1 15 9 https://www.digitalamherst.org/files/original/3f1d35af7460b2463313d26cbbfb5c3b.pdf 9ce81eab309671c2c73101868d9fa6f2 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Catalog Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Amherst Academy catalog for 1840 Subject The topic of the resource Amherst Academy (Amherst, Mass.) Amherst (Mass.) Description An account of the resource Catalog that includes lists of trustees, teachers, and students. Also includes lists of textbooks and general information about the school. 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Title A name given to the resource Amherst Tax Records Collection Description An account of the resource The Amherst Tax Records Collection is made up of a selection of digitized versions of the property tax records for Amherst, Mass. residents (and Hadley 3rd Precinct before the creation of the town of Amherst). Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Account book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Amherst tax records, 1843 Subject The topic of the resource Property tax -- Massachusetts -- Amherst Amherst (Mass.) 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Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Correspondence Text Any textual data included in the document. Amherst College, July 4th 1843 Dear Lucy, I suppose that it is as still and quiet as ever where you are today & now (ten minutes to twelve) a.m. you are making your preparations for dinner, without out cannons or crackers, orators or noisy boys to tell you that your “father fought for liberty.” Our usual exercises are suspended today except morning & evening prayers. If you received the paper I sent to you or rather which Stockbridge sent to you, you understand the exercises we have had in the chapel this forenoon. I will only say that we have a very interesting celebration indeed so far, i.e. the eulogy was a brilliant & deeply interesting performance. It is here (and I suppose at N.B.) a cool & pleasant day & we had a very good congregation. P.M. 15 ms. to six. – I have just got home from another celebration. I’ve been down to East street to hear an oration from N. Linnel Esq. who was a student in college last year a member of the present senior class & left to study law. A procession was formed & marched about the streets a little escorted by the Belchertown brass band. The procession was composed of marshals & committee, one revolutionary soldier (Amherst sent 60 soldiers out of her 800 population to the revolutionary army, eight of whom still survive) two rev. clergy & their wives, orator of the day, reader of the Declaration of independence, representatives of the old thirteen states (consisting of thirteen young ladies, bare headed, dressed in white, with crowns & girdles of flowers) & citizens generally making up the rear. The band was large & the music good; the marshals, with their badges & blue ribbands, rode upon prancing steeds, the ladies marched with a military step, the little children (whom I forgot to mention as forming a part of the procession) were in fine spirits, the national flag fluttered in the procession & a plain white standard declared the motto “Union founded on Love of Liberty,” while on the ????? far above the whole the nation’s banner proudly waved her stars & [Page 2] stripes. So in the whole they made quite a display. Wed. morn. I given you an account of the performances, in part, of yesterday. But the most interesting part came off last evening. A Pickwick meeting & initiation. You remember I told you, I don’t know as you heard me, but father did of one who was exceedingly disappointed at not getting into it, & afterwards joined another society. Well he has since improved, wrote a first rate colloquy & disposition for exhibition & was elected to the Pickwick & had a grand initiation though not more so than I have seen before. There were about twenty there. I was quite amused last night to hear that some of the young ladies in the village (& their sympathy is wholly on the side of the Alpha Delta Phi) have had consultations together, as to the members of our class who will probably be remembered next year & they singled out [the very ones?] – But I suppose you will want to know something about exhibition & c. You recd a schedule I suppose. I hadn’t been very well for two or three days before exhibition & that morning I woke up at the ringing of prayer bell quite sick at my stomach & my bowels out of order. I didn’t go in to prayers or recitation but went down to breakfast & drank a bowl of sage tea; came back to my room, laid a-bed & slept a considerable part of the forenoon. Went down to dinner & drank another bowl of sage tea & thought I must try to spunk up a little before 3 o’clock, but twas really hard work to dress me. I didn’t hurry for I was over an hour about it. I bathed myself all over & felt tolerably bright. They say that I looked very pale when I first came upon the stage but that any paleness gradually wore off as I advanced in my piece. I got through without any blunder & I never spoke as well before. I was not frightened at all. I think & felt quite at home. We had a very good audience, good music (singing by a quartette glee club) & in fine the exhibition passed off very well indeed. I only wish you could have been here. I keep