Description: Two copies of printed poster announcing "Somesville Day" sponsored by the Village Improvement Society and the Mount Desert Historical Society. Year not specified.
Description: Typewritten agenda and handwritten notes of the Board of Directors of the MDI Historical Society meeting. Consideration of refusal of the proposed gift of the Virginia Somes Sanderson house and discussion of the future of the Society.
Description: Letter from Mrs. Alexander to Sanderson tendering her resignation from the MDI Historical Society Newsletter Committee and explaining her discontent with the operation of this committee.
Description: Letter from Nelson Leland to Betsy Alexander discussing problems within the MDI Historical Society in relation to the Society Newsletter. Four typewritten pages.
Description: Letter from Peladeau representing the Maine League of Historical Societies and Museums to Mrs. Alexander of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society commending the Society on the quality of its newsletter.
Ralph Stanley, President of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1981
Description: Handwritten letter from the MDI Historical Society thanking Virginia Somes Sanderson for her donation of funds for construction of a bridge over Somes Brook in Somesville between two MDI Historical Society buildings. Details of the bridge construction are noted in the letter.
Description: Typewritten letter from Sanderson concerning details of her proposed donation of money to fund construction of a bridge to connect old and new MDI Historical Society buildings in Somesville.
Emma Richards, Secretary, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1982
Description: Letter from the MDI Historical Society to Virginia Somes Sanderson thanking Sanderson for her gift of funds for construction of an arched footbridge between two buildings of the Historical Society in Somesville.. A resolution of the Society commending Dr. Sanderson and her book, "The Living Past" is also discussed in the letter.
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.
Description: Letter from Nelson F. Goodwin to Robert Heffner May 3, 1994 about the Somesville bridge construction. The letter also includes a copy of the plans for the footbridge.
Description: Letter from MDI Historical Society secretary, Winfield Sprague, to Helen Fernald notifying her of her appointment as a charter member of the Society.
Description: Photocopy of handwritten note and two photocopies of deed of land. This pertains to a land transfer from Emily Grindle to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society.
Description: Handwritten pages (2) and handwritten or typewritten fragments (3) containing information related to the history of the founding of the MDI Historical Society. The purpose of the Society is described here.