Guide to the Kenneth C.M. Sills Collection , 1816-2014, undated (bulk 1874-1978)
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Kenneth C. M. Sills Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on December 5, 1879, Kenneth Charles Morton Sills moved a year later to Portland, Maine, with his parents, Charles Morton and Elizabeth Sills. Educated at Portland High School and Bowdoin College, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1901 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sills earned his masters from Harvard in 1903 and the same year was appointed instructor in English and classics at Bowdoin. Sills accepted a position as a tutor in English at Columbia for the 1904-1905 school year and in 1906 returned to Bowdoin to assume an assistant professorship in Latin. From 1907 to 1946 he was Winkley Professor of Latin Language and Literature and was successively dean from 1910 to 1918, acting president in 1917-1918, and president from then until his retirement in 1952.
On November 21, 1918, Sills married Edith Lansing Koon, a 1911 graduate of Wellesley College and former high school teacher; she received an honorary degree from Bowdoin in 1952 for her work at the College.
Sills himself received ten honorary degrees, numerous awards, including the Denmark Medal of Liberation in 1946 and the Bowdoin Prize in 1948, and he was a trustee of six colleges and schools, including Wellesley, Athens College in Greece, and the Episcopal Theological School. He was a delegate to many congresses of the Protestant Episcopal Church, a member of the Board of Visitors of the United States Naval Academy, and was chairman of the board of the Carnegie Foundation from 1939 to 1941. As an author he published a book of poems entitled The First American and Other Poems, and he also wrote the lyrics to the song "Rise, Sons of Bowdoin." Sills died in Portland on November 15, 1954.
Consists of more than 20,000 manuscript items relating to Bowdoin's eighth president and his wife, including correspondence, addresses, citations, and other materials relating to Sills's presidency of the College. Also included are greeting cards and invitations received by Kenneth and Edith Sills, as well as class notes, photographs, awards and degrees, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. Of particular note is the Sills tablecloth, signed by various luminaries visiting the College and later embroidered, and numerous pieces of correspondence from every United States president from Wilson to Truman. For related materials, see the Kenneth C.M. Sills Administrative Records.
For related materials, see the Kenneth C.M. Sills Administrative Records.
Consists of personal and some professional correspondence of both Kenneth and Edith Lansing Koon Sills, with the bulk of the materials being letters received and the private correspondence of KCMS. Early family correspondence includes numerous private letters from Kenneth to Edith, as well as inauguration and engagement congratulations and corresspondence from students, family, and Bowdoin faculty in World War I. President Sills's professional correspondence concerns both his work for the College, ranging from such subjects as student behavior and the College sesquicentennial in 1944 to the renovations to 85 Federal Street, and his positions on the Board of Visitors for the United States Naval Academy, the Carnegie Foudation, and his interest in the League of Nations. Notable correspondents include Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Wallace, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, Robert Frost, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Margaret Chase Smith, Ralph Owen Brewster, Robert Hale, Percival Baxter, Harold Hitz Burton, William Butler Yeats, and Bowdoin faculty and board members Thomas Van Cleve, Roscoe J. Ham, William J. Curtis, E.P. Mitchell, and Paul Nixon.
The correspondence of Edith Sills consists almost entirely of letters received, mostly of a personal nature. Particularly prevalent are letters from fellow Wellesley graduates, including life-long friend Mary Alice Wyman, and notes from family, including the Ketchums of Canada and the Atkinsons of Minneapolis. Also included are letters received regarding Mrs. Sills's positions on the boards of the American Association of University Women, the National Society of Colonial Dames, the Waynflete School in Portland, and Westbrook Junior College.
Arranged chronologically.