wishing so very often. I see students very often with a sister or a mother (much more often the former) or some friend from home & it always make me wish I had such a one here for a little while. I thought [Page 3] of it a great many times yesterday. And now I am reminded again that yesterday was a great day for the Pickwicks : both of the orators were Pickwicks. There was a lawyer here yesterday from Michigan who belonged to that society & wore the badge. I think, as you see, a great deal about this society, and I do believe that there is no association that has better articles or that tends to have a better influence upon its own members at least than this, except the church. I’m afraid I love it too much. We had our election of officers in the Athenian Society, the evening of the day I sent you my last letter. I told father last vacation that Stockbridge would undoubtedly be chosen unanimously first secretary. I presume that about or quite every one thought so then. Two or three days before elections one of my classmates asked me who would be chosen secretary. I told him, “Stockbridge of course.” And then he told me that I was a candidate against him & one of the Juniors had been talking with him who told him that about every man in his class would vote for me. I heard no more about it until the afternoon before the evening of election when Stockbridge came & told me that there was a great excitement about college on my account. And when I inquired with great concern, to know what I had been doing or what the matter was, he told me that there was a great electioneering excitement & that I should probably be run in for secretary. I had before supposed that it was all blown over but before suppertime others knew it to be decided, although I did not. But although I was elected, I and my best friends voted for Stockbridge. I mean by my best friends Pickwicks who were not influenced by envy or anything ??? Indeed those who voted for me acknowledge readily enough that Stockbridge deser[ved?] it plainly enough, but they “didn’t like him,” he had put himself forward too much, “thought too largely of himself” & c. I suppose if I should write to other folks such things as I write home I should be accused of vanity but when I write home I want to tell all the good things about myself that I can. But enough of this. I feel in a hurry to get home again & the term has got so near through that it will soon be done & I shall be at home if God suffers me. About going to Fallriver, if I went I wasn’t intending to go until after I got home. Fallriver is seventeen miles from Taunton. I don’t [Page 4] know how far it is there; or exactly how much it would cost from there to Fallriver. I supposed I might walk perhaps part way, but I can tell better about going after I get home perhaps. I wish next time you write you would tell me how far it is to Taunton. I went to Sunderland a week ago last Saturday & staid till Monday morn. Had a very pleasant time indeed. Mrs. Carey is a very pretty woman I think; didn’t hear Mr. Carey preach. I thing I learned a great many things about ministers & their life & way of doing things; there were three ministers there besides Mr. Carey, not all the time however. I went up to a famous cave there, an opening underground, running beneath rocks for ten or twelve rods. I got a guide to go through with me who carried a candle. But I can’t tell you anything more at present. Your letter came safely to hand as I hope another may soon. And now with lots of love to you all I subscribe your affectionate brother’s name. Abel Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Amherst College student to his sister Subject The topic of the resource Fourth of July celebrations; Brothers and sisters Amherst (Mass.) Description An account of the resource 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. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Packard, Abel Kingman, 1823-1891 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Jones Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1843-07-04 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This digital file may be used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. Prior written permission is required for any other use of the digital files from the Jones Library. 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Amherst College Tuesday eve Feb 1843 Dear sister Lucy, Here I am (8 o’clock) with my table before the fire, seated in an armchair, an “old arm chair” that has been in college long enough to tell a great many college stories if it had the gift of speech. And suppose I should just describe to you the table I am writing upon – well then it is a common pine table oblong in shape three feet one way & two feet (wanting three inches) the other. on the side of the table from the fire is the first vol. of Scott’s Commentary – at one end of that is a copy of the Village Hymns & at the other end another small book (Beauties of Jude Story). Before the Bible is a tumbler containing shot, buttons, pencils, pens, scissors, knife, letter folder sealing wax, & court--? plaster; also (on each side of the tumbler) a sand box & a sort of wooden cup containing seals, wafers, wax & four cents; also (before the tumbler) my inkstand & pen wiper. before the whole my lamps & pen wiper – at one