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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The original letters, documents and scanned images of same are now held at the Portsmouth Athenaeum! A brief synopsis follows. There were 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, with more 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 are 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 transcribed documents are available here in html format for research, as is the master spreadsheet catalog. As of Sept. 2018, the scanning of the collection was completed, comprising over 8,500 scans. A big thank you goes to Steve Hemeon, who did the work over a 5 year period. Also in September 2018, the official deed of gift of the Haven Pugh Letter Collection was transacted, and the collection how resides at the Portsmouth Athenaeum in Portsmouth, N.H. |
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