Name/Title
PapersEntry/Object ID
2020.230.008Scope and Content
Collection of miscellaneous material relating to the Palmer, Loper and Babcock families and Stonington (from a folder set aside by Beth Moore re. the Palmer/Lopers):
*agendas (4), "Topics for Travel Club," 1912-1917 with lectures schedules November - May. Club members appear to be all or mostly women including Elizabeth Palmer Loper and Priscilla Loper (other local names include Mrs. Davis, Wilcox, Marston, Wood, Denison, Stone, Trumbull, Palmer, O'Brien, Mason, Dodge, Rice, Atwood, Williams, Smith)
*calling card, "Mr. & Mrs. George Sharswood, Jr." signed in pencil "Miss Babcock"
*wedding invititation to the wedding of Frances Freeman and Mr. Louis Babcock Palmer
*envelope addressed to Louis L. Palmer, Stonington, Conn., 1886
*receipt, Glyuna Club of Yale College, class dues for Louis L. Palmer, 1867 and program for the (Yale) Class of 1867 Jubilee, July 21
*check, Washington National Bank, Westerly, R.I., paid to Frank Noyes by Alex S. Palmer, May 4, 1891
*Stonington Tercentenary, 1649-1949, enveloped signed "Miss Loper," with Stonington Tricentennial stamp.
*rough copy of will, properties to be bequethed to Alexander S. Palmer, Jr., undated.
*letter to Charles B. Moore, Chairman of the Board of Fire Wardens for Stonington Borough re. a meeting of the fire wardens in response to a fire at Harris Pendleton's Mill, from A. Hyde, Nov. 25, 1879
*letter to the Committee of Stockholders of the New York, Providence and Boston Rail Road Co. from the Estate of Charles P. Williams, Stonigton, May 5, 1887
*Newspaper, The Palmer Vidette, Stonington, Conn., May 1882, with news items about Palmer family members locally and from across the U.S.