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A letter from Amherst College student Abel Packard, to sister Lucy, about Fourth of July activities around Amherst, and other details about life as a student at the college.

Chatty letter describing the setting in the dorm room, the "Millerites" (Adventists) in Amherst, textbooks being used, etc.

Letter from the Rands (signed F.P.R. for Frank Prentice Rand) to Robert Francis sending Francis their best wishes before he travels to Italy.

Letter from Joseph Stoddard Lathrop to Abigail Pomeroy's father in which Lathrop asks to continue courting Abigail.

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…

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 Robert Francis to William Merrill, Director of The Jones Library, regarding plans for Founders Day.

Letter from George C. Baldwin to David Grayson addressed 'David" dated April 27, 1916

Letter from Everett R. Perry, librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library to David Grayson dated December 17, 1915

Letter from a fan asking if David Grayson was also Ray Stannard Baker, dated October 4, 1915

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 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…

A fan letter dated April 12, 1916 to Ray Stannard Baker/ David Grayson sent by Sarah Wilson of Churchville, Pennsylvania

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.

View of the Lewis J. Spear Blacksmith shop on North Pleasant Street with employees and horses.