Guide to the Wedding planner album, 1867-1868

Summary Information

Title:

Wedding planner

ID:

M194.P678 W4

Date [inclusive]:

1867-1868

Extent:

1 v.; 19 cm

Repository:

George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Abstract:

Bowdoin College album appropriated as a wedding planner, listing numerous invited guests to a December 1867 Newburyport (Mass.) wedding and reception of an unnamed bride from Newburyport and groom from Portland, Me. Also included are lists of names of Portland callers to the couple's Portland residence in January and February, 1868, and an inventory of wedding gifts. Guests named include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Also includes an incomplete ms. draft of a play written in French entitled La position delicate.

Using These Materials

Conditions Governing Access:

No restrictions

Conditions Governing Use:

If not in the public domain, copyright is retained by the author of the items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: Wedding planner, Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine

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Scope and Contents

Bowdoin College album appropriated as a wedding planner, listing numerous invited guests to a December 1867 Newburyport (Mass.) wedding and reception of an unnamed bride from Newburyport and groom from Portland, Me. Also included are lists of names of Portland callers to the couple{u2019}s Portland residence in January and February, 1868, and an inventory of wedding gifts. Guests named include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Also includes an incomplete ms. draft of a play written in French entitled La position delicate.

Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s):

Newburyport (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
Portland (Me.) -- Social life and customs.

Personal Name(s):

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.

Subject(s):

Weddings -- Planning.
Weddings -- Massachusetts -- Newburyport.
Marriage customs and rites -- Maine -- Portland.

Note

Forms part of the Miscellaneous Manuscript collection in the Bowdoin College Special Collections & Archives.

Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title

Position delicate