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Amherst College Alumni Biographical Files
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Unpublished Manuscripts in Alumni Biographical Files and Class Shelves
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Class Year
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Name
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Date
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Description
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| 1827 |
Tinker, Reuben |
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Autobiography. The Life of Reuben Tinker (tss) |
| 1825 |
Class of 1825 |
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Mss describing class |
| 1828 |
Bullard, Asa |
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Account of the Class of 1828; Correspondence |
| 1828 |
Hibbard, S. |
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Volumes of autographs, short verse, diary items, divided by freshman, sophomore, junior and senior, 2 vols. |
| 1830 |
Tyler, William S. |
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Correspondence |
| 1830 |
Merrick, James L. |
1827-1856 |
Diaries (5 vols.) |
| 1835 |
Dwight, John |
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Diary (through 1852) |
| 1837 |
Bliss, Edwin E. |
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Diaries |
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Diaries, 2 vols. |
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Diaries of Isabella Holmes Porter (Bliss), 2 vols |
| 1839 |
Bacon, George |
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Bill from A.C. |
| 1839 |
Mill, Thomas A. |
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Diary |
| 1839 |
Miller, Thomas A. |
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Diary |
| 1839 |
Stone, William |
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Bill from A.C. |
| 1839 |
Wing, A. |
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Diary |
| 1840 |
Batchelder, James L. |
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Journal |
| 1841 |
Brooks, Sidney |
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Ledger; Correspondence |
| 1841 |
Parker, S. J. |
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Historical facts and remarks made by request for Alumni Record of Amherst College |
| 1844 |
(Non-Grad) Hubbard, William |
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Expelled from Amherst for card playing and chicken stealing (for more on chicken stealing see Amherst Sketches, 1897) |
| 1845 |
Lee, John S. |
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Autobiography of John Stebbins Lee; Correspondence (dealing particularly with the poor condition of the college in the 1840s) |
| 1849 |
Hammond, William G. 1844-1848 |
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Journal (2 vols.) |
| 1849 |
Hitchcock, Edward |
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List of the second generation of Amherst College students ending with the year 1878 - 79 |
| 1849 |
Lobdell, Henry |
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Diary; Correspondence (indexed) |
| 1849 |
Locke, Calvin |
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Correspondence (describing professors and classes especially) |
| 1849 |
Peck, Henry |
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Correspondence |
| 1849 |
Root, Martin |
1847- 1851 |
Diary |
| 1851 |
Class of 1851 |
1848-1849 |
Resolution of Sophomore Class disagreeing with proposal of senior class for a policing policy by undergraduate body. See papers of President E. Hitchcock. |
| 1851 |
Overton, Floyd |
1850 |
Notes on Zoology and Geology lectures given by Prof. Charles Baker Adams and Pres. Edward Hitchcock |
| 1851 |
Stewart, Robert |
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Poem: "Fellowship" |
| 1852 |
Class of 1852 |
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Establishment of the "Philopogonia Society" -- an agreement to ban shaving for one term among the class of 1852 |
| 1852 |
Bliss, Daniel |
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College expenses |
| 1852 |
Fish, Elija S. |
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Ledger |
| 1852 |
Harrington, Brainerd T. |
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Correspondence with his brother |
| 1852 |
Porter, Charles L. |
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Poem: "The Dream" |
| 1852 |
Sabin, Henry |
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Poem: "A Legend of the Mohawk" |
| 1854 |
Hallock, Charles |
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Record of an Errant Life. Memoirs of Charles Hallock |
| 1854 |
Olcott, Edward B. |
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Letter |
| 1854 |
Underhill, John Winn |
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Correspondence |
| 1855 |
Caldwell, John C. |
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Correspondence |
| 1855 |
Washburn, George |
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Personal Recollections (tss). See also: file of his son, George Washburn (AC 1882), for correspondence between the two |
| 1856 |
Hand, Edwin C. |
1832 - 1865 |
Civil War Papers |
| 1857 |
Carr, William O. |
1853-1857 |
Correspondence "The Amherst Diary of W.O.C. 1853 - 1857" (tss), includes account of the undergrad "revival" of 1855 |
| 1857 |
Frisbie, Alvah |
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Class Poem: "The Scholar's Mission" |
| 1857 |
Grassie, Thomas |
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Essay: "Leanness vs. Fatness"; Essay: "Statement of Facts," addressed to the class of 1861 encouraging them to join the Alexandrian Society |
| 1858 |
Delano, Henry G. |
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Correspondence |
| 1858 |
Thomas, Henry G. |
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Correspondence |
| 1858 |
Ellsworth, Alfred A. |
1853-1856 |
Diary |
| 1859 |
Constantine, George |
1857-1860 |
Journal, 3 vols. |
| 1859 |
Clafin, James F. |
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Poem: "Our New England Home" |
| 1859 |
Dana, Malcolm |
1858 Jun 21 |
Treasurer's Report to the Athenian Society, apologizing for zeal as treasurer which was interpreted as malice. |
| 1859 |
Hawkes, Joshua G. |
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Essay about Hawkes: "A Massachusetts Soldier at the Siege of Port Hudson, 1863"; Essay: "Picket Duty"(accounts of his life in the army) |
