Scope and Content Note
The papers of Frank L. Stickney (1858-1940) span the years 1850-1938 and consist of correspondence, financial material, writings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and miscellany pertaining to Stickney the Stickney family and allied Knowles family, most prominently his father, Francis H. Stickney, a warrant clerk in the United States Navy during the Civil War, as well as copies of Frank L. Stickney’s outgoing correspondence to poet Georgiana Klingle Holmes.
Included in the collection are two letters to Francis H. Stickney from Asa C. Winter written aboard the E. B. Hale, November 21-23, 1861, on the shipment of supplies and increasing hostilities in Virginia; a letter from a sailor aboard the Ossipee, May 19, 1864, on the blockade of Mobile, Alabama; a letter from Frank S. Hesseltine, January 1862, concerning activities in the 13th Maine Volunteers; a letter by J. O. Bradford, December 29, 1862, Colorado; official orders of Gideon Welles, 1865, and correspondence from relatives of B. W. Knowles of Richmond, Virginia, on the sectional crisis and the Civil War. Also in the collection is a letter to Francis H. Stickney’s wife, Elizabeth Lewis Stickney from her cousin, Milo Henry Lewis, of the 121st Ohio Infantry Regiment, on camp life during the Atlanta campaign. An additional item of interest includes a check dated 1879 endorsed by Mathew Brady.