end (east) of the table I am sitting with my paper upon the portfolio made by your hands. side of the portfolio is the little book with with the pasteboard cover, which (by the way) is now pretty much filled. So now, I think you must have a pretty deffinite idea of my table. I am alone, & tis very still, only the fire is singing a curious song – the fire – not a great fire in a great big place like the one you are sitting before, but a little fire (two sticks & a brand) in a little fire frame two feet & two inches high – fire enough to keep warm such a night as this; & it page 2 is really quite a comfortable looking place. I don’t believe there is another room in college that would look so pleasant at least to me, as this. Just now B Sanford who sent his love to you is here though I don’t stop writing & would like quite as well to see you & by the way if you should soon I could treat you for I just bought 2 cts worth of molasses candy of a great negro. but you are getting tired with this. Let me tell you that I belong to a singing school. We got a first rate teacher, whom we pay a dollar a peice, a first rate class & c. We meet twice a week (an hour each time) for the rest of this term & a part of next. I’m going to see if I can’t make out that mother was mistaken when she said I couldn’t make a singer. I sing sometimes down to Mrs. Cooley’s & I think I improve a little, but very slowly. And yet I think I can sing a great deal better than I could a year ago; or rather perhaps I don’t sing so bad now as I did then. Were any of the Millerites in your neighborhood expecting the world would beging to burn the 15th of this month. About not quite (perhaps) all of those about Amherst did. there are a very few if any Millerites in Amherst, but in a number of the neighboring there are a great many (or at least have been until the 15th I don’t know how it is now); In some places it has absorbed all thought & business. In some places expecting to be caught up into the air on the 15, they had made their white robes! actually & litteraly made their white robes ready for ascention & the day before the great day many of them went from their own towns to a town not far from here that they page 3 might be together. In Shrewsbury (one of our scholars, who has been teaching there, says) they watched the grave yards. One man from Hadley who had a number of children in Amherst went through here to collect them. what they say or think now I don’t know. The learned blacksmith from Worcester, whom you have often heard of as having acquired something like fifty different languages & that too cheifly while engaged at his trade, lectured here last week & was very interesting (his knowledge of history is really surprising – He is a smar[t loo]king man & his hands don’t look as if they’ve handled the iron much lately, indeed he has not. he has been engaged lately in literary labors lately, translating from the German & other languages for the papers, delivering lectures before lyceums & c. I should think from your letter you must have fine times at home reading & c. Indeed I really think you are about the happiest folks in the world. I have written two compositions this term. One of them called the “Signs of the times” & the other was on “Personal Influence” which last Stockbridge says is about as good as he has heard from me although he allows that isn’t saying much- I suppose you know that tomorrow, when you will get this letter, is fast day. We shall have none but religious exercises & I hope it will be an interesting day. Indeed it ought to be when we know so many are praying for us. We shall have a prayer meeting in the forenoon which no one will be obliged to attend, in the afternoon an exercise (preaching) which all will be required to attend as on the Sabbath. page 4 I expect you have made a mistake in the length of this term. it is fifteen weeks I think as you will see by looking on the catalogue so that the term is about eight weeks longer. I want to know whether or not my History of England is at home. and also to know where my French Dictionary is is. Aunt Lucy did have it. We study French here next term. I suppose you have first rate sleighing as it is here. and to day or this morning is a most beautiful one. I must send love enought to last three weeks I hope Mothers eyes have become good enough to read this. So good bye sweet sister & good by all. Brother Abel Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Amherst College student to his sister Subject The topic of the resource Brothers and sisters Amherst College -- Students Amherst (Mass.) Description An account of the resource Chatty letter describing the setting in the dorm room, the "Millerites" (Adventists) in Amherst, textbooks being used, etc. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Packard, Abel Kingman, 1823-1891 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Jones Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1843-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This digital file may be used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. Prior written permission is required for any other use of the digital files from the Jones Library. