A road cuts across the foreground leading towards a stone gate with an arched entrance covered in vines. A large manor house sits behind and downhill with rolling hills filling up the background. Lorna Doone country is on the borders of Devon and…
A letter to Robert Francis from Lloyd J. Reynolds,Professor of Art at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, asking permission to use Francis' poem, "Watching Gymnasts," as part of the sixth National Italic Handwriting Competition.
Letter to Mary Boltwood from her husband on the day before he says he is to set sail with a large contingent of soldiers, from Lake George to Ticonderoga.
Fort Ticonderoga controlled the route between the Hudson River Valley and Canada in the wars…
Dr. Erastus Sargeant writes to Major General William Shepard describing being captured by Shays' Regulators as they attack and loot the town of Stockbridge. They are defeated during a final bloody encounter with government militia at Sheffield, MA on…
Letter written from Robert Francis to Nonny Burack while Francis was in Firenze, Italy. Burack managed Francis' affairs in Amherst while he was abroad. The letter sends holiday greetings, discusses receipt of mail, and remarks on Francis' Christmas…
Letter from Nathaniel Dudley Goodell to his brother Noble Thomas Goodell in Amherst. Dudley Goodell traveled to California in 1849 to dig for gold. This letter describes the part of the journey that took him across the Isthmus of Panama, and up the…