1816 Oct 8 - 1822 Sept 9
1874 Mar 11 - 1889 Dec 3
1890 Jan 12 - 1896 July 13
1896 July 24 - 1897 Nov 22
1898 Jan 12 - Dec 24
1899 Jan 18 - Dec 22
1900 Feb 10 - Dec 23
1901 Feb 2 - Dec 5
1902 Jan 25 - 1903 Dec 16
1904 Jan 9 - Dec 27
1905 Jan 7 - Dec 30
1906 Jan 3 - Dec 2
1907 Jan 1 - Dec 29
1908 Jan 2 - Dec 2
1909 Jan 26 - Dec 26
1910 Jan 5 - Feb 28
1910 Mar 1 - Dec 27
1911 Jan 4 - June 15
1911 July 10 - Dec 28
1912 Jan 12 - Mar 13
1912 Apr 1 - Aug 18
1912 Aug 28 - Sept 3
1912 Sept 5 - 23
1912 Oct 9 - 1913 Apr 16
1913 May 12 - June 27
1913 July 31 - Dec 31
1914 Jan 3 - Dec 27
1915 Jan 14 - July 4
1915 July 6 - Dec 24
1916 Jan 7 - Mar 16
1916 Mar 24 - July 14
1916 July 19 - Oct 13
1916 Nov 2 - Dec 3
1916 Dec 5 -- Woodrow Wilson to KCMS, TLS
1916 Dec 5-17
1916 Dec 23 - 1917 Jan 15
1917 Jan 22 -- Kate Douglas Wiggin to Edith Koon, ALS
1917 Jan 29
1917 Jan 30 -- Woodrow Wilson to KCMS, TLS
1917 Jan 30 - Feb 7
1917 Feb 10 - Mar 27
1917 Mar 29 - June 3
1917 June 11 - Aug 9
1917 Aug 13 - Sept 29
1917 Oct 1 - 30
1917 Nov 5 - Dec 26
1918 Jan 3 - Feb 8
1918 Feb 9 - 26
1918 Mar 2 - Apr 8
1918 Apr 8 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1918 Apr 12 - 18
1918 Apr 21 -- William Howard Taft to KCMS, TLS
1918 Apr 22 - May 13
1918 May 14 - 15
1918 May 16
1918 May 17
1918 May 18
1918 May 19 - 20
1918 May 21 - 22
1918 May 22 -- Woodrow Wilson to KCMS, TLS
1918 May 23 - 25
1918 May 26 - 27
1918 May 28 - 29
1918 May 30 - 31
1918 May n.d.
1918 June 1 - 3
1918 June 4 - 5
1918 June 6 - 7
1918 June 8 - 9
1918 June 10 - 12
1918 June 13 - 17
1918 June 18 - 20
1918 June 21 - 25
1918 June 26 - 30, n.d.
1918 July 1 - 23
1918 July 26 -- Theodore Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1918 July 31 - August 31
1918 Sept 1
1918 Sept 2 - 3
1918 Sept 4 - 7
1918 Sept 8 - 10
1918 Sept 11 - 12
1918 Sept 12 -- Kate Douglas Riggs [Wiggin] to KCMS, ALS
1918 Sept 13 - 21
1918 Sept 22 - 29
1918 Oct 1 - 9
1918 Oct 10 - 17
1918 Oct 19 - 27
1918 Oct 29 - 31
1918 Nov 3 - 11
1918 Nov 12 - 18
1918 Nov 19 - 29
1918 Dec 2 - 20
1918 Dec 21 - 31
1918 n.d.
