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This series consists of a pamplet which contains the report of the committee appointed by the Governor and Council in 1863 to study the subject of an agricultural college. It also contains the bill passed by the New Hampshire Legislature, in 1864, establishing the college and the proposition of Gen. David Culver to give his land to the state for the purpose of the agricultural college.

The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was established in 1866 in Hanover, NH and affiliated with Dartmouth College. Problems arose in the relationship between the two schools and it became necessary to explore alternatives for the agricultural college. The Governor and Council appointed a committee to research the removal of New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts from…

This series contains the report of the instruction trip through northern New Hampshire taken by the senior forestry students. It includes their daily itenerary, a detailed account of what they saw and did, and photographs.

This series contains videotape created for the Office of the Vice President for Research and Public Service, which is the focal point for advocacy and support of the complementary research and public service missions of the University.

Reverend Curtis Coe was born in Middleton, CT in 1750. He graduated from Brown University in 1776 and began preaching in Durham, NH in 1779. He was ordained and installed as Durham minister on November 1, 1780 and served until 1806. Three manuscript sermons written in 1787, 1797, and 1800 by the Reverend Curtis Coe of Durham.

Minister, Epsom, N.H., lived 1755-1813 Seven holograph sermons, 1786-1813, written on rag paper notebooks and sewn into 7 marbled protective covers. Haseltine, a Dartmouth College graduate, was the minister in Epsom, N.H. from 1784 until his death in 1813. Typically, each sermon was preached more than once and Haseltine noted the locations where he preached them on the back of each sermon. The sermons are numbered.

Harvard University graduate (1697) and Congregationalist minister. Manuscript sermon preached by Reverend Hugh Adams to the Congregationalist church in Durham, N.H. on Oct. 21, 1739.

The Revolver was written and distributed by students at the University of New Hampshire. This series contains 5 issues of the Revolver. The contents provide critical commentary from students about the University of New Hampshire and its administration.

Rice Rowell Whittier (1817–1897) was a deeply religious Free Baptist Elder, subscription agent, and missionary from Deerfield Centre, New Hampshire. During the years covered in the diaries Whittier lived in Greenwood, Illinois, 1862–1870, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1870–1872 (seventeen months), Greenwood again, 1872-1884, and finally moved back home to Deerfield Centre, New Hampshire, 1884-1896. The nineteen pocket…

Allard K. Lowenstein (1929-1980), the subject of The Pied Piper, was assassinated by a former civil rights movement protegé. He was president of the National Student Association in 1950 and a civil rights organizer in the South, later serving one term as a Congressman and was appointed a United Nations ambassador. The collection consists of manuscript, typed, and computer-generated drafts of The Pied Piper: Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream (InPrint.com, 1985), research materials for…

Richard Blaisdel Morse (August 31, 1811-March 16, 1889) was a blacksmith from Chester, NH. He leased land to Richard Morse (relationship unclear), and employed the other man to do various work for him. The 12 items include correspondence, an 1846 tax statement, and an indenture contract leasing land from Richard B Morse to Richard Morse (1836).

Richard T. Rogers (1818-1890) was a farmer and local politician from Rochester, Strafford Co., NH. His account books document his political activities in several local government committees. A possible relative named Victor E. Page also served as highway tax collector around 1890. The Richard T. Rogers Account Book Collection consist of 21 volumes dated 1848-1890, kept by Richard T. Rogers and Victor E. Page. They …

Richard Wilmer Rowan (1894-1964) has been described as the foremost American non-fiction writer on the history of espionage. He was educated at Brown and Columbia and served in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. He maintained a large international network of sources which provided him with information on intelligence activities. The collection includes correspondence from Allen W. …

The Richardson family ran a set of successful businesses in Dover, New Hampshire. The patriarch of the family, James Richardson was born in Woburn, Massachusetts on July 7, 1779. He married Tammy Tibbets of Dover on December 21, 1808. Augustus and James continued the business until at least 1854. This collection consists of nine ledgers of varying shape and size. These ledgers chronicle the Richardson’s business interests from 1805…

The Sports Information Office is responsible for the gathering and dissemination of all UNH sports information through-out the nation. The first varsity rifle team was organized in 1933-34. It was not offered after 1962. This series contains the records of the University of New Hampshire Rifle Team compiled by the Sports Information Office.

