Guide to the Harry Pierce Nichols Papers, 1864-1906
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Harry Pierce Nichols Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.
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Harry Pierce Nichols was born on September 30, 1850 in Salem, Massachusetts to Charles Saunders and Amerlia A. (Ainsworth) Nichols. Before graduating from Harvard in 1871, Nichols attended Salem High School. Nichols then went on to study for the ministry at Andover Seminary and Philadelphia Divinity School before becoming ordained a deacon in 1876. He proceeded to have a distinguished career in the Episcopal Church, serving in parishes in Philadelphia, Brunswick, Maine, Connecticut, Minnesota, and, finally, at the Holy Trinity Church in New York City until his retirement in 1922.
Primarily letters of Harry Pierce Nichols to his wife Alice; ephemera; outline of sermon preached May 1, 1886 at Brunswick, Maine by Harry Pierce Nichols.
List of Correspondence
Correspondence: 1864 Sep 23 - 1884 Aug 30
Correspondence: 1885 Mar 8 - 1890 Jul 15
Correspondence: 1891 Aug 9 - 1896 Oct 4
Correspondence: 1897 Jul 6 - 1901 Jul 25
Correspondence: 1906 Mar 9 - 1906 Apr 9
Correspondence: 1906 Apr 11 - 1940 Jan 18
Ephemera: printed
Ephemera: miscellaneous