1919 Jan 5 - 31
1919 Feb 3 - Mar 31
1919 Apr 9 - 29
1919 May 1 - 28
1919 June 8 - 30
1919 July 1 - 30
1919 Aug 3 - 17
1919 Aug 19 - 31
1919 Sept 1 - 23
1919 Sept 25 -- William H. Taft to KCMS, TLS
1919 Sept 26 - 30
1919 Oct 7 - 15
1919 Oct 16 - Nov 29
1919 Dec 1 - 31
1920 Jan 1 - 6
1920 Jan 12 -- William H. Taft to Edith Sills, ALS
1920 Jan 13 - 23
1920 Jan 25 -- Kate Douglas Riggs [Wiggin] to Edith Sills, ALS
1920 Jan 25 - Mar 17
1920 Apr 1 -- Calvin Coolidge to KCMS, TLS
1920 Apr 6 - 26
1920 May 5 - June 27
1920 June 28 - July 20
1920 July 22 - Oct 18
1920 Oct 24 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1920 Oct 24 - Dec 28
1921 Jan 4 - Feb 10
1921 Feb 26 -- Kate Douglas Riggs [Wiggin] to Edith Sills, ALS
1921 Mar 5 - Apr 22
1921 May 2 - 28
1921 June 6 - 28
1921 July 6 - Aug 29
1921 Sept 3 - Oct 1
1921 Oct 5 - 31
1921 Nov 2 - Dec 31
1922 Jan 1 - 11
1922 Jan 12 - 20
1922 Jan 21 - Apr 12
1922 Apr 15 -- Calvin Coolidge to KCMS, TLS
1922 Apr 18 - May 26
1922 May 27 + June 3 -- Kate Douglas Riggs [Wiggin] to Edith Sills, ALS
1922 June 18 - Oct 6
1922 Oct 7 - Nov 19
1922 Dec 1 - 11
1922 Dec 12 - 29
1923 Jan 6 - Feb 9
1923 Feb 10 - 28
1923 Mar 1 -- Warren G. Harding to KCMS, TLS
1923 Mar 1 - 31
1923 Apr 2 - May 21
1923 June 1 - 20
1923 June 21 - July 23
1923 Aug 3 - Oct 12
1923 Oct 16 -- Calvin Coolidge to KCMS, TLS
1923 Oct 18 - Dec 6
1923 Dec 7 - 31
1924 Jan 2 - Feb 19
1924 Feb 20 - Apr 10
1924 Apr 11 - May 2
1924 May 4 - May 27
1924 May 28 - June 21
1924 June 22 - July 2
1924 July 8 - Aug 3
1924 Aug 11 - Sept 27
1924 Sept 30 - Dec 25
1925 Jan 1 - Feb 6
1925 Feb 7 -- Herbert Hoover to KCMS, TLS
1925 Feb 7 - Mar 31
1925 Apr 4 - May 12
1925 May 13 - July 28
1925 Aug 2 - 22
1925 Aug 24 - Sept 1
1925 Sept 3 - Oct 31
1925 Nov 9 - Dec 25
1926 Jan 7 - Mar 13
1926 Mar 16 - May 27
1926 May 28 - Aug 13
1926 Aug 14 - Sept 12
1926 Sept 13 - Oct 27
1926 Nov 8 - Dec 23, n.d.
1927 Jan 10 - Feb 19
1927 Feb 20 - Apr 27
1927 May 3 - June 14
1927 June 15 - 29
1927 July 1 - Oct 29
1927 Nov 3 - Dec 30
1928 Jan 3 - 26
1928 Feb 2 - 24
1928 Feb 25 - Apr 7
1928 Apr 9 - May 13
1928 May 17 - June 6
1928 June 12 - July 16
1928 July 17 - Aug 15
1928 Aug 16 - Sept 28
1928 Oct 27 - Nov 28
1928 Dec 5 - 29, n.d.
1929 Jan 4 - Feb 28
1929 Mar 6 -- Calvin Coolidge to KCMS, TLS
1929 Mar 7 - 23
1929 Mar 24 - Apr 20
1929 May 1 - June 7
1929 June 14 - 22
1929 June 23 - July 6
1929 July 8 - Aug 19
1929 Aug 20 - Oct 7
1929 Oct 10 - Nov 22
1929 Nov 25 - Dec 31, n.d.
1930 Jan 2 - 31
1930 Feb 1 - Mar 4
1930 Mar 12 - Apr 15
1930 Apr 6 - June 9
1930 June 9 -- Robert Frost to KCMS, ALS
1930 June 18 - Aug 30
1930 Sept 6 - Oct 27
1930 Oct 29 - Nov 29
1930 Dec 3 -- Robert Frost to KCMS, ALS
1930 Dec 4 - 17
1930 Dec 17 -- Herbert Hoover to KCMS, TLS
1930 Dec 28 - 31
1930 [Dec ?] -- Robert Frost to KCMS, ALS
1931 Jan 3 - 31
1931 Feb 6 - Mar 18
1931 Mar 23 - Apr 17
1931 Apr 20 - May 4
1931 May 5 - 23
1931 May 24 - June 10
1931 June 19 - Aug 16
1931 Aug 21 - Sept 18
1931 Sept 20 - Nov 4
1931 Nov 9 - Dec 11
1931 Dec 13 - 30
1932 Jan 1 - 29
1932 Jan 30 - Feb 15
1932 Feb 15 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1932 Feb 17 - Mar 8
1932 Mar 10 - Apr 21
1932 Apr 27 - May 10
1932 May 14 - 31
1932 June 1 - 11
1932 June 15 - July 13
1932 July 14 - Aug 25
1932 Aug 27 - Nov 3
1932 Nov 11 -- William Butler Yeats to Edith Sills, TLS
1932 Nov 15 - Dec 30
1933 Jan 9 - Feb 17
1933 Feb 20 - Mar 20
1933 Mar 24 - May 24
1933 June 4 - 24
1933 June 25 - July 15
