tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post4947144290639561212..comments2024-03-28T23:00:10.654-07:00Comments on Heirlooms Reunited: c1860 Letter from to "Hat" from "P. M.", Who Was Teaching Piano and Boarding at Perkins Hotel, Presumably Lyme, New HampshirePam Beveridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-4639950951703841092015-08-14T14:37:30.219-07:002015-08-14T14:37:30.219-07:00Wow - sure does sound as though you nailed it - an...Wow - sure does sound as though you nailed it - and in RECORD time! I'll amend the post and add a map of Lyme, New Hampshire. Many thanks! (I hope that Frank's bow skills improved with age)Pam Beveridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-83356090337077794182015-08-14T13:49:06.117-07:002015-08-14T13:49:06.117-07:00I believe that the Perkins Hotel was in Lyme, New ...I believe that the Perkins Hotel was in Lyme, New Hampshire. There is a photograph <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7Q-I_gXxVG0C&lpg=PA94&ots=psa7tUzrnt&dq=&pg=PA94#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Living in Lyme in 1880 were a <a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHRK-WC1" rel="nofollow">Francis Pushee and his sister Clara</a> (Francis, a.k.a. Frank, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wTYTAAAAYAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA246&ots=UycHboy_GX&dq=&pg=RA1-PA246#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">was a violinist</a>). There also was <a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHRK-DZ5" rel="nofollow">an Emma Perkins living in town</a>, and <a href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7WR-J9K" rel="nofollow">an Ella Gilbert grew up there</a>. Other surnames from the letter appear in Lyme as well.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01386406270744275223noreply@blogger.com