From collection Creating Acadia National Park: The George B. Dorr Research Archive of Ronald H. Epp

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Preservation of Dorr's Papers
Preservation of
Dorr's Papers
the
Samuel G. Ward to Mary G. W. Dorr
1608 K Street, Wash. D. C.
19 Nov 199
My dear Mary:
Though you cling so to Bar Harbor in the autumn
I suppose by this time you may be settled in Commonwealth
Ave ? & well I trust ? Anna & I go on quietly, better I
think, than a year ago.
In arranging my papers Ec notes it occurs to me that
I always meant to have a copy of Grandfather Ward's little
memoir. I believe you have it, & if you would send it to me,
registered, I would have typewritten copy made & return you
the original. I believe there is a copy but I forget who
has it.. Was our first American ancestor Miles or Joshua ?
Miss Angier is improving in her work with a new
Fourty lens
If you like to send me any pictures as suggested some
time since, they will be copied &c returned as soon as the
requisite sunshine is secured to do them.
When you see Mrs Whitman, pray say to her that the
smallest sketch from her hand in remembrance would be most
gratefully received.
My kind regards to George. Anna sends love to you
both.
Affectionately
Sam'l G. W.
Samuel G. Ward to Mary G. W. Dorr
1608 K. St. N. W.
Dec'r 3d, 199
My dear Mary:
good
My best thanks for your two -notes and for
the box of pictures just arrived, but not yet opened, and
for the manuscript which I shall receive tomorrow no doubt.
The copy you send would answer all my purposes for making
a typewritten one, but what you say about the original in
Book form "with a good many other family papers" makes me
curious to see that also as I may find other things of inter-
est I may wish to have copied to add to my own collections
of memoranda. Don't fail to have anything you send register-
ed.
I enclose herewith several of Miss Angier's late
photographs which we think are an advance on the earlier ones.
They are mounted on pages like the book I sent you so you
can add them to the book by simply untying the string. I
3
also send a little volume of Emerson's tales which I thought
of too much interest not to be published. I said nothing
about it at the time of publication to anyone, so that it's
connection with me might not get into the newspapers & re-
porters be calling on me for my photo and a short account
of my life ! But of course it is an open secret.
Anna sends you best love. Except that her hands are
nearly helpless from gout, & that she cannot lie comfortably
at night but has to half sit up in bed & not turn over, her
Samuel G. Ward to Mary G. W. Dorr
-2-
Dec'r 3, 199
condition is better than a year ago. She sits up reading
much of the day by the window. I am also for the moment in
better ease than usual, but scarcely dare say so, my experi-
ence being that to brag is apt to bring a reverse. We are
GBD
glad to learn that George found so great a resource in his
Its
gardening. No pleasures are endless.
Affectionately
S. G. W.
Samuel G. Werd to Mary G. W. Dorr
1608 K. Street,
Dec'r 14, 199
My dear Mary:
The pictures are photographed and being packed
up to go home. We think them a success, & send you prints
of them which you can put into your book. The Wm Candid is
copied, too, & the M. S. will go to you forthwith, with many
thanks. I find it extraordinarily interesting. I don't be- -
lieve I had read it for half a century or more & had forgot-
ten how good it was. I will have it printed with other
family documents for the family only. You didn't acknowledge the
little book of prints I sent you. (I hope you are not ill.
By the way, after this book was gone it struck me
I had written your initials M. G. W. instead of M. G. W. D.
If so, will you please add the D. It was mere inadvertance
which I am so subject to that I hardly trust myself to
?
up a cheque.
Anna & both of us have been much afflicted by the
death of Mrs Rhine lander here, where they had come for a mild-
er winter She had been a most devoted friend.
With her
love to you & G.
Affectionately,
S. G. W.
Samuel G. Ward to Mary G. W. Dorr
May 1900.
My dear Mary:
I am glad to hear of you in such vigor as you
show in going to Lenox to put the house in order.
I had not forgotten the book of old Mss - far from
it - but as my posthumous volume will contain most of what
is valuable in it, including Wm Candid's narration, and the
proofs are only just now beginning to come in, I shall need
it for some months to come. By the way, as to its ultimate
disposition, you and I being the last of our generation,
what do you think of our passing it on while we are here to
4.
Ampt.
the next generation in the Ward name, where alone it can be
the
of value - Say to Tom with a letter from us requesting that
it be always passed on to the oldest possessor of the Ward
the
name.
( note there has been a regular succession of Wards,
mostly eldest sons, from Miles Ward.
To insure its care, I think a case should be made for
it, & marked. I am glad to know I may expect your photograph
to make my number complete.
We expect to leave for West End on 24th if Annis well
enough, which always makes our moving an anxious question.
Please regard all I have said about my book as confi-
dential.
Affectionately yours,
S. G. W.
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The commissions were issued by the King and his High Admiral Charles de Montmorency, Dec. 18, 1603
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Facsim. of ed.: Paris : [P. Patisson], 1605.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
to
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Gho
WASHINGTON
make this twenty thousand presently, including in it something
like thirty square miles. This will take in the whole moun-
tain range and its adjoining valleys, together with good
wharfages and sea approaches, and a considerable extent of
shore.