1933 July 17 - Aug 2
1933 Aug 17 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1933 Sept 11 - Dec 6
1933 Dec 7 - 31, n.d.
1934 Jan 1 - 27
1934 Feb 1 - 4
1934 Feb 5 - Mar 11
1934 Mar 14 - May 3
1934 May 7 - 28
1934 May 28 - June 16
1934 June 22 - July 22
1934 July 24 - Aug 13
1934 Aug 15 - Sept 10
1934 Sept 18 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1934 Sept 18 - Oct 13
1934 Oct 14 - 31
1934 Nov 11 - Dec 31
1935 Jan 4 - 20
1935 Jan 21 - 27
1935 Feb 4 - Mar 19
1935 Mar 20 - Apr 1
1935 Apr 2 - 31
1935 May 3 - 17
1935 May 21 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1935 May 26 - June 15
1935 June 20 - Sept 20
1935 Oct 3 - Dec 25
1936 Jan 3 - Feb 5
1936 Feb 5 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1936 Feb 7 - Mar 23
1936 Mar 27 - Apr 9
1936 Apr 10 - May 9
1936 May 10 - 30
1936 June 4 - 30
1936 July 1 - 14
1936 July 17 - 30
1936 Aug 3 - 18
1936 Aug 21 - Sept 23
1936 Sept 27 - Nov 23
1936 Nov 24 - Dec 29
1937 Jan 3
1937 Jan 4 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1937 Jan 7 - 27
1937 Feb 10 - Apr 30
1937 May 1 - June 21
1937 June 22 - July 12
1937 July 13 - Aug 5
1937 Aug 7 - 21
1937 Aug 23 - Sept 13
1937 Sept 16 - Oct 6
1937 Oct 7 - Nov 5
1937 Nov 16 - Dec 17
1937 Dec 18 - 30
1938 Jan 1 - 19
1938 Jan 20 - Apr 13
1938 Apr 21 - June 30
1938 July 5 - Sept 6
1938 Sept 14 - Oct 18
1938 Oct 27 - Nov 20
1938 Nov 21 - Dec 30
1938 Dec 28 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1939 Jan 25 - Feb 13
1939 Feb 19 - Mar 14
1939 Mar 15 - 26
1939 Mar 27 - May 2
1939 May 6 - 30
1939 May 31 - Aug 27
1939 Sept 1 - Oct 30
1939 Nov 6 - Dec 29
1940 Jan 2 - Feb 29
1940 Mar 3 - Apr 30
1940 May 1 - June 11
1940 June 13 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1940 June 16 - Aug 19
1940 Sept 3 - 29
1940 Oct 1 -- Carl Sandburg to KCMS, TLS
1940 Oct 2 - Nov 25
1940 Nov 28 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1940 Nov 29 - Dec 31
1941 Jan 7 - Feb 21
1941 Mar 9 - May 5
1941 May 6 - July 16
1941 July 18 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1941 July 29 - Oct 20
1941 Nov 3 - Dec 17, n.d.
1942 Jan 2 - Feb 3
1942 Feb 4 - May 18
1942 May 26 - Aug 6
1942 Aug 12 - Sept 12
1942 Oct 16 - Dec 25, n.d.
1942 Dec 2, 7, 17 -- Eleanor Roosevelt to Edith Sills, TLS
1943 Jan 7 - 30
1943 Feb 1 - 27
1943 Mar 2 - 27
1943 Apr 1 - 30
1943 May 1 -- Eleanor Roosevelt to KCMS, TLS
1943 May 1 - 28
1943 June 1 - July 31
1943 Aug 5 - 29
1943 Sept 5 - 14
1943 Sept 15 - 20
1943 Oct 6 - Nov 21
1943 Dec 1 - 24
1944 Jan 1 - 29
1944 Feb 1 - 29
1944 Mar 1 - Apr 7
1944 Apr 10 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt to KCMS re: Bowdoin sesquicentennial, TLS
1944 Apr 10 - May 30
1944 June 1 - 14
1944 June 15 - 30
1944 July 5 - Aug 26
1944 Sept 1 - 30
1944 Oct 2 - 31
1944 Nov 1 - Dec 31
1945 Jan 4 - Apr 29
1945 May 1 - July 13
1945 July 14 -- Harry Truman to KCMS, TLS
1945 July 17 - Dec 23
1946 Jan 4 - Nov 29
1947 Jan 20 - July 11
1947 Aug 4 - Dec 19
1948 Jan 5 - 8
1948 Jan 9 -- Harry Truman to KCMS, TLS
1948 Jan 14 - Mar 5
1948 Mar 6 - Apr 6
1948 Apr 8 - 27
1948 May 3 - 14
1948 May 15 - 21
1948 May 22 - June 16
1948 June 17 - July 10
1948 July 14 - Aug 21
1948 Aug 22 - Sept 29
1948 Oct 5 - Nov 2
1948 Nov 13 - Dec 31
1949 Jan 2 - 13
1949 Jan 18 - Feb 10
1949 Feb 14 - Apr 29
1949 May 2 - 20
1949 May 21 - Sept 24
1949 Sept 25 - Oct 5
1949 Oct 6 - Dec 25
1950 Jan 1 - Mar 23
1950 Apr 12 - 28
1950 Apr 30 - May 15
1950 May 19 - June 10
