Collection title: Harold A. Davis Papers
Collection number: MS 126
Dates of collection: 1940-1968
Size of collection: 1 box
Biography
Harold A. Davis was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. He spent most
of his life in Calais, Maine; graduated from Calais Academy in 1928; earned a
B.A. from the University of Maine in 1934, an M.A. in History from Columbia in
1937 and a PhD. from Columbia in 1950. He taught history at the University of
Maine 1941-42, held a Fellowship at Columbia, and taught history and was chairman of
the History Department at Bradford Junior College in Bradford, Mass. after 1944.
Harold Davis died in 1968.
Scope and Content Note
Notes and manuscripts of writings by Harold A. Davis on Maine history.
Included are notes and rough drafts for some of his articles.
Contents of Boxes
Box 420
Davis, Harold A. ed.
Dickens, Carlyle, and
Tennyson by James S. Pike. Edited
for the Atlantic Monthly by Harold
Davis.
Photocopy from Atlantic monthly, Vol.
164 No. 6, Dec. 1939, p. 810-819.
Davis, Harold A.
The Fenian raid on New Brunswick.
Photocopy from Canadian Historical
Review Vol. 36, No. 4, Dec. 1955, p. 316-334.
Davis, Harold A.
The Jaffa colonists from Downeast.
Photocopy from American Quarterly
Vol III, Winter 1951, p.344-356.
Notes, manuscripts, photographs
relating to the publications of H. A.
Davis.
Finding Aids for selected manuscript collections in the Special Collections Department at Fogler Library are accessible online in URSUS, in a browsable Guide to Manuscript Collections, and in a keyword searchable database. Please contact Special Collections at spc@umit.maine.edu or (207) 581-1686 for further information.
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