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Charles Benjamin Merrill diary
- Title
- Charles Benjamin Merrill diary, 1844-1847.
- Author
- Merrill, Charles Benjamin.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 1972 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- .21 linear foot (1 volume)
- Summary
- Charles Benjamin Merrill kept this diary from April 14, 1844-July 22, 1847 while he was a student at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and during vacations at home in Portland, Maine. Entries refer to lectures and teachers; sermons, often mentioning names of preachers; fraternity activities; social life; part time library work; sports; concerts; weather conditions; trips to Boston, Cambridge, Concord, Hanover, and other locations; commencement exercises; politics, including a mention of President James K. Polk's visit to Portland on July 2, 1847; and other topics.
- Subjects
- Diaries
- Bowdoin College
- Polk, James K (James Knox), 1795-1849
- Portland (Me.) > Social life and customs
- College students > Maine > Social life and customs
- Education > New England > 19th century
- College students > Maine > Brunswick > Diaries
- Brunswick (Me.) > Social life and customs
- Merrill, Charles Benjamin > Diaries
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Access (note)
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Call Number
- MssCol 1972
- OCLC
- 751996977
- Author
- Merrill, Charles Benjamin.
- Title
- Charles Benjamin Merrill diary, 1844-1847.
- Restricted Access
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 1972