Box 2
Container
Contains 40 Results:
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, September 2, 1866
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 49
Scope and Contents
Written from Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Opens "My Dear Grace." Encloses a new photo and asks for hers. Describes their grape crop and the weather. Envelope postmarked at Vineland, September 4. Addressed to "Miss Grace D. Nichols, Rockland, Maine."
Dates:
September 2, 1866
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, September 1866
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 50
Scope and Contents
Written from Lambertville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Opens "Dear Friend Grace." Thanks her for the "gem pic" and asks if it was taken "as a likeness of yourself." Describes a sociable he attended and wishes he was at Rockland to visit. Encloses a flower, the outline of which is visible.Envelope postmarked at Lambertville, September 18. Addressed to "Miss Grace Nichols, Rockland, M[?]", partially torn away. Written in pencil to the left, "Try Maine." Various algebraical...
Dates:
September 1866
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, October 7, 1866
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 51
Scope and Contents
Written from Phalanx, Red Bank, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Opens "Dear Friend Grace." Describes his travel to school at Red Bank, where his former principal from Carversville had begun a school, and that he had stained his fingers collecting black walnuts. Writes about his visits to the state fair at Trenton and a steel pen factory in Camden.
Dates:
October 7, 1866
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, November 1866
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 52
Scope and Contents
Written from Phalanx, Red Bank, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Opens "Friend Grace." He writes he is "happy to hear you thought best to change your name I can truly say I wish you a long and happy life." He confirms that Celia is married but that he has no thought of it, but does think of settling down to work so that he can have some spending money. He sends love to Lizzie Cobb "and I would say to Miss Nichols but I don't know where she is."Envelope postmarked at Red Bank,...
Dates:
November 1866
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, January 12, 1872
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 53
Scope and Contents
Written from 224 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois. Opens "My Dear Friend." Notes that the letter was forwarded from Vineland and that he did think Grace was going to stop writing to him. He says that people who see his picture in his album constantly remark that she is the "best-looking of any in the book." He reports that he has been copying burnt books since he got to Chicago, and that his brother and others were burnt out with the fire "but saved most of their books & papers...
Dates:
January 12, 1872
Henry Paine letter of recommendation for Grace D. Nichols, July 15, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 54
Scope and Contents
A letter of recommendation for Grace D. Nichols written by Henry Paine, noting that she had been "under my instruction for several terms." He declares her "well qualified to give correct and proper instruction in the various branches of learning, usually taught in our public schools." Envelope addressed "Miss Grace D. Nichols."
Dates:
July 15, 1865
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, August 1, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 56
Scope and Contents
Written from Belfast, Maine. Opens "Cousin Grace." Reports that her letter of late July was received the previous day via "Uncle Kelly." Answers various questions asked in her letter, including that he would like to play a game of "Hop Leaves." He continues "Probably you have heard of the Rebel Congressman Foote's speech wishing for some secluded, sequestered spot free from taxation, and away from mankind, now if he will only come up here to Mr. Benj....
Dates:
August 1, 1865
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, August 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 57
Scope and Contents
Written from Belfast, Maine. Opens "Cousin Grace Darling." Dated "Aug. Friday (Sometime after yours was recd I don't know the day of the month) A. D. 1865." This could be August 25, making the partially illegiable postmark August 28. He writes that he is afraid of certain threats and that he would fear to come into Rockland except at night and to the North End. He and Mollie [perhaps a sister?] both request her picture, and he has made her another ring. He asks if Grace...
Dates:
August 1865
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, August 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 58
Scope and Contents
Written from Belfast, Maine. Dated "August near September Eighteen Hundred and November." Opens "Dear Cousin." He says that he will keep writing until she tells him to stop, and says he thought it was understood when he left Rockland that they would be allowed to correspond, and that receiving letters will help keep him from "going to the Lunatic Asylum." He reports that he went to Searsport that afternoon and met several people, including one man "who calls himself a brother Reb. I guess he...
Dates:
August 1865
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, August 29, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 60
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Written from Belfast, Maine. Opens "Dear Cousin Gracie Darling Nichols." Reports receipt of her letter of August 26, 1865. He reports that "Deberer Brown" is visiting and expects her to return to Rockland shortly. He had attended a Methodist camp-meeting the previous night with "Cousin Lizzie and Debrer." He has been to have his "phiz" but he did not like it and was planning to go again. He plans to visit Rockland that winter for sleighing. Of those he met in Searsport he says "they were all...
Dates:
August 29, 1865