Box 2
Container
Contains 40 Results:
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, September 8, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents
Written from Belfast, Maine. Opens "Sweet Coz." Reports that someone had written him that Grace's mother had read his last letter and "positively forbid your corresponding with me any more. I had serious thoughts of committing 'Susan Side,' if such was realy the case, but your letter has driven all such notions out of my head and I am once more a rational being." He asks if she enjoyed her trip to Rockville acknowledges that her school had recommenced. Describes breaking...
Dates:
September 8, 1865
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, October 1, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 61
Scope and Contents
Written from Belfast, Maine. Dated "Oct: the ons't." Opens "My Dear Coz." Encloses a photograph.
Dates:
October 1, 1865
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, October 15, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 62
Scope and Contents
Written from Belfast, Maine. Opens "Dear Cousin Gracie." Notes that she has not acknowledged receiving his note. Offers as reasons for not writing "sickness, absence, want of time, expecting to go to Rockland to answer it verbally and a great many others 'too numerous to mention.'" Writes that he has not framed her photo and hung it over his bed, but "have tied it around my neck with a piece of blue ribbon do you not think that a good deal...
Dates:
October 15, 1865
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, October 30, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 63
Scope and Contents
Written from Belfast, Maine. Opens "My Dear Coz." Writes that he had started for Rockland three times and not managed to get there for various reasons. He had been to singing school that evening and since then had written three letters, two to Richmond and one to Ohio "for an Irishman that works here for Uncle Kelly." He is not sure whether "my folks" will come during the winter. Complains of being very cold.Envelope postmarked at Belfast, October 31. Addressed to "Miss Grace D....
Dates:
October 30, 1865
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, November 10, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 64
Scope and Contents
Written from Belfast, Maine. Dated "Belfast, Nov 10th Eighteen Hundred and Half Froze to Death." Opens "Dear Coz." He expresses surprise that she would care what people think of them corresponding: "I thought you had more courage than to back out at this stage of the game what do you care what people say ... so just keep a stiff uper lip, hold your head high and let them say what they please." He reports that Mary is ironing on one side of the table as he writes on the other. He reports on a...
Dates:
November 10, 1865
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, November 26, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 65
Scope and Contents
Written from Belfast, Maine. Opens "My Dear Gracie." Reports that he goes to singing school two evenings and week, and another evening to the sociable, and works every day from "daybreak until night." He says he does not care a fig for what Desire thinks, but agrees that Grace can show his letters to her mother, but to no one else: "I am afraid you have one confidant to many in Rockland, for your own good I shant call the persons name but will leave you to guess...
Dates:
November 26, 1865
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, December 2, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 66
Scope and Contents
Written from Belfast, Maine. Opens "My Dear Gracie." Complains of going to church other than "to find out something to talk about to Uncle Kelly that will please him for he is all the time growling (if you know what that means for Yankees are very dull of comprehension) he growls all the week and sunday for a rarity, as you may guess how pleasant it is to have him around." Reports having helped butcher a cow and pig the day before and that he is...
Dates:
December 2, 1865
Robert Rankin to Grace D. Nichols, January 14, 1866
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 67
Scope and Contents
Written from Belfast, Maine. Opens "Dear Cousin Grace." Acknowledges the receipt of her present on January 10. Apologizes for the delay due to "business, singing school dances &c." Assures her it is highly treasured and sends his respects to her mother.
Envelope postmarked at Belfast, January 23. Addressed to "Miss Grace D. Nicholls, Rockland, Maine." "In a hurry" is written in the lower left corner.
Dates:
January 14, 1866
Waldo P. Lowell, Jr. to Grace D. Nichols, February 2[?], 1866
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 68
Scope and Contents
Written from North Bucksport, Maine. Opens "Dear Cousin." Assures her they are not forgotten. Reports that Mr. Collins is his teacher and that he had attended school three weeks "down in Uncles District." He has a "nice pair of steers and a nice sled for them," and had "hauled a load of wood for Uncle" the previous day. He writes that Fannie is writing to Ruth, who is is Orland teaching school, and that the ice is thick but snow-covered, preventing skating. His parents are preparing to go to...
Dates:
February 2[?], 1866
Unmatched Envelopes
File — Box: 2, Folder: 69-70
Scope and Contents
Thirteen envelopes unmatched to letters in the collection. Five envelopes are from Henry P. McCahill, being addressed to "Miss Grace D. Gillson" at either Box 222 or Box 302 in Rockland, Maine. Four of these are postmarked at Washington, D.C., but the dates are obscured or torn away.
Four envelopes are from John Porcius Gage, all addressed to "Miss Grace D. Nichols, Rockland, Maine." One is postmarked at Carversville, May 15 [likely 1866] and does not match a letter date. Two...
Dates:
1864 - 1920, bulk 1864 - 1866