Handwritten in ink; no date given, but note from Harriet Somes Sanderson says was written by her father, Thaddeus, when a schoolboy. He went to East Corinth Academy in 1846 at age 7. Thaddeus Shaply Somes was born on April 2, 1839.
“Essay on Education by Thaddeus Somes,” Mount Desert Island Historical Society, accessed May 14, 2024, https://mdihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/16255.Item 16621
