LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS DEWITT CUYLER 701 COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING B.GORDON BROMLEY CITY HALL SQUARE JOHN LEWIS EVANS GEORGE DOUGLAS HAY HAROLD EVANS PHILADELPHIA January 3 , 19 18 WILLIAM A. SCHNADER George B. Dorr, Esq., Bar Harbor, Me. Dear Mr. Dorr: I have your favor of December 31st, which I have read with the greatest interest. Mrs. Morrell has fully explained to me her plans which I think most wise from every standpoint. I shall of course be glad to render her every assistance possible. Your plans for the general development of the Island seem to be working out mogt wonderfully and with the co-operation from Washington, which is bound to come to the fullest extent in time, I do not think there will be a more attractive place on the face of the earth. With warm wishes for the New Year and hoping to see you soon, I am, Very faithfully, 701 COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING PHILADELPHIA December 24, 1917 George B. Dorr, Esq. Bar Harbor, Me. Dear Mr. Dorr: I have your very interesting letter of December 14th, which would have received an earlier reply but I was away when it came to hand and for the last few days have been very much pressed with work. It seems to me that what you are planning is most admirable and will tend to make the Island of Mt. Desert alto- gether the most attractive spot on the East- ern seaboard. I am in hearty accord with all the details you suggest and shall be only too glad to construct the path you have in mind for me, and appreciate your giving me the opportunity to do so. When all is completed, what & wonderful series of paths we will have: I trust you have not had the very severe December we have had here, but these Christmas days are very bright and pleasant and indeed we need a little brightening. I would of course be very glad to see you if you could arrange to stop over either to or from Washington. with warm regards and best wishes for the coming year, I am, Very faithfully, Homas Welkin Glor 701 COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING PHILADELPHIA January 4, 1917 George B. Dorr, Esq. Bar Harbor, Me. Dear Mr. Dorr: I have your very interest- ing letter of the 2nd instant. I am sure we all owe a debt of gratitude to you for the way in which you are developing the natural resources of lit. Desert Island and placing them on a basis that must for all time preserve the beauty of the Island. I am glad the Jesup Path is to play so worthy a part in the development and I cannot thank you enough for all you have done in regard to the construction of this Path. I shall of course be glad to serve in any capacity that you desire, for while I am rather seeking to get out of things and especially to have my summer rest clear, I feel it is the duty of everyone who can to assist you in the work you are so ably carrying out. If you are passing through the City, I hope you will let me know and stop over and take lunch with me. With best wishes for the New Year, , I am, Very faithfully, Morris He Will Gill LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS DE WITT CUYLER 701 COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDIN B.GORDON BROMLEY CITY HALL SQUARE JOHN LEWIS EVANS GEORGE DOUGLAS HAY HAROLD EVANS PHILADELPHIA November 27, 19 16 WILLIAM A. SCHNADER George 3. Dorr, Esq., Bar Harbor, Me. Dear Mr. Dorr: I have your favor of the 25th instant and am glad to know that the Jesup Path is approaching completion. I am much obliged to you for all the care and supervision you have given to it. I enclose cheque for $1500 being estimated balance necessary to com- plete the work. I am, Very truly, Morn LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS DE WITT CUYLER 701 COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING B.GORDON BROMLEY CITY HALL SQUARE JOHN LEWIS EVANS GEORGE DOUGLAS HAY HAROLD EVANS PHILADELPHIA July 19, 1917 WILLIAM A. SCHNADER George B. Dorr, Esq., Bar Harbor, Me. Dear Mr. Dorr: While recently in Bar Harbor, I went over the Jesup Path and was much disappointed at its condition and the progress that has been made towards its completion. When I went over it with you about the middle of September last, you had hoped it would be finished by the end of October. In point of fact, no work has been done on it since then and the path, even what has been built, has suffered from the winter weather. You remember you wrote me in September that the path wan about completed and asked for an additional $1000 to complete the work, which I sent you, making, I should estimate $3000 in all which was your estimate for the entire completion of the Path. I should judge that at least 50% of the work has yet to be done and Mr. Lyscomb advises me that for the work already done, he has been paid $1600. I am unwilling to have the Path remain long in its present condition and very desirous of having it completed. I should be glad to hear from you at an early date as to just what you have in mind. I should be greatly disappointed if the Path is not completed in its entirety this summer. With kind regards, I am, Very faithfully, LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS DE WITT CUYLER B.GORDON BROMLEY 701 COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING CITY HALL SQUARE JOHN LEWIS EVANS GEORGE DOUGLAS HAY HAROLD EVANS PHILADELPHIA August 10, 1917 WILLIAM A. SCHNADER George B. Dorr, Esq., Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Dorr: I wrote Dr. Keen in reference to what you have in mind on Mt. Desert Island and have received the enclosed letter in reply, from which