All Items 1 Collection 1 Archives & Special Collections 1 Contributor 4 Amherst College 1 Collegiate Institution (Amherst, Mass.) 1 Olds, Gamaliel S. (Gamaliel Smith), 1777-1848 1 Shepard, Thomas, 1792-1879 1 Topic 3 Admission 1 Correspondence 1 History 1 Part Of 1 Amherst College Early History Manuscripts and Pamphlets Collection 1 Genre 2 Correspondence 1 Letters of introduction 1 Subject 4 Amherst College – History 1 Collegiate Institution (Amherst, Mass.) – Admission 1 Olds, Gamaliel S. (Gamaliel Smith), 1777-1848 – Correspondence 1 Shepard, Thomas, 1792-1879 – Correspondence 1 Thomas Shepard letter to the faculty of the Collegiate Institution, 1823 August 20 Shepard, Thomas, 1792-1879 Thomas Shepard letter to the faculty of the Amherst Collegiate Institution in which Shepard introduces Edmund P. Sherwin (Edmund Phelps Sherwin). Shepard writes that Sherwin has been a member of "our Academy," presumably Sanderson Academy in Ashfield, and of the Congregational Church in Buckland, Massachusetts. Shepard recommends Sherwin as a young man of irreproachable character. Shepard goes on to say that should Sherwin's literary requirements be approved, he will make a respectable member of their Institution. Shepard addresses the letter specifically to Gamaliel S. Olds, a professor, and notes Sherwin as the bearer of the letter. Thomas Shepard letter to the faculty of the Collegiate Institution, 1823 August 20
