Fessenden Collection, 1786-1982 (bulk 1823-1869)
Correspondence, 1790-1917
Catalog Number: M59.1
An item level alphabetical listing of correspondence (PDF file) is available here. Box 1 1790-1837 2 Jan. 1838-Feb. 1842 3 March 1842-Dec. 1844 4 Jan. 1845-Aug. 1851 5 Sept. 1851-Aug. 1855 6 Sept. 1855-Jan. 1857 7 Feb. 1857-May 1859 8 June 1859-Dec. 1860 9 Jan. 1861-April 1862 10 May 1862-Jan. 1864 11 Feb.-Sept. 1864 12 Oct. 1864-July 1866 13 Aug. 1866-May 1868 14 June 1868-undated Box 15 Folder 1-4 Carbons of typescripts of the Sam Fessenden letters / prepared by John L. Baxter, Set 1 (pp. 1-184) 5-8 Carbons of typescripts of the Sam Fessenden letters / prepared by John L. Baxter, Set 2 (pp. 1-142) 9 Transcripts of correspondence with James Wilson Grimes 10 Correspondence: misc. covers Volume 1 Correspondence-Carbon typescripts of the Sam Fessenden letters . . ., c. 3 Vault Box 1 Folder 7 7/4/1864 letter from President Abraham Lincoln - original (photocopy of letter is in Fessenden correspondence, filed chronologically) [in Manuscripts box]; 7/2/1864 telegram forwarded to Mr. Fessenden from Abraham Lincoln - original (photocopy of telegram is in Fessenden correspondence, filed chronologically) [in Manuscripts box]
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Legal documents, 1840-1864
Catalog Number: M59.2
Box 15
Folder 11 Agreements settling the estate of James
Deering
12 Appointment of W.P. Fessenden as
Secretary of the Treasury (1864)
13 Certificate admitting W.P. Fessenden to
the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court
(1848)
14 Certificate of W.P. Fessenden's election
as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives (1840)
15 Memorandum re the will of W.P. Fessenden
16 Notes re the disposition of the
belongings of [Francis?] Fessenden
17 Passports of Francis Fessenden
18 Portland Renewal Authority, Munjoy
South Urban Renewal Project,
"Statement of Taking" re land
inherited by Foxes and Fessendens
19 Settlement of the estate of Nathaniel
Deering
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Biographical records, genealogies, and family history,
1855-1982
Catalog Number: M59.3
Box 16 Biographical:
Folder 1 Charles Stewart Daveis Fessenden
2 Frances Cushing Greeley Fessenden
3 Francis Fessenden - general
4 Francis Fessenden - memorials
5 Hewitt Chandler Fessenden
6 James Deering Fessenden, Sr. - general
7 James Deering Fessenden, Sr. -
memorials
8 James Deering Fessenden, Jr.
9 Joseph Palmer Fessenden
10 Samuel Fessenden, Jr. - general
11 Samuel Fessenden, Jr. - education
12 Samuel Fessenden, Jr. - ms. record of
his disappearance into Kansas in 1856
13 Samuel Fessenden, Jr. - concerning
people contacted by W.P. Fessenden
in tracing him to Kansas in 1856
14 Samuel Fessenden. Jr. - Maine
Historical Society newletter
15 Samuel Clement Fessenden
16 Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden
17 William Howard Fessenden
18 William Pitt Fessenden - general
19 William Pitt Fessenden - memorials
[mss.]
20 William Pitt Fessenden - memorials
[printed]
21 William Pitt Fessenden - Maine
Historical Society Newsletter
Family history:
22 Three Fessendens and Daniel Webster /
by Samuel Fessenden [presented to the
Science and Art Club of Germantown,
Pa., January 25, 1982]
23 A vote of "Not Guilty": William Pitt
Fessenden's role in the Impeachment
of Andrew Johnson / by Carol Bolger
[photocopy; for Gov. 43, May 15,
1978]
24 William Pitt Fessenden / by William
Salter [reprint from the Annals of
Iowa, 1908]
Box 17 Genealogies:
Folder 1-6 Fessenden family - Account of Gen.
Samuel Fessenden and Family / by
Francis Fessenden
Volume 1 Fessenden family - Account of Samuel
Fessenden and Family / by Francis
Fessenden
Box 17
Folder 7 Fessenden family - American Ancestry
[of Francis Fessenden]
8 Fessenden family - Excerts from
Genealogy on the Fessendens and
Fosters / by Earl Foster Fessenden
[and] Dorothy Fessenden Rodger
9 Fessenden family - Fessenden Family
in America / [by] John L. Baxter
10 Fessenden family - Fessenden Genealogy
/ by Francis Fessenden
11 Fessenden family: general
12 Fox family
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General addresses, speeches, reports and notes,
1825-1861, n.d.
