Description: Legal consent written by Hiram H. Condon for his 16 year old daughter, Harriet H. Condon to marry Willaim K. Hinton. Witnessed by Eugene M. Stanley, Town Clerk for Bernard, Maine.
Description: Singe page photocopy of partial article from "Sprague's Journal of Maine History", Vol. 14. Text describes the settlement of Mount Desert Island by Abraham Somes.
Description: Small leather covered birthday book given to Grace Spiker from Mary L Stearns. Book is in poor condition with detached cover. It is contained in a leather wallet labeled "La Rue Spiker Building Papers." Part of La Rue Spiker collection Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.067.14
Description: 1 typed page. Letter looking forward to their meeting in person at his house and that he is currently writing the bibliography. He also suggest a correction to page 19.
Description: 3 typed pages. Letter suggest ways to make changes be to Street's original book. He also makes mention that he feels a bibliography might be included at the end of the new edition. He also responds to Eliot's suggestion that he himself publishes a book on Mount Desert Island's history.
Description: 1 typed pages. Letter suggest changes be made to Street's account of Bernard's grant of Mount Desert. He also makes mention that he can send Eliot information on the original families that settled Somes Sound.
Description: 2 typed pages Letter about the upcoming publishing of a new edtion of the History of Mount Desert along with a form for George to sign transfering the rights to the plates of the origional book to Houghton Mifflin & Co.
Description: 2 typed pages Letter restating of the point of coversation that morning: -need to transfer the copyright. -chapters to be added and removed from the next edition -set up of royalties for Eliot and later George Street's heirs. -anticipated publishing date.
Description: 1 handwritten page Letter in which he relinquishes his rights to the plates for the book History of Mount Desert published by his late father.
Description: 1 typed page Letter from Houghton Mifflin Co to Eliot about a letter to Mrs. Hinckley about the need to correct errors in the origional History of Mount Desert before a new edition is published. Letter was sent from William O. Sawtelle to Mrs. Hinckley.
Description: 1 typed page Contact between Houghton Mifflin Co and S.A. Eliot covering copyrights and royalties for the next printing of Mount Desert: A History.
Description: 2 typed pages. This is a copy of a letter from S. A. Eliot to Sawtelle about Houghton Mifflin Company wanting to publish another edition of History of Mount Desert. The author of the letter is writing to see if Sawtelle feels there are any corrections or additions he fells should be added to another edition.
Description: 2 handwritten pages. Response to his letter to her about the possibility of printing another edition of The History Of Mount Desert and her transferral the copyright to Eliot. Discussion of her urging her brother to also forfeit the copyright of the book.
Description: 2 typed pages Copy of a letter from S.A. Eliot, to Ferris Greenslot discussing the errors he feel are in the contract between Houghton Mifflin & Co and himself. He acknowledges he has the chapter and bibliography finished and has consulted with Sawtelle on needed changes. Eliot is waiting a response from Greenslot about the contract and copyright before he sends the new material.
Description: 1 typed page Letter from Ferris Greenslot outlining their aceptance of Eliot's changes to the book and suggesting some changes to make the new text fit the size of the origional pages. There maybe a page missing from this letter.
Description: 1 typed page Letter Ferris Greenslot stating that he feels S.A. Eliot could sign the orgional contract and that he would be happy to send a new contract to Eliot once he is back in Boston.
Description: 1 typed page Copy of a letter from S.A. Eliot and Greenslot covering the necessary changes to the new edition of the book: typo corrections, addition of an updated map, combination of chapters 7 & 8 into one, and renumbering of pages.
Description: Article by Dr. R. L. Grindle about Toddy Pond and its historical and present day usage, father making log rafts to get logs to the mills, herediary greatness, ancestor Edmund Grindle and his son, back to talking about Toddy Pond.