All Items 4 Collection 2 Archives & Special Collections 4 Emily Dickinson Collection 1 Contributor 7 Amherst College 1 Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 1 Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 1 Great Britain. Army 1 Great Britain. Army. Royal American Regiment, 60th 1 Tuckerman, Sarah Eliza Sigourney 1 Yonge, George, Sir, 1731-1812 1 show more 2 show fewer Topic 6 Correspondence 2 History 1 Leaves and furloughs 1 Poets, American 1 Records and correspondence 1 Students 1 show more 1 show fewer Part Of 4 Amherst College Early History Manuscripts and Pamphlets Collection 1 Emily Dickinson Collection 1 Jeffery Amherst Collection 1 Nelson Family Juvenilia Collection of Pamela Russell and Murray McClellan 1 Genre 5 Correspondence 3 Children's literature 1 Envelopes 1 Notes 1 Petitions 1 mods.shelfLocator 1 Box 1 Folder 53 4 Senior class petition to add the remainder of the term to senior vacation, 1837 July Amherst College A student petition to the faculty asking that, on account of the feeble health of the president who is also their instructor, the faculty add the remainder of the term to senior vacation, except what may be necessary for the senior examination. The petition is noted as signed by all the members of the senior class in town, and includes the signatures of: Lewis Franklin Clark, Joseph Peckham, Robert Stevens Hitchcock, Daniel Jefferson Poor, William Murdock, Calvin Chapin Bayley, Walter March, Henry Warren Williams, James Green, Uriah Balkam, Andrew Clark Lippitt, Lucian Barbour, Sidney Brooks, Benjamin Franklin Brooks, Joel Edson Rockwell, Daniel Seeds, Stedman Wright Hanks, Rufus Taylor, Nathan Lyndes Lord, Benjamin Mann, Edmund Freeman Waldo, Daniel Rice, Charles Cragin, John Langdon Ashby, James Averill, Austin Cary, Frederick Vinton, Joel Kenney, Sanford Leach, George Bliss Morris, Daniel Warren Poor, Frederick Dickinson, Alender Osmyn Clapp, Samuel Austin Taylor, George Berkley Rowell, Henry Hanmer, Samuel Herman Shipley, John Hagedorn Wells, Morris Holman, William Barrett Reed, Hemingway Jacob Gaylord, Cyrus Egbert Rosenkrans, and Stephen Watkins Clark. After the signatures there is a note, likely written by Heman Humphrey, stating that "the class was informed that the President hoped to hear them as usual and they went on without any interruption to the end of their term." Senior class petition to add the remainder of the term to senior vacation, 1837 July Wonders of the forest An illustrated account of three brothers' (presumably the Nelson brothers) explorations in the woods written on a Globe Bible Publishing Co. envelope. Several excursions are briefly described in this account. The brothers set traps and chase squirrels, find flowers and play horse on a tree resembling the animal. The boys ask their mother to identify the flowers (Indian Pipe and Lady Slipper). Wonders of the forest Jeffery Amherst letter to Sir George Yonge, 1792 January 12 Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 Letter from Jeffery Amherst to Sir George Yonge, Secretary at War, dated January 12, 1792. Amherst requests that the leave of absence granted to Insign Pritchard of the 60th Regiment be extended by six months. Jeffery Amherst letter to Sir George Yonge, 1792 January 12 Emily Dickinson letter to Mrs. Edward (Sarah) Tuckerman Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 Emily Dickinson letter to Mrs. Edward (Sarah) Tuckerman