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Rudman 2-23 Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence 1840s Amherst College Education https://www.digitalamherst.org/files/original/3c20d3ab29e0dc8230eb5353c602d4d8.pdf 3e90ce93647abca775d76ad19f81bc79 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Correspondence Text Any textual data included in the document. Panama April 21th 1849 Br Ira C. Goodell According to my engagement to you I take the first opportunity to fulfill it. We left N York the 26 of March at ?----- four o clock P.M. Anchored som three miles West of Chagres on the 12 of April at ?----- four O’clock P.M. Thursday making the passage in just 17 days from N York The first night after we left N.Y. the wind blew very hard It rained & snowed & hailed the ship went first onto one side then onto the other it was almost imposible to lay in one berths Of all the spueing that I ever see or heard of I see that night and the next day. But as good luck would have it I was not much sick only some 15 or 20 minutes though I have not much appetite to eat for a week or so. We steared directly towards Turk Island we came in sight of it in twelve days we left it at the left of us we sailed between the Islands of Cuba & St Domingo also come in sight of Jamaica left it at the right of us Right glad we were when we arrived at Chagres this place has been most awfully belied I never was so happily disapointed in my life It is a village of some 200 huts and about 800 inhabitants all dress clean & neat except some of the children the men however when they are roweing their boats up & down the river Chagres take off their shirts or frocks (which are always on the outside of their pants) and then take their page 2 pants & tie the legs around their bodys & let the body of the pants hang down in front of their middle there is now and then one that strip entirely naked While I was stoping at Chagres I went to see some 50 women washing clothes in a little stream near the village they stood in the stream & used the stone to wash on each woman had a large flat stone which she used they use no hot water their washing looks very clean & nice there is a large port here built some 3 hundred years ago all going to decay it extends out into the sea some 50 roods its about 150 ft high there is an number large recesses or dark caverns in underground what they were build for I could not tell but probably they they were built for prisons the large brass cannons lay scattered around on the ground or rather on top of the port which is noting more nor less than the ground for it is all grown over to grass & wead the walls on three sids next to the sea are about 100 ft high 8 ft thick than between this & the main prt their is a dish or channel about 10 ft wide 25 ft deep than comes the main port whoes walls are some 80 ft higher than the outside walls 54 of our passengers that come in the Brig Leveret hire our passage to-gether up as far as Gorgona 7.17 each person it took us about 2½ days to go from Chagres to Gorgona we were out three nights of which I slept in the boat on the soft sid of a board covered myself with a blanket head and all slept very well ?---- the first 1½ day we had trouble with the natives that rowed us up the river some time it would be with one boat some time it would be with another it was with mine only once we got page 3 about half way to Gorgona our boatman said he would not go any further without more pay while we were on the bank of the river eating diner we see our money chest going off into an other boat we went down with our pistols in hand and ordered it brought back which was done very quick. when we got ready to go they said they would not go any further two of our men on an other boat stood on the bank with their guns cocked the natives see them so they get in & pushed us off which was the last trouble we had with them till we got to Gorgona the man we contracte with claimed pay for one man more than their was of us so we went before the Alca---? held a cork and got our case There is some four hundred Americans in Gorgona now Gorgona is a place about ¾ as large as Chagres it is not as plesant in any respect nor can you live here so cheap as you can at Chagres Chagres River is about as large as Chicopee river where it emties into the connecticut river and is the most crooked of any river that I ever see it runs at every point of compass No one knows the distance from Chagres to Gorgona by the river route but it is probably about 50 or 60 miles if you could get through by land it would not be more than 20 or 25 miles the last part of the journey we walked 5 miles it was 12 miles by river Three of our company walked from Gorgana to Panama in one day (26 miles) there is a very good path only it is up hill and down all of the way It will be uterly imposible to pass from Gorgana to page 4 Panam one month after the wet season commences which has already begun So far as Panama is concerned you have read descriptions of in papers times enough written & my giving you one But I will say there is about 20 catholic churches here they are opened every morning you can see the little black brats kneeling down all over the churches and some ½ dozen priests in attendance the streets are narrow the buildings are all going to decay there is not a window glass in the whole city that I have seen the windows are wooden shutters you can hire rooms here for a dollar a day large enough to accom?