Robert Flint Chandler was appointed Dean of the College of Agriculture at UNH in 1947. He served as president of UNH from 1950-1954. During Chandler's administration, the drive for the Memorial Union Building was completed. In 1951, Sawyer and Alexander Halls were opened. He resigned in 1954 in order to return to the foreign agriculture program of the Rockefeller Foundation. Chandler's papers include issues such as…

Robert Connors was a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. The University's Writing Center is named after him. This collection is composed of the Center's files.

Robert Edmond Jones (1887-1954), set designer, was born in Milton, N.H. He graduated from Harvard University in 1910 and, after a brief period in New York as a costume designer, went to Europe and began practicing scenic design. He studied in Berlin under Max Reinhardt at Deutsches Theater. With the outbreak of World War II Jones returned to the United States where he was associated with plays, masques, operas,…

In 1965, the State of New Hampshire purchased the farmhouse in Derry New Hampshire where Robert Frost and family lived from 1900 to 1909. In 1969, two adjacent properties were purchased that served to protect the homestead’s beauty. With the help of Robert Frost’s eldest daughter, Lesley Frost Ballantine and a group of early trustees and state officials the restoration of the homestead ended in 1975 and was opened…

American poet, New Hampshire resident and teacher Two-page letter and accompanying poem, “Forest Flowers,” from Robert Frost to Miss Myrtle Raitt at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire, where Frost had previously taught. There is also a fourteen-page typed transcription of an untitled essay about Frost written by Miss Raitt, in which she quotes the poem and the contents of the letter in full.

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was a distinguished American poet and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes, born in San Francisco. He moved to New England in 1885, where he attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University. In 1895 he married Elinor Miriam White. Frost had published only a few poems before 1913 when his first book, A Boy’s Will, was printed in England. Although fame came late, Frost eventually became America’s…

The Robert Frost Youth Poet Program was begun in 1997 to provide New Hampshire fourth grade students in public and private schools the opportunity to express their feelings about New Hampshire in a poem in the hope that it will increase appreciation of the state’s natural and cultural resources and also encourage students to discover the poet in themselves. The program is sponsored by the Robert Frost Farm in Derry,…

Poet Robert Huff (1924-1993) was educated at Wayne State University, Michigan. Huff’s first book of poetry, Colonel Johnson’s Ride, was published in 1959. Three others followed: The Course (1966); The Ventriloquist (1977), and Shore Guide to Flocking Names (1985). He was a Bread Loaf Writers Conference Fellow in 1961, and a MacDowell Colony [Peterborough, N.H.] Fellow in 1963. The Robert Huff Collection, 1948-1989,…

Poet and author buried in the Stark Cemetery, Dunbarton, NH. A Postcard sent by Robert Lowell [1964-1977] to Arnold Grade, State University of N.Y. at Brockport. Lowell states that he was “never a student of Robert Frost’s, except in times of conversation.”

Rober Manton, noted composer of choral, piano, and orchestral works, was born in Dorchester, MA in 1894. He studied music at Harvard University under W.C. Heilman, Dr. A.T. Davison and Dr. E.B. Hill and with Harris S. Shaw in piano and organ, graduating in in 1918, and at the University of Toulouse with Vincent d'Indy, pupil of Cesar Franck. In 1923, he came to the University of New Hampshire Music Department, where…

Robert Otis Clement (1917-1993) was born in Nashua, New Hampshire. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1938. He joined the infantry of the United States Army in 1942. He served in the intelligence section of the 3rd Battalion, 133rd Infantry, 34th Division, and received a Purple Heart. Following the war, Clement attended the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Mass. and was ordained into the Episcopal priesthood at Saint Mary’s Church in Penacook, New Hampshire, in…

