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Eleanor Parmenter (1914-1994) was brought up with the Shakers at East Canterbury for several years along with several other orphaned and abandoned children. While at Canterbury, Eleanor attended school taught by Sister Marguerite Frost. She worked alongside the Shaker sisters and participated in many aspects of life at the Village, including the Shakers’ numerous plays, parades, and day trips. The Eleanor Parmenter…

Eleanor Wells wrote poetry and articles that she submitted for publication in various magazines. The Eleanor Wells Nudd papers contain correspondence and manuscripts.

In 1915 the Electrical Engineering Department offered a correspondence course in the use of measuring instruments. This folder contains booklets titled "Measuring Instruments and Integrating Wattmeters".

Elenore Freedman (b. 1926) has been called the "dean" of educational reform and advocacy in New Hampshire. She graduated with a B.A. in English from Radcliffe College in 1947 and began her career with the formation of a chapter of the League of Women Voters in MA in 1955. Over the years she held many important posts including as a director of the NH Council for Betters Schools, NH School Improvement Program (SIP),…

Artist, printer, sculptor and engraver best known for her abstract sculptures in wood. A Dec. 31, 1958 letter to William G. Gilger in which Abbe thanks Gilger for a Dec. 26th letter, suggests that Gilger write two Ithaca addresses for copies of her past books, and notes that “of the eight [books] which I printed in the last eight years, most are sold out.” Also included is an announcement for the publication of her book The Revelation of St. John the Divine.

Eliot Grant Fitch, son of Ida Eliot and Grant Fitch, was born on March 12, 1895. He attended St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire between 1910 and 1913. While at St. Paul’s, Fitch wrote his mother on an almost daily basis. In 1923 he began his banking career in the National Exchange Bank founded by his grandfather in 1857; when he retired at the age of seventy-seven in 1972, he was chairman of the board and…

Eliphalet Smith (1759-1836) was born in Newmarket, N.H., married Ann Bryant, and later became a successful merchant in Portland, Maine. A 20pp. manuscript containing satirical poems, copies of letters and articles written for local newspapers, and a copy of an erudite letter on the human character.

Elizabeth F. Ellet, (1818-1877), the first American historian of women, was born in upstate New York in October 1818. She became well-known for her collective biographies of women, most notably The Women of the American Revolution (1848). A two page letter to Messrs. Carey and Hart, Publishers of Philadelphia, Pa., in which Ellet discusses the notices she has written for her new book, The Charm. Ellet also comments…

Elizabeth Knowlton, mountaineer and writer, was born October 23, 1895 in Springfield, Massachusetts and began climbing in the White Mountains at age seven. The endeavor which proved central to her life and work was her attempt on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan with the other eight members of the German American Himalayan Expedition in 1932. She was one of the first women ever to reach that elevation. The Knowlton…

Illustrator and author of children’s books; her home in Mason, N.H. served as a model for many of her illistrations. Two letters written by Elizabeth Orton Jones with negatives and preliminary sketches for a 1957 painting commissioned by U.N.H. in honor of Charlotte Thompson. The letters, one to William B. Ewert and the other to Barbara White, express Jones’ wish to donate Jacob Abbot’s 10 volume set of Franconia Stories to the Dimond Library at UNH.

Prolific author of children's books who lived in Peterborough, NH. Letter from Elizabeth Yates to Mrs. Prugh informing her that she and Nora Spicer Unwin are unable to speak at a PTA meeting due to prior commitments.

Elizabeth Yates was a prolific American author. In 1938, her first book, High Holiday, was published by London publishing company A & C Black. She is perhaps best known for her 1951 Newbery Medal winning novel Amos Fortune, Free Man. She also received the Newbery Honor in 1944 for Mountain Born. The Road Through Sandwich Notch, with drawings by Nora S. Unwin, was published in Brattleboro, Vt. by Stephen Greene Press in 1973 and was influential in preserving that portion of New Hampshire for…

Kerry Elkin (1951-2009) was a fiddler, caller, and dancer from Cape Cod, Massachussetts. Most of the Kerry Elkin Papers consists of sheet music, reflecting a wide variety of styles and interterests.

New Hampshire author who wrote Let Me Show You New Hampshire. A 9 page typescript of The Witch's Cavern, a story about three children who explore a dangerous cave.

Elwin Eugene Muzzey (1923-?, UNH Class of 1946) was a native of New Hampshire who served in WWII before going on to study business and work in retail for many years. He lives in Ohio. The Elwin E. Muzzey collection consists primarily of letters written during the years 1943-1946 while Muzzey was stationed in the U.S. and briefly in China.

School register kept by Emily E. Tomlinson, a teacher in Newington, N.H., during the year 1872. New Hampshire school register: for the school in district no. 1 in the town of Newington, county of Rockingham. The register documents student attendance and the class curriculum for the year 1872.

