Photocopy of a transcript of a personal story told by Dorothea Gamsby relating to the Loyalist period in Boston, Quebec and New England, as recorded by her granddaughter, Belle Thorne. Transcribed by Mary Alice Downie for "Dorothea's story" an article by Downie published in Horn Book, volume 47, number 2, April, 1971, p.192. Location of original manuscript unknown, however portions of Dorothea's story was published as a series of articles in the "Coos County Democrat" (1859-1862), North Stratford, New Hampshire.
A letter from John Hunter-Duvar to the Historical Society of Nova Scotia in which he asks for recommendations or suggestions for a draft of an act of incorporation which is to be submitted to the Legislature.
The typescript is that of a daily business diary kept by Kirk for the year 1933. As his company entered its fifth calendar year of the depression Kirk decided to keep a diary of his business experience with the purpose of looking back at the diary in later years to garner any useful or interesting information. He writes in the foreword to the diary that he hopes that his "effort to daily summarize [his] experience will be an aid to clearer thought."