Robert Simpson, a Deerfield, NH native, lived from 1764-1844. In ca. 1818 he moved west to the area of Rutland, Ohio, where he lived until his death. A letter written Jan. 7, 1818 by Robert Simpson, a Deerfield, NH native to his brother, John Simpson, a long-time resident of Nottingham, NH. It documents Simpson’s journey from Maine to the West, giving detailed description of trip from Nottingham, NH to his settling in Rutland, Ohio. It describes the land he has bought, the crops, people, and…

Robert P. Tristram Coffin (1892-1955) grew up in Brunswick, Maine on a “saltwater farm.” He attended Bowdoin, Princeton, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar before, as well as after, serving two years in World War I. He taught at Wells College from 1921-1934 and Bowdoin College, where he was Pierce Professor in English from 1934 until his death in 1955. Coffin was also associated with the University…

Robert Wear was born in Yunnan-fu, China on September 6, 1916, the son of missionaries who met while in China. His mother, Alice, née von Niederhauser, worked for the German Evangelical Church while his father, Robert Benjamin, worked for the YMCA. The collection contains manuscript material for Wear’s autobiography Barbed Wire Recollections, an essay about his father, Dad Was A Dandy Dude, and drafts of …

The Roche family – Annie Roche, widow of David Roche (died Sept. 6, 1932), and mother of John Michael, Elizabeth (born ca. 1920, died July 1990), and David Roche (born ca. 1926) – lived at 89 Fourth Street in Manchester, New Hampshire’s west side. From July 1941 until March 1943, when he was discharged and awarded a disability pension for a duodenal ulcer, John served as a private in the U.S. Army. David served in…

Roger C. “Bump” Quimby was born in Concord NH. He graduated early from Concord High School to enlist in the Navy in 1945. Later he attended college at UNH (Class of 1950) and American University. He worked as the manager of the State of NH Print shop for over 30 years. Bump ‘s greatest passion was supporting UNH Hockey and was one of their biggest fans for over 50 years. This collection contains information on the…

Roland Douglas Sawyer, a Protestant minister and Massachusetts state legislator, was born in Kensington, New Hampshire on January 8, 1874. Sawyer graduated from Revere Lay College in 1898 and worked as pastor. During his ministerial career, Sawyer was involved with such organizations as the Christian Endeavor Society, the Anti-Saloon League, and other temperance organizations. In addition, he founded and…

Provision for instruction in Military science was made when Lieutenant Henry C. Hodges, Jr., 22nd U. S. Infantry, reported for duty on September 1, 1894. Beginning in 1895 the catalog listed military science as a three-year requirement for all males not excused for disability, and elective for seniors. This program was the genesis of the modern Reserve Officers Training Corps, which was formally organized in 1916…

UNH Rowing is a competitive club program for women and men that races in both New England based and national regattas during the fall and spring seasons. Photographs of women's and men's rowing at UNH, 1994-1996 and undated.

This series contains the records of the University of New Hampshire Rowing Team.

Roy Deneale Hunter was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the University of New Hampshire in 1916. He then became president of the Board in 1931 until his death in 1944. Hunter also acted as Chief Executive Officer of UNH twice, following the death of President Lewis in 1937 and President Engelhardt in 1944. This series consists of the papers of Roy D. Hunter while he served as interim President of UNH and include materials on Library alterations, the swimming pool, and correspondence with…

The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Boston Branch was formed in 1950 and was both the first branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society established outside the United Kingdom and the first branch in North America. The collection, which has been minimally processed, consists of various organizational materials relating to the Boston Branch of the RSCDS, including by-laws, minutes, event materials, such…

Ruth G. Stimson graduated from UNH in 1940 with a degree in Home Economics. She joined the Cooperative Extension as a Home Demonstration Agent-at-Large. Shortly after, she was assigned to the Rockingham County Office where she worked until she retired in 1982. The scrapbooks were created by Ruth G. Stimson and documented her life and service to Rockingham County, the town of Hampton, the Seacoast area and the state…

The Rye project consists of over 150 photographs of people, houses, seascapes, and landmarks, principally of the New Hampshire seacoast region. Included are photographs by many local photography studios, the bulk of which are from Alba R. H. Foss, an Adams family relative (See Adams Family, MC 56).

