Details
Object ID : 000007
Object Name : Knight, Mary Pride - Diaries, 1837-1892
Object Desc : 11 boxes. Includes Lovewell transcript of diary (incomplete); Hankins transcript (complete) and in microfilm of orig. MS. diaries at Maine Hist. Soc. Also includes print-out of microfilm pages of diaries.; index. See "Object Details." Acc. #2019.009 .
Collection : Coll. 03, Mary Pride Knight Diaries
Accession # : 2014.104
General Category : Documents
Category : Diaries
Source Category : Gift
Accession Date : SEP 7,1994
Location : Range 4
Object Date : 1896
Start Year Range : 1837
End Year Range : 1892
Status : In Collection
Object Keywords : Diaries, 1837-1896,Brackett, Mary Pride (Knight),Brackett, Frederick,Brackett, Isabelle,Knight, Samuel (1792-1863),Knight, Stephen (1809-1893),Knight, Olive (1795-1867),Knight, Anna (Huston), d. 1850,Knight, Sally H. (b. 1805),Lovewell, Marguerite - Transc
Title : Mary Pride Knight Diaries, 1837-1896
Description : 11 document boxes. Box 1: Lovewell transcript; 2 reels of microfilm of original MS Box 2 and 3: Hankins transcript Box 4-10, Photocopy of microfilm. Box 10 # 26 and #27 contain index to Hankins transcript Box 10 # 28 has papers concerned with MPK as artist. Box 11 has binder containing photocopy of Lovewell transcript made for Nancy Hohmann's class. Also includes Hankins' index to this transcript.
Abstract : Diaries cover period 1837-1892, with entries made nearly every day. Originals are at the Maine Historical Society. They were kept in about 9 small hand-sewn paper booklets and are in rather fragile condition. Two transcripts: one by Marguerite Lovewell, with index by Jean Hanikins; one by Jean Hankins, with index.
Excerpts : Spurr's History contains several accurate quotes from the diaries.
Originator : Mary Pride Knight
Parties : Provenance of the diaries: After Mary's death, they were held by Mary's niece, Sybil (Knight) Lamb, wife of Nathaniel Lamb. Sybil Lamb, after husband's death, lived with friend Betsy Kemp on Scribner Hill (house owned in 2014 by Jean Hankins, 202 Scribner Hill Road). After deaths of Sybil and Betsy, the diaries were in attic. Frederick L. Pottle, nephew of Betsy Kemp, rescued diaries from attic and eventually donated them to Maine Historical Society, who still owns them. Microfilm edition, owned by OHS, resulted from a grant written by OHS and Maine Historical Society together. MHS also has microfilm copy and full copy of Hankins' transcript and index. Microfilming was done as part of a joint grant application from Otisfield Hist. Soc. and Maine Hist. Soc. The MHS and OHS both have copies of microfilm, transcripts, and index.