you will see that he takes hold very cordially to the idea and will be very glad to see you and talk over the subject. He gives quite in detail his movements and doubtless when you are ready you will arange a meeting with nim. If I am in Philadelphia, I will be glad to assist in any way. I expect to return to Bar Harbor on the 16th. I am, Very faithfully, Gly Bar Harbor, Me., November 25, 1916. Mr. Thomas De witt Cuyler, 701 Commorcial Trust Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Mr. Cuylor: I had expended twenty-five hundred dollars on the Josup Path and its borders at the beginning of November. One thousand mora will complete it, according to my estimate. This will be mainly spent this winter on building the Path across the frozen moadow, which it is impossible to take a toam upon at any other season, and I have arranged for keeping a gravel pit half a milo away frost-protected to supply material. I have received from you $2,000 out of the $3500 I estimated as the Path's cost and have now expended some $600 more: as most of the balance will be spent within the next few weeks I think it will be best to let me have a check now to cover the remainder, spent and unspent, of the estimated cost. $1500. The path has worked out extremely well and I think that we shall all take great perman- ent pleasure in it. I have worked broadly for its interest and beauty. With kind regards. Sincerely yours, LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS De WITT CUYLER 701 COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING B.GORDON BROMLEY CITY HALL SQUARE JOHN LEWIS EVANS GEORGE DOUGLAS HAY HAROLD EVANS PHILADELPHIA August 23, 19 16 WILLIAM A. SCHNADER George B. Dorr, Esq., Ber Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Dorr: I have your lotter of the 20th instant and enclose check for $1000. on account of the Jesup walk. As I understand it, I have already advanced $1000. and I should be glad if you could give me approximately what the path 85 extended will cost. You have acted very generously in regard to the golf transfer and I am sure it will be appreciated by all the members of the Association. The Association of course will see to it that the conditions under which you deeded the land are fulfilled. I am, Very faithfully, Thomas Will LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS DEWITT CUYLER 701 COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING B.GORDON BROMLEY CITY HALL SQUARE JOHN LEWIS EVANS GEORGE DOUGLAS HAY HAROLD EVANS PHILADELPHIA December 6, 1915 WILLIAM A. SCHNADER George B. Dorr, Esc., Bar Harbor, Me. Dear Mr. Dorr: I have your several favors of November 27th and December 1st. In reference to the expense incurred by the Selectmen in installing a proper S stem of accounting for the Town, I agree with you that this is a wise thing to do . As to the proportion of the expense essumed by you and Mr. Fabbri, I would be very glad to help you out and enclose cheque for $100. I have read with interest the progress you are making in the Jesup Memorial Walk, and am extremely obliged to you for all the trouble you have taken. If you will let me know the cost whenever you need the amount, I will at once send cheque. I am also very glad to note that the Ocean Drive will be improved for the coming season. I am, Very faithfully, Thomas WeNa Cuylor LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS DEWITT CUYLER B.GORDON BROMLEY 701 COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING JOHN LEWIS EVANS CITY HALL SQUARE GEORGE DOUGLAS HAY HAROLD EVANS PHILADELPHIA March 6, , 19 16 WILLIAM A. SCHNADER George B. Dorr, Esq., Bar Harbor, Me. My dear Vr. Dorr: I have to thank you for your favor of the 1st instant and have read with great interest its contents. It seems me that the path you propose is most comprehensive in its nature and nothing could be more appropriate than that portion of it which is dedicated to Mr. and Mrs. Jesun and it with the path that is to be built by the town will make a most attractive and desirable im- provement on the Island. I am extremely obliged to you for all the thought and time you have given to this subject. I have a letter from Mr. Lynam to-day which rather gives me hope that the money necessary to provide the additional nine holes will be forthcoming at an early date. I am, Very faithfully, Bar Harbor, Maine, March 1, 1916. Thomas DeWitt Cuyler, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Mr. Cuyler: I have just received from the surveyor -- who has been delayed upon it by town and other work -- a map or sketch that I directed him to make some time ago, showing the plan that I had finally adopted for the Jesup Memorial Path. I wished, for the warm feeling I have regarding Mrs. Jesup's noble public gift and my own association with it, to do all that was possible to give this path of corresponding name -- associated now with her as well -- a corresponding character, in its own way, of public usefulness and interest. I studied over half a dozen different possibilities, accordingly, and this which the sketch shows is what finally approved itself as best. I wished, if I could, to link the town, as a town, with it in memorial action, upon the Library's account, and I wanted also to bring it at its start as near as possible to Mr. and Mrs. Jesup's former home beheath the Malvern hill. And at its other end I wanted to link it with the lands that we are now about to offer to the Government again, with perfected deeds and bettered boundaries. The plan I have adopted does all these, and more. There is a little open wood of oaks and other long-lived trees in the