The Sacred Dance Guild was founded in 1958 and incorporated in 1965 as an international, interfaith, interdenominational non-profit organization. It publishes the Sacred Dance Guild Journal three times a year and sponsors a National Festival held in different locations to accommodate the membership. The Sacred Dance Guild Archives consists of the records for the national organization, such as incorporation papers,…

Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873) was born and educated in New Hampshire and went on to become Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury, and a founder of the Republican Party. A two page letter (1862) from the Treasury Dept. [Washington, D.C.] to Major-General Henry H. Halleck that concerns Halleck’s opening of the Cumberland River to Union navigation and discusses the lack of communication between Lincoln’s Cabinet in Washington and Union Generals in the field.

The Salmon Falls Bank of Rollinsford, New Hampshire was incorporated on July 3, 1851. In June 1964 the bank merged with the Somersworth Bank and became the Somersworth-Rollinsford Savings Bank. William Morton (1814-1904) began work at the bank as cashier starting in 1851. Later he became active in local and state politics, including the New Hampshire Senate and as the Chairman of the Legislative Committee on Banking…

Samuel Swasey (1804-1887) was a New Hampshire politician of the 1840’s, associated with the radical or “locofoco” wing of the Democratic party. He served as Haverhill’s town selectman and moderator and worked ten years as register of probate for Grafton County. Swasey represented Haverhill in the New Hampshire House of Representatives seven times from 1839 to 1850, acting as the Speaker of the House in 1842-43. During Franklin Pierce’s administration, Swasey was Inspector of Customs at…

Samuel Whitney Hale was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts on April 2, 1823. He was educated in a common school in Massachusetts and, in his twenties, moved first to Dublin, New Hampshire to start work in business. Hale died on October 16, 1891. This collection is a series of correspondence addressed to Samuel Whitney Hale of Keene, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire from 1882 until 1887.

Ted Sannella (1928-1995) was a square and contra dance caller from Boston, later moving to Maine. Ted began teaching New England dancing as a professional caller in 1946. He was the author of Balance and Swing (1982), and Swing the Next (1996). Ted served on the board of NEFFA and was a sought after caller for dances and camps across the country. He was a choreographer of many popular dances and originator of the…

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, author and editor, was born in Newport, N.H. in 1788. She married in 1813, and when her husband died suddenly in 1822, she began writing to make a living. Her stories and poems attracted a large audience, and in 1828 she accepted a job as editor of the Ladies Magazine, later called Godey’s Ladies Magazine, “the best known of all American periodicals for women." There are three letters…

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), author and poet, was born and lived in South Berwick, Maine. Her best known works are The Country of the Pointed Firs and the short story “A White Heron”. Her first novel was Deephaven. The Sarah Orne Jewett Collection contains 9 letters written by Jewett from 1880-1891, various printed materials, and a family photo album.

The Saul O. Sidore Memorial Lecture series was established in 1965 in memory of Saul O. Sidore of Manchester, New Hampshire. The purpose of the series is to offer to the university community, the Manchester area, and the state of New Hampshire programs that raise critical and sometimes controversial issues facing our society. Under a grant from the Sidore Foundation, a committee of students, faculty, and…

Save Our Groundwater (SOG) operated from 2001-2017 in Seacoast New Hampshire. It was initially formed to block the establishment of a water bottling plant called U.S.A. Springs, Inc. in the town of Nottingham. This collection consists of scrapbooks, organizational papers, geologic and environmental surveys, court papers, bankruptcy proceedings for U.S.A. Springs, Inc., maps, ephemera, public relations materials, and…

“Save Our Shores” was a citizens group organized in 1973 to combat the proposal to build a massive oil refinery to be built on Great Bay just outside of Durham, N.H. Dudley Dudley played an integral part in the fight as a freshman legislator. She sponsored House Bill 18 that reaffirmed towns’ home-rule rights in decisions on large projects such as the oil refinery. The Legislature approved her bill the day after Rye and Durham residents overwhelmingly voted against zoning amendments needed for…