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- Creator
- Merrill, Charles Benjamin
- Call number
- MssCol 1972
- Physical description
- .21 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
- Charles Benjamin Merrill diary, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Charles Benjamin Merrill kept this diary from April 14, 1844-July 22, 1847 while he was a student at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and during vacations at home in Portland, Maine. Entries refer to lectures and teachers; sermons, often mentioning names of preachers; fraternity activities; social life; part time library work; sports; concerts; weather conditions; trips to Boston, Cambridge, Concord, Hanover, and other locations; commencement exercises; politics, including a mention of President James K. Polk's visit to Portland on July 2, 1847; and other topics
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Subjects
- College students -- Maine -- Brunswick -- Diaries
- College students -- Maine -- Social life and customs
- Education -- New England -- 19th century
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Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328