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Copy of e-mail from George Bresnick to Lyn Horton regarding Katharine McDowell Rice's attendance as special student (age 50) for three years at Radcliffe College. Includes record of civic honors and activities (she was a member of the Woman's Peace…

3 pieces of paper with assorted information about Rice family and other relatives, other names mentioned are Randall, Palmer, Cottrell, Baldwin, Knight, Miller, Short, McClure. Also includes excerpt from "Worcester, It's Past and Present."

Civil War document. "War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress in Relation to Rebellion, Treasons and Slavery." by William Whiting, seventh edition. Boston, John L. Shorey, 1863. Paper covered, 151 pages. On top is written…

Civil War document. "A Thanksgiving Plea for Free Labor, North and South." Reverend A. S. Twombly, Albany, Munsell, 1864. Paper cover. 30 pages. Back is torn.

Civil War document "Letter of the Secretary of War Transmitting Report of the Organization of the Army of the Potomac, and of Its Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland under the Command of Major Geneneral George B. McClellan from July 26, 1861 to…

Parchment certificate of appointment for William Gorham Rice to be a member of the State Civil Service Commission of New York witnessed and signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt when he was governor of New York State in 1931. Containing a gold seal. This…

Parchment certificate of appointment for William G. Rice to be State Civil Service Commissioner of New York, signed by President Grover Cleveland and containing seal of the President of the United States, on May 13, 1895. This and 2006a-248 are…

Vellum Certificate of Honorable Discharge (Resignation) from the Fourth Regiment of Infantry in the Second Brigade and Fourth Division of the Militia of this Commonwealth (Massachusetts) at his own request. Signed by the Adjutant General (identify…

Vellum document as follows:"Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the Sheriff of our county of Hampshire, or his Deputy - Greeting Whereas William Rice of Worthington in said county by the consideration of our Court of Common Pleas holden at Northampton,…

Vellum document as follows: "Governor and Commander in Chief of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to William Rice, Esquire, -Greeting - You being elected on the third day of July A.D. 1818 to be Major in the fourth Regiment of Infantry, in the Second…

Vellum document as follows: "His Excellency Caleb Strong, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to William Rice, Gentleman, - Greeting - You being elected on the fourteenth day of May 1813 to be Ensign of a Company in…

Vellum document as follows: "His Excellency Caleb Strong, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to William Rice, Gentleman, - Greeting - You being elected on the seventh day of May 1816 to be Captain of a Company in…

Vellum certificate of appointment for William Gorham Rice to be State Civil Service Commissioner of New York, witnessed and signed by Charles Seymour Whitman and containing a red seal dated February 3, 1915. This and 2006a-248 and 2006a-249 are…

Booklet of Play, The Coming of the Mayflower" by Rosamond Kimball, published by the Interchurch World Movement of North America, 43 West 18th Street, New York, NY. 2 copies

Brown leather book "In Memorial - Dr. Alden March" To Mrs. James C. Rice with kind regards of Dr. and Mrs. Henry March, August 1870.

Hand-written genealogy for descendents of Thomas Clapp, father of Worthington resident, Samuel Clapp, born 25 July 1725 died 1809. 7 pages.

Typewritten copy of letter from William Gorham Rice, Jr. to Mrs. Forbes, dated 14 December 1917, S S U 66. Letter from the front in France during World War I. "Dear Mrs. Forbes, Many thanks for the Christmas present which has just come to lighten my…

This is a block of granite which serves as a sample of the NH granite used for the Gettysburg PA monument to 41 Commanders of the Civil War "not hitherto memorialized." This memorial (whose picture is in the Photographic Data Base # 2006-128, please…

Colored print of Rice and Seeley coats of arms by Roland-Smythe. "Secret et Hardi." On cream colored drawing paper. Was in frame which is in the basement. This DR is in PTG Box B because of its size.

This one page brief account of Ernestine Perry was given to Bee Smith by Pat Pease who then gave it to the WHS. It reads: "Ernestine Perry - lives in Maryland with her son. In 1952 on a Washington School trip from the Huntington High School, because…