1950 June 11 - July 9
1950 July 15 - Aug 24
1950 Aug 29 - Oct 10
1950 Oct 15 - 29
1950 Oct 31 - Nov 13
1950 Nov 14 - Dec 6
1950 Dec 8 - 25
1951 Jan 2 - 9
1951 Jan 11 - 26
1951 Feb 3 - Mar 15
1951 Mar 22 - May 31
1951 June 1 - 30
1951 July 3 - 30
1951 Aug 12 - Oct 18
1951 Oct 19 - Nov 15
1951 Nov 17 - Dec 27
1952 Jan 2 - 10
1952 Jan 11 - 31
1952 Feb 1 - 29
1952 Mar 4 - Apr 7
1952 Apr 8 - 16
1952 Apr 17 - 30
1952 May 2 - 10
1952 May 12 - 22
1952 May 24 - 26
1952 June 2 - 5
1952 June 6 - 8
1952 June 9 - 10
1952 June 12 - 15
1952 June 16 - 24
1952 June 25 - 30
1952 July 1 - 7
1952 July 8 - 15
1952 July 16 - 24
1952 July 25 - 31
1952 Aug 1 - 14
1952 Aug 16 - 20
1952 Aug 21 - 28
1952 Sept 1 - 15
1952 Sept 17 - 30
1952 Oct 1 - 8
1952 Oct 9 - Dec 31
1953 Jan 2 - 27
1953 Mar 2 - Apr 29
1953 May 2 - 28
1953 June 4 - July 14
1953 July 16 - Sept 28
1953 Oct 7 - Dec 8
1953 Dec 11 - 27
1954 Jan 1 - Feb 28
1954 Mar 1 - Sept 25
1954 Oct 4 - Nov 13
1954 Nov 15
1954 Nov 16
1954 Nov 16 [telegrams]
1954 [ca. Nov 16]
1954 Nov 17
1954 Nov 18
1954 [ca. Nov 18]
1954 Nov 19
1954 Nov 20
1954 Nov 21
1954 Nov 22
1954 Nov 23
1954 Nov 24
1954 Nov 25
1954 Nov 26
1954 Nov 27 - 28
1954 Nov 29
1954 Nov 30
1954 Dec 1
1954 Dec 2 - 4
1954 Dec 5 - 6
1954 Dec 7 - 9
1954 Dec 10
1954 Dec 11 - 12
1954 Dec 13
1954 Dec 14 - 16
1954 Dec 17
1954 Dec 18 - 19
1954 Dec 20 - 22
1954 Dec 23 - 25
1954 Dec 26 - 31
1955 Jan 2 - 20
1955 Jan 21 - 31
1955 Feb 2 - 10
1955 Feb 11 - 28
1955 Mar 1 - 20
1955 Mar 21 - 31
1955 Apr 2 - 12
1955 Apr 16 - 30
1955 May 2 - 16
1955 May 17 - 31
1955 June 1 - 15
1955 June 16 - 29
1955 July 3 - 15
1955 July 16 - 31
1955 Aug 4 - 31
1955 Sept 1 - Oct 6
1955 Oct 9 - Nov 2
1955 Nov 7 - Dec 25
1956 Jan 10 - Feb 29
1956 Mar 1 - Apr 28
1956 May 6 - 31
1956 June 10 - Aug 31
1956 Sept 17 - Dec 19
1957 Jan 1 - Mar 30
1957 Mar 31 - June 18
1957 June 24 - Oct 8
1957 Oct 9 - Nov 27
1958 Jan 18 - Apr 20
1958 Apr 25 - May 26
1958 May 27 - Aug 13
1958 Aug 21 - Oct 9
1958 Oct 28 - Dec 27
1959 Jan 2 - Apr 30
1959 May 1 - July 1
1959 July 10 - Sept 25
1959 Oct 8 - Dec 31
1960 Jan 4 - July 26
1960 Aug 4 - Dec 31
1961 Jan 3 - Apr 24
1961 May 1 - Aug 20
1961 Aug 30 - Dec 27
1962 Jan 14 - Mar 8
1962 Mar 11 - Apr 17
1962 Apr 19 - May 28
1962 June 7 - Aug 20
1962 Aug 21 - Oct 6
1962 Oct 9 - Nov 17
1962 Nov 28 - Dec 31
1963 Jan 2 - Feb 28
1963 Mar 1 - Apr 25
1963 May 1 - 31
1963 June 1 - 30
1963 July 1 - Sept 30
1963 Oct 9 - Dec 26
1964 Jan 4 - Feb 28
1964 Mar 2 - May 18
1964 May 20 - June 30
1964 July 1 - Sept 30
1964 Oct 1 - Dec 14
1965 Jan 3 - Feb 29
1965 Mar 12 - May 14
1965 May 17 - July 8
1965 July 11 - Sept 30
1965 Oct 3 - Dec 31
1966 Jan 9 - Apr 14
1966 Apr 20 - June 2
1966 June 3 - Aug 8
1966 Aug 10 - Dec 17
1967 Jan 4 - Apr 3
1967 Apr 6 - May 26
1967 June 5 - Aug 15
1967 Aug 17 - Dec 20
1968 Jan 4 - Apr 26
1968 May 4 - June 17
1968 June 18 - July 25
1968 Aug 1 - Oct 10
1968 Oct 11 - Dec 24
1968 Dec 3 - 30
1969 Jan 1 - 31
1969 Feb 4 - July 27
1969 Aug 1 - Sept 30
1969 Oct 20 - Dec 31
1970 Jan 3 - 15
1970 Jan 16 - Feb 28
1970 Mar 7 - Oct 30
1970 Nov 7 - Dec 31
1971 Jan 3 - Mar 29
1971 Apr 8 - Dec 25
1972 Jan 3 - Dec 25
1973 Jan 19 - Sept 16
1973 Sept 21 - Dec 25
1974 Feb 28 - June 12
1975 Sept 2 - Dec 31
1976 June 5 - Aug 18
Undated
Comprises greeting cards sent from numerous countries, including Japan, Africa, Italy, as well as the United States. Also includes greeting cards "from Bowdoin boys" to Kenneth and Edith Sills during World War II.
