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Box 4

 Container

Contains 34 Results:

Miscellaneous Notes - 5, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Various handwritten notes, several programs. Some related to Litchfield and some not.

Dates: Other: undated

Miscellaneous Notes - 6, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

One of the notes is about George Switzer, a poem, a note that says"Illustrated letter to Esther Thompson from former schoolmate Miss Abby Hull" [See correspondence].

Dates: Other: undated

Miscellaneous Notes - 7, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

Blacks, Temperance, Woodbrigde. Various notes, some transcribed letters to William H. Thompson, notes on various people. Copied materials rang from late 1700s-1800s. Information on slavery/blacks in Litchfield.

Dates: Other: undated

"Around the Green", 1926

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Clippings from the Litchfield Enquirer. Full title: "Around the Green: Interesting Reminiscences of Old Litchfield by Miss Esther Thompson"

Dates: Other: 1926

"Childhood Memories of the Civil War", 1912

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Appeared in the Waterbury American. Full title: "Childhood Memories of Civil War Times: Intensity of War feeling in Old Litchfield." Only has part four.

Dates: Other: 1912

"Life in Old Litchfield", 1906

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Clippings and envelope with the following inscription: "Newspaper Clippings - Loose in Scrap Book Miss Esther Thompson." Belongs with Mrs. Kilbourn's Scrap Books. Full title: "Life in Old Litchfield. History and Gossip of People and Events Through Two Centuries". (Esther Harriet Thompson in Waterbury American)

Dates: Other: 1906

"Trading in Old Litchfield", 1929

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Text from paper written and read by Esther Thompson at a Woman's Forum meeting. Published in the Litchfield Enquirer. Some parts may be missing.

Dates: Other: 1929

"Yards and Gardens", 1927 May

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Text from paper written and read by Esther Thompson at a Woman's Forum meeting. Published in the Litchfield Enquirer. Some parts may be missing.

Dates: Other: 1927 May

Debates, 1874

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

All in same handwriting (Esther's?) but may have been written by/for Ella M. Philips, Esther Thompson, and Emma Keeler.

Dates: Other: 1874

Essay - "Benjamin Franklin (No. 7)" by "C. O. D." age 13 years , circa 1904

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Litchfield High School Competition - Prize Essay Winner.

Dates: Other: circa 1904