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Front of Jones Library with planting work in progress. Slide caption reads, "4/77 Jones Library old planting removed"

Members of the Garden Club working outside the Jones Library. Slide caption reads "10/7/77 Garden club Bulb planting at Jones Library"

Letter from William Boltwood to the Amherst Committee of Correspondence asking to be restored to public favor and endorsing measures taken by the Continental Congress.

Envelope and letter written from Anne Bullard of Amherst, Massachusetts to Daniel Norton of Suffield, Connecticut rejecting his proposal. Letter is dated March 7th 1859 and envelope is postmarked March 8th 1859.

Handwritten manuscript of the poem, October, written by Ruth Payne Burgess

Handwritten short story by Ruth Payne Burgess

Pencil study of woman with mandolin sketched by Ruth Payne Burgess

Watercolor landscape of Plymouth VT painted by Ruth Payne Burgess

1898 Crayon sketch of woman seated in chair

Watercolor signed by Ruth Payne Burgess depicting two stacked books

Leather sketchbook with initials RPB embossed on front cover. Inside it signed by Ruth Payne Burgess, Newport, Rhode Island. Page one contain one pencil sketch

Watercolor of Red Farmhouse, VT signed by Ruth Payne Burgess, 1930

Remembrance music - words and music by Ruth Payne Burgess, published 1926

Panoramic lithograph of Amherst. Perspective map not drawn to scale.

This institution offered boys a classical education and was a well-known school throughout the Connecticut Valley and beyond in the 1830s. The school closed around 1836 and remained empty for awhile. The wings were removed to other areas of town. One…