Miscellaneous greeting cards.
Greeting cards "from Bowdoin boys during World War II."
Consists of invitations sent to Kenneth and Edith Sills for a wide variety of functions, including weddings, dinner parties, society gatherings, gallery openings, and Bowdoin College receptions and dedications.
Arranged chronologically
Dec 5, 1907 - Aug 11, 1960
Dec 30, 1960 - June 10, 1962
June 16, 1962 - Dec 10, 1962
March 2, 1963 - May 5, 1966
June 9, 1967 - Aug 31, 1968
Sept 28, 1968 - Oct 17, 1973
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Assorted materials belonging to and created by Kenneth Sills, including a box of note cards relating to his study and teaching of classics as well as miscellaneous notes and printed items. Also included is a 1921 speech by Sills titled "Of Standards" and his elementary school notebook from 1889.
Arranged alphabetically by material type.
Class notes
Manuscript miscellany and notes
Memorial materials
School book, 1889
Speech: "Of Standards" [For the "Orange and Black," April 1921]
Printed miscellany
Horace, Odes and Epodes: textbook annotated by Sills, 1906-1909
Comprises speeches and reports on a number of subjects given by Edith Sills at various events and committee meetings. Includes a speech on post-war Bowdoin and anti-suffrage campaigning materials.
Anti-Suffrage Campaign: ms. written by Edith L.K. Sills.
Anti-Suffrage Campaign: printed ephemera.
Anti-Suffrage Campaign: newsclippings.
"Case Against Women's Suffrage, The." n.d.
"College Post-War, The" [2 ms. copies; 2 typescripts]. 26 December 1946.
"English Speaking Union in Maine, The" [foreword by Edith Sills]. 1956.
"Entertaining Undergraduates" [2 typescripts]. n.d.
[Epsilon Sigma Omicron Committee]. 14 January 1948.
"Hawaii 1941" [2 ms. copies]. n.d.
"Hope of Preventing War, The." n.d.
[National Society of the Colonial Dames of America]: reports by Edith L.K. Sills. 1949-1950.
"Some Visitors in Vigrette." 1943.
"To the Episcopal Churchwomen of St. Luke's Catheral. . ." 1965.
[Victoria Society of Maine Women]: list of people compiled by Edith Sills.
[Women's Auxillary to the National Episcopal Council: 50th Anniversay of the Maine branch]. 23 May 1928.
[Women's Auxillary to the National Council]. 9 August 1948.
Untitled. n.d.
Untitled. n.d.
Comprises notebooks from Edith Sills's school days, class books from her teaching positions at Houlton High School, Portland High School, and Lenox School in New York City. Also contains a diary from 1909, as well as a Sunday School notebook from 1897.
Sunday School Book. The Church of the Good Shepherd, Houlton, Maine. 31 January 1897.
Notebook. "Silas Marner." 1908.
Prose composition, Latin IB. Wellesley College. 1908-1909.
Notebook. Latin IB. Wellesley College. n.d. [pre-1911].
Diary. 1909.
Notebook. English. Wellesley College. n.d. [pre-1911].
Notebook. French. Wellesley College. n.d. [pre-1911].
Notebook. English. Wellesley College. 1911.
Class book. Houlton High School, Maine. 1911-1912.
Class book. Portland High School, Maine. 1914-1915.
Class book. Lenox Sch. Finch Coll., NYC. 1916-1917.
Class book. Lenox School, NYC. 1917-1918.
Class book. St. Paul's Church School. n.d.
Contains printed materials from the many committees and boards on which Edith Sills served, including the American Red Cross, the Maine Historical Society, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Also contains miscellaneous materials, including book jackets, from The Sills of Bowdoin by Herbert Ross Brown.
Arranged chronologically.
1899-1947.
1955-1962.
1964.
1965-1971, 2014.
undated.
Contains dried plants and flowers, collected, mounted, and labeled by Edith Sills.
Arranged chronologically.
Herbaria.
Fifty dolls collected by Edith Sills. Includes dolls of many different nationalities and ethnicities.
Some dolls are in fragile condition.