--- 12 or 15 men there is about 3000 Americans here and at Gorgona there has not been a single vessel or steamer left here for San Francisco since the Origon left which was about the first of March tickets from here to San Francisco in sailing vessels sell from 150 to 350 dollars but this specilation is soon over I think there is 14 vessels here now which will sail in the corse of 3 or 4 weeks they will take off about half of them about 6 or 8 hundred have steamer tickets the remainder have either gambled & lost their money or are going back to the states thus they will get of some home I have bought 2 tickets for our company I shall probably go for one the sail the last of next week or the very first of week after next (about the 27 of ?--- we though it would be best for a cupple of our company to go along up if we had to pay a little more I think that tickets will be bought in the course of two or 3 weeks for a 100 dollars I paid one hundred & ninety for mine Oil is worth 50 dollars a barrel here Butter one dollar a pound eggs 20 ct a dozen flower 4 dollars a barrel you can live here after all as cheep as you can in NY saleratus N D Goodell page 5 I forgot tell you that your corn & cucumber & c we can get if we like corn is growing in all stages from the first planting up to the full grown corn in the ear that is ripe almost everything grows here spontainously that hart can wish when I say here I mean within a few miles of here let a ?--- yankeys come here and they could make money just as fast as they were a mind to with a very little labour There is a great deal of mahogeny or bay wood here in the woods I see one tree I should think would measure 25 feet through it all of the canews are made out of mahogeny trees some of them are 6 or 8 ft across and 25 or 30 ft long capable of takeing 25 men with their baggage up the river Chagre page 6 the city of Panama is built after the old gothic stile most all of the building have a piazza the roof project over there is no colums to any of the buildings out side a great many of the building are tumbleing down the walls of the city are also falling down in about every thing going to decay there is some 200 mules & horses dead between here & Gorgana stench enough to knock a fellow over therometer stands here at from 80 to 90 degrees In regard to my health it hasent been better for the last 4 year than it has since I have been on the Isthmus Pleas to excuse all mistakes & poor writing for I have in hast as I have 4 others letter to write to day and to morrow Give my love to you wife and children from your Br. N D Goodell Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Nathaniel Dudley Goodell to his brother in Amherst Subject The topic of the resource Frontier and pioneer life Amherst (Mass.) Description An account of the resource 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 Chagres River by boat, then 26 miles by foot to Panama (now called Panama City). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Goodell, Nathaniel Dudley Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Jones Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1849-04-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This digital file may be used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. Prior written permission is required for any other use of the digital files from the Jones Library. Relation A related resource Is part of the Goodell/Goodale Family Papers, Jones Library Special Collections Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Folder: Goodell, Ira Chafee--Correspondence Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence 1840s California Gold Rush https://www.digitalamherst.org/files/original/phoenix_rox_1840_2901b5845e.jpg 58977fb17cc40881f6bdc1607c3756e8 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 588 IPTC String Array ( ) Width 800 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Lithograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 4 x 6 in. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Phoenix Row and Main Street in Amherst, 1840 Description An account of the resource Reproduction of a lithograph of the original Phoenix Row building looking east down Main Street. Building signs include Phoenix Hall Straw Works and D. Mack Jr. and Son. Horse and carts cluster near the buildings, while people stroll the street. On the right side of the image the original Palmer Block building is visible (now the site of Town Hall). Note: signed H.W.P. del. and J.C. Sharps Press, Boston. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H. W. P. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Published by J. C. Sharps Press, Boston. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Jones Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1840 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This digital file may be used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. Prior written permission is required for any other use of the digital files from the Jones Library. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Prints Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Folder: Emily Dickinson - Photos c1830s-1910 Subject The topic of the resource Amherst (Mass.) 1840s Business blocks Business Industry and Transportation Central business districts