Emlyn Metcalf Gill, born in Walpole, N.H., was a sportman and writer. Five letters written by Emlyn Gill. Gill wrote three of the letters to Eugene V. Connett, sports writer and founder of the Derrydale Press. They rail against “worm fishing” and present a case for dry-fly fishing as opposed to wet-fly methods. The other two letters, one of which concerns Connett, are addressed to Alfred Stoddart.

The Engineering Design and Analysis Laboratory was formed in 1965 as an interdisciplinary faculty group made up mainly of members of the College of Technology. The primary objectives are to give both faculty and qualified students experience in inventive engineering development where accomplishment is measured by actual results as much as it is by written reports. The "Edalhab" project began when the students decided to attempt building a model of the one their faculty were designing. The eight…

The Engineering Experiment Station was formed by the Board of Trustees in 1929, as a non-teaching division of the College of Technology. It wasn't until 1932 that the station began operation. It was established to provide professional engineering and scientific assistance to industry in New Hampshire. In 1971, the Engineering Experiment Station became part of the newly formed Center for Industrial and Institutional…

The College of Liberal Arts offers numerous faculty-directed study abroad programs to UNH studens from all its colleges. This collection contains information from both the Cambridge and London programs, dated 1993-2015. This collection consists of two boxes of office files, reports, photos, compact discs, and slides documenting the Cambridge and London England study abroad programs.

Edwin P. Dewey was a member of the Class of 1882. He was the first president of the University's Christian fraternity in 1881 and a vice president of the Alumni association in 1885. This series contains an article by Edwin P. Dewey, Class of 1882, which he presented to the UNH Library in 1934. It includes a letter to Dean Pettee, Dewey's former geometry teacher.

In 1925, Henry C. Burrows took over what was formerly The Star Brick Yard in Epping, N.H., originally opened in 1891 to manufacture a high grade sand struck brick. He renamed it Epping Brick Company (also known as Manchester Real Estate and Manufacturing Co.) and became its president. Brick manufacturing was one of the principal industries of the town, the brick being of a superior quality and having a ready market…

Epsilon Sigma Phi, founded on January 10-11, 1927 in Bozeman, Montana, is an honorary fraternity dedicated to fostering standards of excellence in the Extension System and to developing the Extension profession and the professional. The Nu Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi, founded on December 7, 1927 at the University of New Hampshire, was the 13th chapter organized in the country. The earliest records of the Epsilon Sigma Phi were lost in a fire on February 20, 1940. These records include member…

Epsom is a New Hampshire town in Merrimack County. 1860 Epsom, N.H. tax list that documents the various amounts paid by non-resident land owners for Epsom’s annual tax assessment.

Collector Eric N. Metcalf (b. 1953) is from south-eastern New Hampshire. The Eric Metcalf Collection on the New Hampshire Primaries contains materials from the 1988 and 1992 Democrat and Republican National Primary Races in the state of New Hampshire. It includes press releases, schedules, campaign flyers, speeches and statements from the various candidates involved. The collection also includes clippings from New Hampshire newspapers concerning AIDS as a campaign issue.

Lemcke was an author and resident of New York City. Two letters and a map from Ernest G. Lemcke, which accompany handwritten manuscripts of his three works: Tribal Hidage, or the First English Census; The Early History of the Gervisse, later called West Saxons (494-597); and The Burghal Hidage and the County Hidage; or, the Military Organization of Wessex and of English Mercia against the Danes by about 916 A.D..

Ernest Wilber Smith was born in Londonderry, NH on July 10, 1910. After graduating from Manchester Central High School, he enrolled in the College of Technology at the University of New Hampshire. While in college, he was a member of the Alpha Kappa Pi fraternity and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He received his BS in Civil Engineering 1932. This collection contains the laboratory experiments and some other course work…

The Milne Special Collections and Archives is located at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. The repository collects materials related to the social life, customs, and history of New Hampshire and greater New England. The Estate Inventory Collection consists of 19th century account books listing the credits, debits, and possessions of individuals who lived and died in New Hampshire.

Eugene Charles Maxam graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1926. While in Durham, Maxam was very active in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (R.O.T.C.). This scrapbook contains photographs representing a wide range of campus topics, 1920-1925. There are also many other items such as dance cards, programs, tickets, athletic schedules, etc.

Eunice Fowler was a single woman and spinster of Kingston, N.H Deposition of Eunice Fowler taken Nov. 26, 1777 by Josiah Bartlett. Fowler stated that Edward Brown, yeoman of Exeter, N.H., “by wheedlings and promises of great kindness” had “carnal knowledge of her body whereby she is now pregnant with a child.”