Doll collection
Consists of photographs focusing primarily on Kenneth C.M. Sills and his activities at Bowdoin, but also including personal and family images. Present are numerous portraits and candids of Kenneth and Edith Sills from childhood onward, as well as images of graduation processions, reunions, the Sills's vacations to Europe and Hawaii, family, and Bowdoin faculty and alumni. Also included are photographs of the construction of Sills Drive in Brunswick, the removal of timbers from Massachusetts Hall in the 1930s, and the visits to the College of Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost. Unbound photo scrapbooks are foldered in their original order.
Arranged topically.
Kenneth Sills: 1880-1917
Kenneth Sills: 1918-1939
Kenneth Sills: 1940-1949
Kenneth Sills: 1950-1961
Edith Lansing Koon Sills: ca.1900-1961
Edith Lansing Koon Sills: 1962-1978
Edith Lansing Koon Sills: Kenneth & Edith Sills, 1922-1954
Bowdoin related: Buildings & landscapes
Bowdoin related: Class of 1901 reunions
Bowdoin related: Graduation processions
Bowdoin related: Massachusetts Hall renovations, 1936
Bowdoin related: Miscellaneous alumni
Bowdoin related: Miscellaneous faculty
Bowdoin related: Sills Drive construction
Bowdoin related: Unidentified people
Family: Charles Morton & Elizabeth Sills (mother & father of KCMS)
Family: Ketchums (KCMS's mother's family), incl. KCMS, sister, and mother, 1889
Family: Ketchums -- miscellaneous
Family: Mary Sills (KCMS's sister) & KCMS, 1889
Family: Mary Sills
Family: Miscellaneous
Family: Miscellaneous
Family: "Possum" album, 1908
Miscellaneous images: Of people
Miscellaneous images: Of people
Miscellaneous images: Of places: filmstrips of Western America.
Miscellaneous images: Of things
Notables: Robert Frost & KCMS
Notables: Eleanor Roosevelt & KCMS
Notables: Carl Sandburg & KCMS with student
Notables: Kate Douglas Wiggin with children
Sills's travels: World Conference on Faith & Order in Lausanne, Switzerland, 1927
Sills's travels: Europe, 1934
Sills's travels: Hawaii, 1941
Sills's travels: Visit to unknown zoo, ca.1950
Sills's travels: Europe, 1953
Photo Scrapbooks: Sills at Bowdoin, c.1950 [unbound].
Photo Scrapbooks: Sills at Bowdoin, c. 1952- [unbound].
Photo Scrapbooks: Life of Kenneth Sills [unbound].
Photo Scrapbooks: Postcards.
Miscellaneous photographs.
Contains several of Sills's degrees, including those from Bowdoin College, Harvard University, and Yale University. The series also includes pins and name tags from various conventions, awards to both Kenneth and Edith Sills from a number of associations, as well as a number of commemorative medallions and medals. Also contains the "Sills tablecloth," which was signed by prominent dinner guests of Sills and later embroidered.
Arranged alphabetically.
American Society for the Control of Cancer: "an award for distinguished service in the war against cancer to Mrs. Kenneth C.M. Sills. n.d.
Bowdoin Father's Association: to Kenneth C.M. Sills. 17 April 1952. Brunswick Teachers: to Kenneth Sills. State of Maine: to Kenneth Charles Morton Sills. 4 June 1952.
The Deborah Morton Award given to Mrs. Kenneth C.M. Sills, "who has in the manner of Deborah Morton, long-time seminary and college teacher, rendered distinguished professional and civic service. To the community, given at Portland, Maine. April 20, 1961.
Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston Posthumous Tribute to KCM Sills (Board member)
First Radio Parish Church of America, Portland, Maine [40th Anniversary]: to Edith Sills. n.d.
Greater Portland Association for Retarded Children, Inc.: to Mrs. Kenneth C.M. Sills. 4 May 1965.
The Hannah More Testimonial: presented to Edith Lansing Koon. 15 June 1904.
Regional Memorial Hospital Building Fund [Brunswick, Maine]: Founder: Mrs. Kenneth C.M. Sills. 1959.
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc.: to Mrs. Kenneth C.M. Sills, appointment to Chairman of the Brunswick, Maine chapter. 30 January 1940.
National Geographic Society: to Mrs. Kenneth C.M. Sills. 31 August 1955.
Poland Spring Job Corps Center for Women: to Mrs. Kenneth C.M. Sills. 19 April 1968.
A Tribute to Kenneth Charles Morton Sills and Edith Lanson Koon Sills by the Town of Brunswick Maine, September 28, 1952.
Signatures of Those Attending the Ceremonies of Tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C.M. Sills at Brunswick, Maine, September 28, 1952.
Western Maine Wellesley Club Centennial Award: to Edith K. Sills. 17 March 1975.
Amherst College, LL.D. 1952.
Bates College, LL.D. 1918.
Bowdoin College, A.B. 1901.
Bowdoin College, LL.D. 1934.