Catalog Number: M59.4
Volume 1 Addresses and speeches on various
subjects, and childhood short stories
by W.P.Fessenden; together with a
Samuel Fessenden Sr. address, and
Francis Fessenden's memoir of his
father
2 Addresses, speeches, reports and notes
on various political topics
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Personal and professional records, 1786-1968
Catalog Number: M59.5
Box 17 Bowdoin College material:
Folder 14 "The Fessenden Affair" / by John L.
Baxter (Speech given before the Town
& College Club, January 5, 1968)
15 Dedication of the Fessenden Room
16 Miscellaneous
17 Records concerning Samuel Fessenden,
Jr.
Civil War:
Volume 1 Account of a caucus of Republican
Senators, held December 16, 1862
Box 17
Folder 18 Confederate currency
19 Francis Fessenden, appointments and
recommendations for promotion
20 Francis Fessenden, military retirement
21 James D. Fessenden, Sr., diary and
account book
James D. Fessenden, Sr., promotions and
appointments
22 Samuel Fessenden, Jr., orders re
23 List of killed, wounded or missing
members of the 30th Maine Vols.
after Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant
Hill and Cane River Crossing
24 Manuscript maps
25 Miscellaneous material
Family Bibles:
Folio Volume 2 Bible given to "Thomas & Lirrie from
their affectionate parents, Samuel
and Deborah Fessenden, July 18,
1855." Inserted is a list of
family members to whom the bible was
passed, marriages, births, and
deaths.
Volume 3 Bible given to Stephen D. Fessenden
"with the love of his Aunt, Mary D.
Sewall," March 1868
Box 18 Family Manuscripts:
Folder 1 "The Conspiracy : a tragedy in four
acts" / Samuel Fessenden, Sr.
2 College essays (2) of Thomas A.D.
Fessenden (Bowdoin 1845)
3 Diary of William Fessenden, January -
April, 1786
4 Sermon on Acts 8:22 & 25, by William
Fessenden
5 Sermon on 1st Corinthians 13:12, by
William Fessenden
6 Sermon on 2nd Corinthians 4:3-4, by
William Fessenden
7 Sermon on Isaiah 55:6, by William
Fessenden
8 Sermon on John 6:67, by William
Fessenden
9 Sermon on Psalms 111:10, by William
Fessenden [fragment]
10 Sermon on St. Matthew 24 [i.e.25]:46,
by William Fessenden
11 Sermon on unknown verse, by William
Fessenden [fragment]
Financial material:
Volume 4 Account book of W.P. Fessenden,
1833-1839
Box 18
Folder 12 Contracts, receipts, etc. re Francis
Fessenden's Life and Public Services
of William Pitt Fessenden
13 Loan agreement between Edward Fox and
John W. and Wm. H. Day, April 1, 1879
[ms. copy]
14 Miscellaneous
15 Official and personal finances of W.P.
Fessenden
16 Receipt for $10,000 to be used to start
the Commission for the Promotion of
Education in the South [founding
Storer College] signed by W.P.
Fessenden and N.C. Brackett
17 Valuation statements of W.P.
Fessenden's personal and real estate
properties
Reconstruction and Presidential
Impeachment:
18 "Impeachment : Opinion of Hon. W.P.
Fessenden on the Impeachment of
Andrew Johnson ..., 1868"
19 "Joint Committee on Reconstruction.
Journal: 39th Congress, 1st Session
[2 copies]
20 "President Johnson and His War on
on Congress" / by Carl Shurz
Treasury Department:
21 Translation of a portion of an article
on W.P. Fessenden, prepared for a
Swiss French language journal by
George Harrington
U.S. Senate:
22 Rules of the U.S. Senate, Hon. W.P.
Fessenden copy
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Ephemeral notes, [18--]
Catalog Number: M59.6
Box 18 Manuscript Ephemera:
Folder 22 Miscellaneous
23 Re Northeast Boundary controversy
24 Printed Ephemera
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Fessenden Association and John L. Baxter Archive
records, 1955-1969
Catalog Number: M59.7
Box 19
Folder 1-9 Correspondence, 1955-1969
10 Material re dedication of Fessenden Room,
Bowdoin College
11 Material re W.P. Fessenden portrait in
the Treasury Dept., Washington, D.C.
12 Membership and address lists
13 Miscellaneous manuscript material
14 News releases, Bowdoin College
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Clippings, 1858-1909
Catalog Number: M59.8
Box 20
1 Articles and Addresses:
"Jay Cooke and the Financing of the
Civil War" / by Ellis Paxson Ober-
holzer
2 "Mrs. Abraham Lincoln and Her Friends"
/ by Willis Steell
3 "The Tariff in Our Times" / by Ida M.
