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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 to Mrs. Otis D. Wolfe from Steven C. Rockefeller Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Mrs. Otis D. Wolfe from Steven C. Rockefeller Wendell Gilley Museum 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 |
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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 to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller Wendell Gilley Museum 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 |
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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 from Wendell H. Gilley to Capt. Benjamin H. Rigg, Oct. 26, 1964 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Capt. Benjamin H. Rigg, Oct. 26, 1964 Wendell Gilley Museum 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 |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington Wendell Gilley Museum 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 Goodwin J. Knight Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight Wendell Gilley Museum 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 |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover Wendell Gilley Museum 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 |
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|  Letter to Steven C. Rockefeller from Nina Z. Gormley, March 16, 1990 Wendell Gilley Museum 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 |
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|  Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992 Wendell Gilley Museum 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 |
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|  Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley. Wendell Gilley Museum 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 Louise Marr regarding the estate of Bill Chamberlin's estate. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter from Louise Marr regarding the estate of Bill Chamberlin's estate. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A letter from Louise Marr about the estate of a man named Bill Chamberlin. She compares this to the managing of her sisters estate, and says "nothing the courts and lawyers do is done in a hurry." She then goes into farther detail with the pieces of property and how they will manage this. She ends the letter with a quote from the lawyers, and then adds her availability for the summer to manage this estate. | ||
| Letter from Louise Marr regarding the estate of Bill Chamberlin's estate. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Letter from Louise Marr regarding the estate of Bill Chamberlin's estate. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A letter from Louise Marr about the estate of a man named Bill Chamberlin. She compares this to the managing of her sisters estate, and says "nothing the courts and lawyers do is done in a hurry." She then goes into farther detail with the pieces of property and how they will manage this. She ends the letter with a quote from the lawyers, and then adds her availability for the summer to manage this estate. | ||
| Santa Christmas Card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Santa Christmas Card Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A Hawthorne and Sommerfield Christmas card that possibly dates back to the 1950s. The Inside of the card reads "Merry Christmas and A Bright and Happy New Year" |
| 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 Nina Gormley from Norman Ashley Willock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Nina Gormley from Norman Ashley Willock Wendell Gilley Museum 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 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 from Jack Ekstrom to Fred Clark, 1993 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Jack Ekstrom to Fred Clark, 1993 Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | |
| Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from Donald M. Fenner, August 26, 2001 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from Donald M. Fenner, August 26, 2001 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Describes Wendell Gilley's visit to Herkimer New York where in 1967 Fenner invited him to be guest speaker at the National Woodcarvers Association Woodcarving Show held there. This letter is accompanied by photos of Wendell Gillley at the show. | |
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, containing Wendell Gilley's pencil illustrations of carving knives and blades | |
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, December 2, 1979 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, December 2, 1979 Wendell Gilley Museum 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 |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | |
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Sherman L. Smith, November 9, 1961 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Sherman L. Smith, November 9, 1961 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter accompanying a photograph of the Bostitch Company lobby where Wendell Gilley's carving of terns were on display |