Bowdoin College, LL.D. 1934: Edith Lansing Koon Sills [honorary degree refused by Mrs. Sills 1934].
Bowdoin College, LL.D. 1952: Edith Lansing Koon Sills.
Boston University, L.H.D. 1949.
Colby College, LL.D. 1920.
Dalhousie University, LL.D. 1939.
Dartmouth College, LL.D. 1918.
Hannah More Academy: Edith Lansing Koon. 13 June 1906.
Harvard College, A.M. 1903.
Portland High School. 30 June 1897.
Tufts University, LL.D. 1947.
Wellesley College, A.B. 1911: Edith Lansing Koon.
Yale University, LL.D. 1941.
Animal Refuge League: "Dollar a Pet Club" pin.
Berwick Academy: Sesquicentennial guest medal [2].
Canal National Bank [Portland, Maine]: 100th Anniversary medallion.
Denmark, King of: medal given to Kenneth Sills after World War II.
ELKS Executive Board: name tag [Mrs. Kenneth Sills].
Eton College: door knocker.
Harvard Tricentennial: medallion.
Honorary Fire Department pin.
Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary in New England: medallion.
Memorial Hospital [Brunswick, Maine]: founder pin.
MIT: medal.
MIT: mid-century Convocation 1941 pin.
MTA Annual Convention: 1941 pin.
NYU Law Center: Arthur T. Vanderbilt Hall medallion.
Pejebscot Region: medal.
Princeton Bicentennial: medallion.
Protestant Episcopal Church: 52nd Convention name medal [2].
Rotary International: name tag.
Rotary International: pin.
St. Christopher's Medal.
Tavern Club medal.
Wells Cathedral: medal.
U.S. Military Academy Sesquicentennial: medallion.
Cross.
9 pence.
1 wheat-penny.
Edith Sills' signed tablecloth.
Christening bottle for the S.S. James Bowdoin, sponsored by Mrs. Edith Lansing Sills. 1943 Aug 1.
Medal from national Episcopal Church for "extraordinary service," ca. 1954
Comprises scrapbooks collected by Kenneth C.M. Sills, his mother, and Edith Sills, covering broad subjects such as World War I, the Spanish American War, as well as much of Sills's life and presidency. The series also includes scrapbooks kept by Edith Sills, scrapbooks on England's royalty, and scrapbooks of Europe.
Arranged by subject.
The War Book: The United States of America versus the Kingdom of Spain. April 25, 1898.
World War I scrapbook v.I: August 1 1914 - December 15 1915.
World War I scrapbook v.II: December 15 1915 - December 14 1916.
World War I scrapbook v.III: December 14 1916 - August 4 1917.
World War I scrapbook v.IV: August 3 1914 - March 8 1918.
World War I scrapbook v.V: March 21 1918 - Septbember 11 1918.
World War I scrapbook v.VI: September 1918 - June 1919.
Scrapbook kept by Sills: n.d.
Sills at Bowdoin and before: c.1894 - c.1918 [kept by Sills' mother].
Sills at Bowdoin: September 14 1897 - June 27 1901.
President Sills: May 14 1918 - 1929[?].
President Sills: 1918 - 1933.
President Sills: 1933[?] - 1941[?].
President Sills: 1941 - 1954.
President Sills: c.1948.
Bowdoin Sesquicentennial 1944.
Kenneth C. M. Sills, Candidate for the Democratic Party in Maine for the U.S.
Senate, June 29 - September 11 1916.
World Conference of Faith and Order, Edinburgh. August 3 - 18 1937.
Political and influential people scrapbook kept by Sills.
European scrapbook.
Educational articles scrapbook.
Trip scrapbook. February - August 1913 [contains correspondence to Sills' mother].
England's royalty scrapbook.
Ketchum family scrapbook.
"In Memorium: Charles Morton Sills, D.D."
"Looking Backwards, or A Record of the Services of Mrs. Kenneth C.M. Sills to the Brunswick Branch of the A.A.U.W."
Edith Koon [Sills]'s scrapbook of Egypt, Greece, Italy.
"S.S. James Bowdoin Launched August 1, 1943. New England Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland, Maine. Mrs. Edith Lansing Sills, sponsor."
John Rood loose scrapbook.
Consists of loose newspaper clippings collected by Kenneth and Edith Sills on a variety of topics. Most of the materials concern the activities of Kenneth Sills as president of Bowdoin College, but others regarding events at the College, happenings in Brunswick, and other miscellaneous occurances in the Sills's lives are also included.
Arranged chronologically.
1876-1913.
1914-1917.
1918.
1919.
1921-1923.
1924-1929.
1930-1939.
1940-1947.
1948-1951.
1952-1953.
1954.
1954-1956.
1957-58.
1959-64.
1965-67.
1968.
1970-1973.
Undated.
Undated.
Undated.
Undated.