Petersham Committee on Public Safety
- HF-ID: HF1917-01
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Fisher, R.T.
- Date: 1917
- Location: Petersham MA
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Keywords: petersham history
- Abstract:
- Materials from R. T. Fisher's time as treasurer of the Petersham Committee on Public Safety
- Folder 1: Bank records
- Folder 2: Bills and receipts
- Folder 3: Correspondence [see also R.T. Fisher Correspondence file]
- • Dennen, J. H. – 2 letters regarding account balances
- • Eaton, C. E. – check for the fund of the Petersham Committee on Public Safety
- • Emmerton, Caroline – offer to send check for the fund
- • Green, John B. – response to bill
- • Grose, L. R. – series of letters to Grose addressing rumors that the government seized potatoes from farmers; letter to R.T. Fisher about Milton Camp
- • Harlow, J. W. – Denner’s beans and account; bean sales
- • Higginson, M. G. – note granting permission for land to be used for gardens
- • Milton Academy – copy of letter from R.T. Fisher on behalf of the Food Committee accepting offer from Milton Academy to place a camp of boys in Petersham for the summer; letter from Headmaster (W. L. W. Field) regarding camp account
- • Tapley, Alice P. – interest in helping to increase food production; offer to send funds
- • Waldo Brothers, Inc. – offer to order food products; copy of letter to R.T. Fisher from Llewellyn Howland regarding arrangements for a camp of boys from Milton Academy being placed in Petersham; 3 letters from C. S. Waldo regarding food production in Petersham
- • Woolsey, John M. – letter with contribution [to Committee on Public Safety]; letter with check to be used for taking a Farm Census in Petersham
- • Worcester County Farm Bureau – agricultural census; response to order for jars
- Folder 4: Census account
- Folder 5: Other related materials
- Archives Location: Middle Room, Petersham History file
- Access: Active