Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Date	Place	Rights
Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley exhibit opening invitation Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Events	Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	1976			Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley exhibit opening invitation Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1630 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Events Creator: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Date: 1976 Description: Invitation to a black tie dinner celebrating the opening of the exhibit Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pa. On the back page is a handwritten note from Barbara Tyson to Wendell.
Letter to Mrs. Otis D. Wolfe from Steven C. Rockefeller Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art People	Rockefeller - Steven C.	1992-06-01			Letter to Mrs. Otis D. Wolfe from Steven C. Rockefeller Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1199 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art People Creator: Rockefeller - Steven C. Date: 1992-06-01 Description: Letter to the donor of a bronze sculpture by Walther Matia in memory of Foster Whitlock . The letter thanks her for her donation of the sculpture to the museum and describes the dedication ceremony.
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Organizations, Civic	Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)	1982-02-19		Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1512 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Organizations, Civic Creator: Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Date: 1982-02-19 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	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People	Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)	1981-10-21		Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1202 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People Creator: Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Date: 1981-10-21 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 Gilley to Raymond L. Stearns Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Nature, Animals, Birds	Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)	1969-09-24		Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter from Wendell Gilley to Raymond L. Stearns Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1201 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Nature, Animals, Birds Creator: Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Date: 1969-09-24 Description: Letter acknowledging return of a bob-white carving as well as discussion of solder and advice on where to get bass wood. Also included are sketches of the leg and foot of a Canada goose.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving	Schuller - Thomas C.	1970-02-01		Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1210 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Creator: Schuller - Thomas C. Date: 1970-02-01 Description: This letter asks Gilley to repair one of a pair of herons that was damaged in a move.
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving	Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)	1982-03-17		Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1513 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Creator: Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Date: 1982-03-17 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 from Wendell H. Gilley to Capt. Benjamin H. Rigg, Oct. 26, 1964 Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving	Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)	1964-10-26		Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Capt. Benjamin H. Rigg, Oct. 26, 1964 Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1511 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Creator: Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Date: 1964-10-26 Description: Letter accompanied by a cardboard pattern of a spread tail grouse and a photograph of a belt grinder
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People	Wellington - C. G. (Clarence George) Wellington (1890-1960)	1957-03-04			Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1559 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People Creator: Wellington - C. G. (Clarence George) Wellington (1890-1960) Date: 1957-03-04 Description: Letter typed on Kansas City Star letterhead from Executive Editor Clarence G. Wellington thanking Wendell Gilley for carved birds sent on behalf of Frank S. Land.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Lemuel T. Ward, Nov. 8, 1965 Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Events People	Ward - Lemuel T. Ward (1896-1984)	1965-11-08			Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Lemuel T. Ward, Nov. 8, 1965 Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1565 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Events People Creator: Ward - Lemuel T. Ward (1896-1984) Date: 1965-11-08 Description: Lemuel T. Ward, the noted decoy carver, wrote this letter to Wendell Gilley after meeting him at an unnamed carving show
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People	Knight - Goodwin Knight (1896-1970)	1957-04-08			Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1558 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People Creator: Knight - Goodwin Knight (1896-1970) Date: 1957-04-08 Description: Thank you letter from the Governor of California thanking Wendell Gilley for a carving of a quail, which he placed on his desk in the Governor's Mansion.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People	Hoover - J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972)	1957-05-01			Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1557 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People Creator: Hoover - J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) Date: 1957-05-01 Description: Letter typed on FBI letterhead and signed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in gold ink thanking Wendell Gilley for the gift of carved bobwhites sent on behalf of Frank S. Land.
Letter to Steven C. Rockefeller from Nina Z. Gormley, March 16, 1990 Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Events Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving	Gormley - Nina Z. Gormley	1990-03-16			Letter to Steven C. Rockefeller from Nina Z. Gormley, March 16, 1990 Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1556 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Events Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Creator: Gormley - Nina Z. Gormley Date: 1990-03-16 Description: Letter regarding the possible exhibition of a Gilley piece in the Spirits and Nature Exhibition organized by Steven Rockefeller and held at Middlebury College. The piece was a carved and painted group of eiders made in 1970. Color slide transparency enclosed with letter
Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992 Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Nature, Animals, Birds Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving	Gormley - Nina Z. Gormley	1992-02-22			Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992 Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1481 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Nature, Animals, Birds Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Creator: Gormley - Nina Z. Gormley Date: 1992-02-22 Description: Letter thanking Fred Clark, President of Warren Tool Co., for promoting the Gilley Museum in its catalog. The letter also describes winter events at the museum as well as the museum's collection of taxidermy.
Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley. Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People	Land - Frank S. Land (1890-1959)	1956			Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley. Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1552 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People Creator: Land - Frank S. Land (1890-1959) Date: 1956 Description: Letter from the founder of the Order of Demolay, Frank S. Land, instructing Wendell Gilley to choose and send carvings to Harry S. Truman, Dr. Frank Stanton, president of CBS, Leon Leonidoff, producer of Radio City Music Hall shows, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and White House aide Bernard Shanley. The cost of the five carvings was $250.
Letter from Robert M. Peck to Wendell Gilley, March 1, 1977 Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Events	Peck - Robert M. Peck	1977-03-01		Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter from Robert M. Peck to Wendell Gilley, March 1, 1977 Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1240 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Events Creator: Peck - Robert M. Peck Date: 1977-03-01 Description: Letter congratulating Gilley on the success of the exhibition Downeast Bird Carvings of Wendell Gilley at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. On exhibit were sixty-one carvings of birds "on display together for the first time." 34, 272 people attended the exhibit during its ten week run from October 29, 1976 to January 7, 1977.
Letter to Wendell Gilley from Barbara Tyson Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Events	Tyson - Barbara Tyson	1977 c		Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter to Wendell Gilley from Barbara Tyson Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1241 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Events Creator: Tyson - Barbara Tyson Date: 1977 c Description: Letter thanking Wendell Gilley for the loan of his carvings for the exhibit Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Oct. 29, 1976 through Jan. 7, 1977
Letter to Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Places, Garden	Bancroft - Gertrude Storey Bancroft (1923-2002)	1989			Letter to Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1353 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Places, Garden Creator: Bancroft - Gertrude Storey Bancroft (1923-2002) Date: 1989 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 Nina Gormley from Norman Ashley Willock Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Nature, Animals, Birds Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving	Willock - Norman Ashley	1990-06-07		Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter to Nina Gormley from Norman Ashley Willock Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1203 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Nature, Animals, Birds Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Creator: Willock - Norman Ashley Date: 1990-06-07 Description: Letter concerning the packing and shipping of a pintail duck carving commissioned from Wendell Gilley by Norman Willock and returned to the museum for repair.
Letter from Raymond L. Stearns to Nina Gormley Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	People	Stearns - Raymond L.	1992-04-29		Copyright Undetermined	Letter from Raymond L. Stearns to Nina Gormley Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1200 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: People Creator: Stearns - Raymond L. Date: 1992-04-29 Description: Letter to the Museum Director about sending the museum copies of letters received from Wendell Gilley. Enclosed are two letters by Wendell Gilley to Mr. Stearns.
Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986 Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People	Silver - John A. Silver	1986-09-09		Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986 Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1410 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving People Creator: Silver - John A. Silver Date: 1986-09-09 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 Nina Gormley from Lucretia W. Evans Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Other	Evans - Lucretia W.			Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter to Nina Gormley from Lucretia W. Evans Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1204 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Other Creator: Evans - Lucretia W. Description: This letter expresses Lucretia Evans' intention to donate her copy of Wendell Gilley's book Bird Carving, a Guide to a Fascinating Hobby, which she believed might be a first edition.
Letter from Steven C. Rockefeller to Members of the Wendell Gilley Museum Nominating Committee Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	People	Rockefeller - Steven C.	1992-09-01			Letter from Steven C. Rockefeller to Members of the Wendell Gilley Museum Nominating Committee Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1198 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: People Creator: Rockefeller - Steven C. Date: 1992-09-01 Description: Letter concerning the proposed nomination of Arthur Rogers, Jr. for trustee of the museum by Jim Wallis
Note from Ted Madara to Nina Gormley Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Other People	Madara - Ted Madara			Copyright Not Evaluated	Note from Ted Madara to Nina Gormley Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1446 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Other People Creator: Madara - Ted Madara Description: Notecard reads "Dear Nina: We are lifelong summer residents of SWH and had the great fortune growing up to meet Wendell several times in his workshop while he was carving birds for my grandparents which we now cherish. My mother Linda Madara was asked by Downeast Magazine to write a story about Wendell and to photograph him and his carvings. We came across the text and original copy this summer and thought you may want it for the archives. Best regards, Ted Madara" Note accompanies a typescript of the magazine article, "Wendell Gilley - The Art of Fine Bird Carving" and photographic negatives. [show more]
Letter from Jack Ekstrom to Fred Clark, 1993 Wendell Gilley Museum	Document, Correspondence	Nature, Animals, Birds Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Other	Ekstrom - Jack Ekstrom	1993		Copyright Not Evaluated	Letter from Jack Ekstrom to Fred Clark, 1993 Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1445 Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Nature, Animals, Birds Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving Other Creator: Ekstrom - Jack Ekstrom Date: 1993 Description: Letter to the president of Warren Tool Co. from artist Ekstrom about an article and artwork of Wendell Gilley's chickadee for Popular Woodworking. Ekstrom describes how he had to carve the chickadee himself before he could finish the article.

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