| 1860 |
Boardman, Moses B. |
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Poem: "Ramble to Holyoke" |
| 1860 |
Cannon, Horace |
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Correspondence |
| 1860 |
Fullerton, Bradford |
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Correspondence |
| 1860 |
Holmes, Henry Martyn |
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Clips from college life |
| 1860 |
Little, Joseph B. |
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Correspondence |
| 1860 |
Ward, James W. |
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Poem: "Garibaldi" |
| 1861 |
Andrews, Edwin N. |
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Poem: "Pugnae Caninae"; poem about dogfighting, an apparently popular pastime in Amherst, written for the Express
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| 1861 |
Apthrop, John P. |
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Correspondence |
| 1861 |
Dyer, Ebenezer Porter 1852-1870 |
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Journal (1852-1857); "Life on a Plantation. A Diary" (1862 - 1870); Plantation Book, census and manuscript stories (1862) |
| 1861 |
Fullerton, Bradford |
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Correspondence; Poems: "Avarice and Covetousness," "Life," "The Dead" |
| 1861 |
Harmon, Elija |
1857, n.d. |
Correspondence; Rhyme book (Feb. 1857) |
| 1861 |
Herrick, Samuel E. |
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Correspondence and memorabilia |
| 1861 |
Leach, Joseph A. |
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Civil War Correspondence |
| 1861 |
Sanford, Elliot |
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Correspondence |
| 1862 |
Knight, Alva A. |
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Correspondence describing Civil War experiences |
| 1863 |
Bond, Thomas S. |
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Essay: "Life in a Country Minister's Family" |
| 1863 |
Pennell, Christopher |
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Collection of personal reminiscences and correspondence from Civil War and college |
| 1863 |
Stearns, Frazar |
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Civil War Correspondence |
| 1863 |
Wells, George Huntington |
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Correspondence |
| 1864 |
Guilford, Jones |
1864 |
Journal |
| 1864 |
Whitcomb, George H. |
1860-1871 |
College expenses (1860-1871); Correspondence as a trustee |
| 1865 |
Bolton, Charles E. |
1866 |
Autobiography |
| 1865 |
Roe, Charles |
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Diary (tss) |
| 1865 |
Twichell, Erastus W. |
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Journal of Expenses |
| 1867 |
Burgess, John |
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Autobiographical Reminiscences (tss); "How I Found Amherst and What I Found" (tss, printed in Amherst Graduates Quarterly, No. 65, Vol. XVII, Nov. 1927) |
| 1867 |
Cobb, William Henry |
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Reminiscences of Amherst College |
| 1867 |
Tilden, Arthur |
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Autograph Book; Account Book |
| 1868 |
Sophomore Class Uprising |
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Account of the rituals of undergraduate life and conflict between the students and faculty |
| 1867 |
Miner, Worthington |
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Diary |
| 1869 |
Hewett, Waterman T. |
1865-1866 |
Diaries (2 vols.) |
| 1870 |
Class of 1870 |
1866-1880 |
Cash Book for class of 1870 (entries made for 1866, '67, '69, '70, '73, '75, '80) |
| 1870 |
Class of 1870 |
1868 |
History of the Class of 1870 for the Sophomore Year (published by Henry A. Davenport) |
| 1871 |
Class of 1871 |
1867 |
Records of the Class of 1871 |
| 1871 |
Morong, Arthur B. |
1870 |
Diary |
| 1873 |
King, Henry Amasa |
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Notebook of expenses and addresses |
| 1876 |
Class of 1876 |
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Student and Olio Controversies in which members of Olio and Student were censured for satirizing the faculty |
| 1872 |
Cary, Otis |
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Notes on Amherst College in 1868-1872 |
| 1878 |
Class of 1878 |
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Description of class |
| 1879 |
Jameson, John F. |
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Recollections of Amherst College |
| 1879 |
Marvine, Walter |
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Correspondence |
| 1880 |
Alden, Edmund |
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Essay: "Amherst Reminiscences" |
| 1880 |
Chapin, Samuel |
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Records of his college Expenses and Financial Aid |
| 1880 |
McGregory, J.F. |
1876-1880 |
Account book of college expenses (Sept. 1876 - July 1880); Speech Notes before class meeting filled with puns on class members' names |
| 1880 |
Stephenson, Robert S. 1858-1929 |
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Diaries |
| 1881 |
Kemp, James F. |
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Diaries; Essays and stories |
| 1881 |
Murphy, Star Jocelyn |
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Receipts from college |
| 1881 |
Russell, Henry B. |
1879 |
Journal |
| 1881 |
Spahr, Charles Barzalli |
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Notebook, expenses |
| 1882 |
Burt, Enoch H. |
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Account Book |
| 1882 |
Washburn, George H. |
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Correspondence |
| 1883 |
Class of 1883 |
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Unidentified student diary |
| 1883 |
Foster, George B. |
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Correspondence; Notebook of accounts, lists, etc. |
| 1883 |
Pratt, Charles |
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Journal |
| 1883 |
Roe, Charles |
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Diary (tss) |
| 1884 |
Class of 1884 |
1890 |
Amherst Memories. A Collection of Undergraduate Verse |
| 1887 |
Sharp, Frank C. Diary |
ca. 1884 |
Diary |
| 1889 |
Bigelow, William |
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Musings of an Emeritus; Amherst High School Essay: "The Character of Bassinio" |
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