angle between the road the Jesup house -- now yours -- is on, or rather the Harden Farm Road which continues it, and Cromwell's Harbor Road -- near the Building of Arts and bordered by the golf links on its western side, over which one looks to the mountains and Public Reservation lands. There this path will start, under the shade of an old, wide-branching oak and connected with the path leading to the Building of Arts. This first portion of it I am counting on the town to take some part in building, within its roadway limits, placing, as I should like to have it do, a commemorative tablet beneath this oak telling of its reason for the act. From hence southward the path will lead, as the sketch shows, along the roadside for a distance, skitting first the present golf links to the crossing of the brook, and then the new links planned upon the other side if these are built, till it leaves the roadside altogether at a point of striking view -- and descends, facing the mountains Thomas DeWitt Cuyler, # 2. it is leading toward, and bends, taking a straight and shaded way -- with an ultimate effect, though wilder, like that of some of the old Pleached Alley walks abroad -- across the level meadow which intervenes between this and the mountain Reserva- tions. Near the end of this straight course it enters the Reservation lands now offered to the Government, where these come down upon the wooded meadow, and then turning, winds up the mountain side through some of the finest woods yet left upon the Island, to connect above with the Homans and other memorial paths already built or building - paths which lead on in turn to the high crag that overhangs the gorge and meadow, and ultimately to the mountain's southern front beyond. Connecting also, before it leaves the meadow, with other paths -- of which Mrs. Kane's is one -- planned to ultimately lead on through the Gorge and Eliot Woods to Otter Creek and the Island's southern shore. This makes a path that cannot be duplicated in the important territory that it serves, and that once built will be in constant use, by townsfolk as well as summer people. It is moreover the one and only way that offers opportunity for the town's taking part in the memorial, which will add an element of unique distinction to it, differentiating it from every other. Believe me Yours sincerely, Copy Bar Harbor, Maine, September 16, 1916. Dear Mr. Cuyler; I write this word that all may be clearly understood between us as to the Jesup Path expenses. Our first thought of it, last fall, was of a path similar in cost and character to Mrs. Anson's and that planned in memory of Mrs. Homans, whose estimated cost I gave you as $1500. each. This, you said, would be all right, or even more if it should prove desirable. On studying it over Inter I came to the con- clusion that not a mountain path tike these, but the level walk I am now building, which connects with Mrs. Kane's and links the town and moun- tain paths together, would be at once the most distinctive, the most used, and the better suited to its purpose of association. This I told you when we met in Philadelphia this spring, and asked you -- in view of what you had said last fall if the cost of this, according to my estimate, $2500. would be within your bounds. You said it would, and approved the plan. This $2500. was my estimate of the cost of path construction from the Harden Road to the Kane path, a distance of About a mile, roughly speaking, and double the length of these other paths. In this path the element of rock construction is eliminated, but an element of drainage enters in which more than outweighs it and to which is added the serious initial difficulty of bringing in material for path building where no team can enter till the fill is placed. It is only, frankly, by my sharing, as I am most glnd I can, in the undertaking by contributing toward it work already done, that it can be done at all within the bounds I stated: but this also entered 2- into my first calculation and I wished to do it. The section along the town road, which I meant the town should build but which you have lately expressed your wish to build yourself, is close on to 2000 feet in length, I find, from Kebo Brook to the Harden Farm road-crossing; and this, on which work is now advancing rapidly, my experience 80 far shows will cost not under, but not far exceeding if at all, 50 cents a foot, or one thousand dollars for that main piece. From there up the hill, the path cannot be built, I find, until the town rebuilds the road, which it probably will do next spring, and will in its construction leave little to do in order to complete the walk along its side to the intended starting point. The work through- out is being done with exceptionally little waste, but it covers a long stretch. My estimate, I should add, was made with reference to the path construction only, but the present opportunity to also loam as I , em doing the path sides now while it may be done 80 well,is such a rare one ; and taking it is so important to the future beauty of the path, and its shade trees, that I shall do at much of it as I can within your stated bounds. I hope ultimately to have this path become a true wild Garden walk from end to end, and beautiful accordingly, but this lies of course beyond the bounds of path construction. The continuation of the double line of shading path-side trees which I began along the town road-side opposite the Catholic Cemetery might be worth considering, however, at this time; a C: it will, at best, need time before they can become established and fulfil their purpose. Yours sincerely,