Ellen and Fanny Dear Nell contains over 50 images
including photos of the Havens and Pughs, their houses, Ellen's children, Civil War documents and more.
The book spans a period from the mid-1800's to the present.
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There are hundreds of additions to the original 6-volume Haven-Pugh Letter Collection.
In 2011, 45 new letters from Ellen to W.W. Pugh were transcribed from another collection. Over 85 legal and business letters involving David and Haven & Co., formerly thought unimportant, were transcribed, & more were added in 2013. In 2012, over 120 letters from the Haven family were transcribed (from another collection), and in 2013, over 370 pages of Ellen's account books were transcribed. Over 2400 items were cataloged in the Haven-Pugh Letter Collection. The transcriptions were verified against the originals and footnotes added as needed. A catalog spreadsheet (link is above) lists & describes each item, and indicates in which box and section it is located. All 2400 transcribed documents are available here in html format for research, as is the master spreadsheet catalog (see links above). As of Oct. 2017, over 8,500 pages have been professionally scanned. Ultimately the entire collection will be available to researchers as digital scans, html transcriptions, and for those who can travel, the originals will eventually reside at the Portsmouth Athenaeum in Portsmouth, N.H. |
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