Williamson, William D. (William Durkee), 1779-1846

Letter written in 1814 by William D. Williamson, then postmaster in Bangor, to Rev. Jedediah Morse, preacher, pamphleteer, and geographer, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. This letter contains the earliest known reference to a library in Bangor. The library, when opened, was called the Bangor Athenaeum. It was one of the six libraries operating in Bangor in various times between 1814 and 1883 which merged into the Bangor Public Library, founded in 1883.