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Bela Bates Edwards letter to Edward Hitchcock, 1851 September 22
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1851-09-22
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1 item (4 pages) ; 26 x 21 cm
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Bela B. Edwards, Trustee of Amherst College, letter to College President Edward Hitchcock in which Edwards writes regarding his objections to the proposal that the new library building be erected immediately south of South College. He states that Mr. Williston may have informed Hitchcock of a letter Edwards had sent Williston with his objections. Edwards lists five objections he has to the proposed site for the library including aesthetic taste, safety, accessibility (especially for women), and the sake of future generations. In his fifth objection he writes again regarding aesthetics and concludes that the matter of taste is where the College is weakest and needs to be strengthened.
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