Box 47

Scope and Contents A collection of material from the papers of historian Albert Smyth including five volumes of handwritten travel journals, octavo size in black oilcloth bindings, together with approximately 56 pieces of ephemera including various notes describing research, dinners, and socializing, and a small collection of reading room slips from Smyth’s visit to the British Museum (Library) in August of 1901. The diaries largely detail Smyth’s summer travel in Europe, including research and social events...

Scope and Contents Approximately 130 letters and other assorted ephemera associated with American poet and diplomat John James Piatt dated between 1880 and 1917. The majority of the collection is made up of correspondence sent from Piatt to his friend Alexander Hill, an editor at Robert Clarke & Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, to whom Piatt’s book Little New-world Idyls (1893) is dedicated. Also included are two letters from Piatt’s children Frederick and Marian, as well as several pieces of printed ephemera,...

Scope and Contents 23 Highway Surveyor’s booklets with notes by a variety of surveyors in the town of Harrison, Maine between 1850 and 1867. There is one outlier: a later booklet from the town of Somerville, Maine in 1899. Along with the lined pages for notes, each booklet contains a printed essay titled “The Power and Duty of Surveyors of Highway.” The booklets are bound with string and have covers in multiple colors including white, brown, blue, yellow, and red. Of particular note is the book created by...