On the historic side, keeping alive the memory of a
singularly interesting period in the settlement of the country
and of the part France took in that settlement, the Monument
has a distinct mission. It can enrich the national life
with memories and associations we have been losing sight of.
This back-ground of history, I find, interests everyone
who comes here very greatly and is already becoming through the
Sieur de Monts Publications a feature of the Monument. I have
these publications on distribution at two places, the Govern-
ment office and at the Sieur de Monts Spring entrance to the
Monument, of which Secretary Lane can tell you. It interested
him more, he told me as he was going off, than any other thing
he saw here, in its combination of the wildness of nature and
the human touch. There, opposite the entrance to the Emery
path which leads to Sieur de Monts Crag and on over Dry Mountain
to the Island summit, I have placed a simple little building
sixteen feet square with a sanded floor and with a round oak
table I gave for the purpose in the middle; the Crag looks down
on it. On the table these publications are kept, spread out,
and the door is open. A constant stream of people already
passes there in summer time and carries off these pamphlets. It
4.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
WASHINGTON
has become, from a seemingly remote and unfrequented spot one
of the most frequented spots on the Island within the last two
years, it being first opened to the public on the creation of
the Monument.
Placed where the Monument is, with its railroad, motor,
and water connections -- and air connections doubtless present-
ly -- it is bound to be a point of great resort in the future,
as it is developed and takes on a park-like aspect. Villa
residence is already occupying the shore as far as the
Penobscot, in practically unbroken occupation. The time is
not distant when the park will present the only tract of
really wild land upon the whole coast. The problem is, as I
stated in my paper, to maintain its atmosphere of wildness
and of natural beauty in the presence of the many thousand
people who will annually visit it.
Another matter I am studying over now is to make resort
to it inexpensive, so that people of moderate means or on
salary can come to it freely. This is a matter that I talked
over with Mrs. Lane when she and Secretary Lane were here,
I can get people boarded now at not exceeding fourteen dollars
a week, and this is the first year -- owing to war prices
when it would have been as high. But to provide for people
at such rates on a large scale new accommodations will have to
be provided, and it is this question, of location and the cost
of building, which I am working on. The railroads will make
special rates for such visitors to the park, I have ascertained.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK
and
BAR HARBOR, MAINE
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OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT
June 15, 1922.
Dear Mr. Eaton:
I shall be glad to do anything I can to supply you with
information concerning our undertaking here. The Sieur de Monts National
Monument became a national park, under the title of Lafayette National
Park, in February, 1919. It now takes rank as the only national park
in the eastern United States, apart from war memorials. The land
has been, throughout, a gift to the Government for the benefit of the
people, but Congress makes annual appropriation for it as for its other
parks. It has its office at Bar Harbor.
The extent of the park is much greater than it was when
Joke
the lands were first accepted by the Government and is increasing
steadily by further gifts. All this land now constitutes an absolute
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sanctuary for wild life, protected by Government rangers. Its character
is such - mountainous and well wooded, with lakes and streams, and
lying on the border between sea and land in the coast migration route
of birds - as to fit it for wild life in many and various forms. In
connection with this, a biological laboratory was established last
year on land secured by me for such purpose a number of years ago on the
northern shore of the Island, at Salisbury Cove, and I am enclosing you
a pamphlet issued to announce its establishment, having none more recent
at hand.
2.
With regard to publications relating to the park, each
national park is allowed to print at the Government's expense one publica-
tion only, containing .ith other matter its rules and regulations. Of this,
which contains an article which I wrote originally for Appalachia, the
journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, I enclose a rew copies. Should
you want others, my office can furnish you with any number you may desire,
it being printed by the Government for free distribution. The earlier
publications that I made as part of my campaign IOr the park's establish-
ment were printed in small editions only, and are now mainly out of
print. I have others now in press which will be obtainable from the
park office when printed, at a price to cover cost, and this I shall be
glad to have you state as well as the fact of the free distribution of the
Rules and Regulations paper and that my office - the office of Lafayette
National Park - will gladly answer any letters that may be written it or
any questions asked.
Quote what you will from Mr. LaFarge's letter, giving him credit
only - as I have done.
Please ..rite if I can do more to help you.
Yours sincerely,
Gonza B. worr
The publications will go iorward under
separate cover.
IN 1932 THE HOME GEOGRAPHIC MONTHLY (v. 2, #1) PUB LISHED AN
ARTICLE BY GEORGE B. DORR TITLED "ACADIA, THE SEACOAST PARK. Sp 43-48,
This publication was established by Home Geographic Society of Worcester, Mass., an
"educational institution" founded by a host of academics affiliated with Harvard,
Columbia, and Clark University among others. Fairfield Osborne., President of the
American Museum of Natural History, was an incorporator as well.
Its purpose was "to create and promote interest in geography among achildren; to
promote friendly and sympathetic relations among the children of the world; to assemble
"
and distribute geographic materials, slides, films, specimens, etc
This article is not written strictly for a juvenile audience and the publication "is SO rich in
interesting information and educational value that everyon e, shild or sdult, finds it
readable and engrossing."
Model? National Geographic Magazine .
Source: Frances LaCourse. Aunt of Ardra Tarbell, NPS park office employee of Mr.
Dorr. May 2006