Evelyn Browne joined the UNH faculty as an Instructor in women's physical education, establishing the University's riding progam as well as coaching riflery and basketball. In 1973, her love of the outdoors led her to become one of the leaders of Save Our Shores, an organization which stopped the plans proposed to build a massive oil refinery on Great Bay just outside of Durham, N.H. In 1987 she donated six acres of…

Evelyn E. Handler assumed the duties of President of the University of New Hampshire on August 1, 1980. She was inaugurated on October 20, 1980. She was the University's 14th president and the first woman to hold the position. Prior to becoming president of UNH, Handler was the Dean of the Division of Science and Mathematics at her alma mater, Hunter College. On May 23, 1983 Handler left UNH to become the President…

Everett B. Sackett served the University of New Hampshire from 1938 to 1969 as a professor, Registrar, Dean of Student Administration and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He was commissioned by the University to write a history of the institution in 1973. The book that was produced is called New Hampshire's University: the Story of a New England Land Grant College. This collection contains the notes, draft…

Everett B. Sackett served the University of New Hampshire from 1938 to 1969 as a professor, Registrar, Dean of Student Administration and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. In addition he served on many committees including the Student Health Committee and the Memorial Union Building Committee. This collection consists of the files kept by Everett B. Sackett during his career at the University of New Hampshire…

The Board of Trustees' Executive Committee includes the Chair and Vice Chair of the Board and typically includes Committee and Subcommittee chairs. It is responsible for development and coordination of long range planning, collective bargaining, Board Governance, evaluation and compensation of the key officers of USNH. This series contains the minutes for the meetings of the Executive Committee.

This series contains the minutes of the meetings of the Executive Committee for the College of Liberal Arts. Included are discussions of curriculum changes and petitions from students.

The post of Executive Secretary, and later that of the Assistant to the President, was organized to assist the President of the University of New Hampshire in his duties. This collection contains the files of the Executive Secretary from 1926 to 1937, and those of the Assistant to the President from 1937 to 1946.

Exeter is one of the earliest towns in Rockingham County, NH. Two Exeter, NH deeds, one of which details land sold by the Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy to Jedidiah Lakeman (1792), while the other documents property sold by Samuel Rust to James Rundlett (1796).

This series contains the reports and agendas of the Board of Trustees' External Affairs Committee. This committee replaced the Alumni Relations Committee.

Professor Ezekiel Webster Dimond was born in Warner, NH in 1836. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1865. He became the first professor of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1868 where he worked until his death in 1876. For detailed information about Dimond's life see Joseph Walker's "Memorial Sketch of the Life and Character of Ezekiel Webster Dimond", Call Number: UA 22/7. The scrapbook was compiled by Ezekiel Dimond and covers the time during which he…

The Faculty Caucus at the University of New Hampshire is one of the committees which make up the Academic Senate. The Academic Senate is the legislative body at the University. The Faculty Caucus brings the issues of the faculty members to the Senate for consideration. This series contains the minutes for the meetings of the Faculty Caucus at the University of New Hampshire.

The Faculty Club was established in 1920. It continued in operation for 38 years until 1958 when the club building was torn down. In 1978, the Faculty Center was established in Grant House; and in 1993 the University club was established in Hood House. This series contains correspondence concerning the faculty club membership and activities.

In 1941, President Engelhardt organized six committees to formulate a “New Hampshire Charter” that would further elaborate the roles of the faculty. The collection includes the committees’ files as well as the original and revised copies of its report.

The Faculty Council functioned within the university senate to serve the president in an advisory capacity, to serve as an executive committee for the consideration of urgent matters arising between meetings of the senate, to consider and act upon all matters referred to or delegated to it by the senate. Its members were made up of the president, all the deans, and two elected members from each of the colleges. This series contains the records of the Faculty Council at the University of New…

The Arts and Sciences Division was formed in 1893 and was renamed the College of Liberal Arts in 1923. This series contains the minutes for the faculty meetings of the College of Liberal Arts.

The University of New Hampshire, incorporated in 1866 by the state legislature as the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, was one of the early land-grant institutions of public higher education established under the Morrill Act. First situated in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, the New Hampshire College relocated to its Durham campus in 1893 after Benjamin Thompson, a prosperous…

The Faculty Senate was the successor of the Academic Senate. Composed of elected representatives from the major departments of the University, the Senate assesses, clarifies, and develops the university's academic policies. The collection holds the agendas and minutes of the Senate since 1996.

The Faculty Tennis Club began in 1894 at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. The Club was for the male members of the teaching staff at the College. This collection holds the records of the Club.

Frances "Fanny" Maria Richardson was born in June 1844 in Cheshire Co., NH, daughter of Coloniel Cyrus Richardson and Celia Dresser. She married George Eli Hunt on 24 November 1868 in Greenfield, where she appears to have lived from at least 1856 on. She died November 4, 1868 at Greefield. Richardson's autograph book dates from when she was a young teen, and contains signatures, hair lockes, and dried flowers.

Little is known about the Farley family beyond the fact that they resided in Ipswich, Massachusetts. A Michael Farley built a textile mill in the town in 1830, but his relationship to the Farleys of these letters is unclear. James Farley moved to Boston, from where his letters to his mother and sister in Ipswich are written. The Farley Family collection consists of 37 letters written between 1796 and 1860, thirty…