Tarbell
Biographical, re:
4 Charles Stewart Daveis Fessenden
5 Francis Cushing Greeley Fessenden
6 Francis Fessenden
7 Hewitt Chandler Fessenden
8 James Deering Fessenden, Sr.
9 Joseph Palmer Fessenden
10 Mary Turner Peterson Fessenden
11 Samuel Fessenden, Sr.
12 Samuel Fessenden, Jr.
13 Samuel Clement Fessenden
14 Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden
15 William Howard Fessenden
16-19 William Pitt Fessenden
20 Miscellaneous distantly related
Fessendens and others
Civil War:
21 "Abraham Lincoln's Rise to Greatness"
(from the Evening Post, Feb. 13,
1909)
22 "Chase to Greeley: some hitherto un-
published letters" (from the [New
York?] Daily Tribune, Jan. 20, 1895)
General, re:
23 Family homes (Deering/Fessenden)
24 W.P. Fessenden research
25 Memorials to W.P. Fessenden
26 Miscellaneous
27 Provenance of collections
28 Restoration of the Treasury
Department's portrait of W.P.
Fessenden
29-31 Reviews of Francis Fessenden's "Life
and Public Services of William Pitt
Fessenden"
Political:
32 W.P. Fessenden and the impeachment of
Andrew Johnson
33 W.P. Fessenden's speech re the
Lecompton Constitution (Feb. 8, 1858)
34 "Reminiscences of Maine Politics", nos.
14 and 15 / by Judge Henry Carter
(no. 14 discusses W.P. Fessenden)
35 "Reminiscences of Neal Dow..." (Port-
land Evening Express, Nov. 28, 1903)
Volume 1 Scrapbook on various political subjects
Box 20
Folder 36 "They Were Seven...the story of the
famous deadlock in the Maine Legis-
lature [1854]" (Lewiston Weekly
Journal, Jan. 19, 1893)
Volume 2 Treasury Department-scrapbook re W.P.
Fessenden's tenure, together with
obituaries of Francis Fessenden
3 Scrapbook on the Civil War and aftermath
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Images, 1841-1966, n.d.
Catalog Number: M59.9
Box 1 Fessenden Family:
Folder 1 Francis Fessenden, 1858
2 Francis Fessenden, n.d.
3 Francis Fessenden and General Henry
Anderson, n.d.
4 Francis Fessenden in uniform, n.d.
5 James Deering Fessenden, Sr., n.d.
6 James Deering Fessenden, Sr. in
uniform, n.d.
Oversize Box A2 James Deering Fessenden, Sr. in
uniform, n.d.
Box 1
Folder 7 Samuel Fessenden, Jr., 1841
8 Samuel Fessenden, Jr. in uniform, n.d.
9 Samuel Fessenden, Sr., n.d.
Oversize Box A2 Samuel Fessenden, Sr., n.d.
Box 1
Folder 10 William Pitt Fessenden, 1854, and 1863
with currency and IRS cigar stamp
11 William Pitt Fessenden, 1868
12 William Pitt Fessenden, n.d. (early
years)
13-15 William Pitt Fessenden, n.d. (mid-late
years)
Oversize Box A2 William Pitt Fessenden, n.d. (mid-late
years)
Box 1
Folder 16 William Pitt Fessenden and his sons,
n.d.
17 William Pitt Fessenden portrait (bust),
n.d.
18 William Pitt Fessenden portrait
(Treasury Department,
post-restoration), n.d.
19 William Pitt Fessenden portrait
(Treasury Department,
pre-restoration), n.d.
Folio Volume 1 Francis Fessenden Civil War Album
Box 1 People (other than Fessenden family):
Folder 20 A - D (cartes-de-visite), n.d.
21 F - K (cartes-de-visite), n.d.
22 L - P (cartes-de-visite), n.d.
23 R - W (cartes-de-visite), n.d.
24 Unknown people and miscellaneous groups
(cartes-de-visite), n.d.
Box 1 Places:
Folder 25 Falls Church, Virginia, n.d.
26 Fort Pulaski after the bombardment,
n.d.
27 Fort Western, Augusta, Maine, 1862
28 Mount Kineo, Moosehead Lake, Maine,
n.d.
29 U.S. Revenue Steamer William P.
Fessenden, n.d.
Oversize Box A2 U.S. Revenue Steamer William P.
Fessenden, n.d.
Box 1
Folder 30 William Pitt Fessenden Room,
Hawthorne-Longfellow Hall, Bowdoin
College, n.d.
Folder 31-34 William Pitt Fessenden Room,
Hawthorne-Longfellow Hall, Bowdoin
College, dedication ceremony,
1966 Aug 16
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Realia, 1823-1869
Catalog Number: M59.10
Box 1
Folder 2 Memorabilia in separate storage and
material in other collections (x-ref)
archives W.P. Fessenden's Bowdoin diploma
archives Bowdoin autograph albums of Samuel
Fessenden, Jr. and Joseph Palmer
Fessenden
BCMusArt W.P. Fessenden's portable writing desk
MapCase Drawer 20 1869 map of Munjoy Hill (Portland) which
includes alterations (i.e. Marginal
Way, new tracks for the Grand Trunk RR,
etc.)
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Bowdoin College Library, 3000 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011-8421
email: scaref@bowdoin.edu / telephone: (207) 725-3288
©Bowdoin College 2004
Bowdoin College Library, 3000 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011-8421
email: scaref@bowdoin.edu / telephone: (207) 725-3288
©Bowdoin College 2004