceptance of the chairmanship of a committee. Dorr states he would like Blair's work to extend to the whole of conservation.
M. L. Peabody to Stephen Mather Letter, undated (Copy 1)
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Nature
  • Other
  • Places, Park
  • Recreation
  • Peabody, Marian Lawrence
  • Mount Desert Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
M. L. Peabody to Stephen Mather Letter, undated (Copy 1)
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
A letter from Harold Peabody to the director of the National Park Service, Stephen T. Mather. Peabody believes that he and Mather share a similar desire to see wild places conserved and is confident that Mather will see that the natural character of Mount Desert Island will be preserved by the National Park Service by not allowing further development of Lafayette National Park. People Mentioned: William C. Endicott
Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from Isabel Thacher
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • People
  • Thacher - Isabel
  • 1991
Description:
This letter describes three birds (a bobwhite, a yellowlegs, and a gull) carved by Wendell Gilley and owned by the letter writer, Isabel Thacher.