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India -- Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Autobiography of Gilbert Statham: “Memory Brings the Light of Other Days Around Me”, circa 1975

 File — Box 2, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents Unbound typescript autobiography deals with Statham's childhood in London, schooldays, eight years in the Indian police during WWI and afterwards (the greater part of the memoir), and his journey home across the Pacific, then through Canada and on to England, as well as his self-education to get a degree, having resigned from the Indian police. It finishes with the start of his 45-year career as a schoolmaster. Although the narrative is continuous, the pages are numbered 1-53 and then...
Dates: circa 1975
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Dicken-Statham Family Papers / Series 5: Gilbert Popham Statham

Frederic Marsena Butts (AC 1909) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00242
Abstract

Mostly writings and photographs documenting Butts' trip to the Mediterranean, Asia and North Africa, 1909-1910. Also included are a speech before an Amherst College alumni group and correspondence about a scholarship he established there.

Dates: 1909-1949; Majority of material found within 1909-1910
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Howard R. Wolf (AC 1958) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00188
Abstract

Literary manuscripts, correspondence, news clippings, ephemera and other materials documenting the professional and personal life of writer, critic and educator Howard R. Wolf. Correspondents include writers John Coetzee, Carl Dennis, Irving Feldman, Robert Hass, Leonard Michaels, and Roger Porter (AC 1958).

Dates: 1971-2009
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Julius Hawley Seelye (AC 1849) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00031
Abstract

The Julius Hawley Seelye Collection contains correspondence, sermons, notes, journals, speeches and articles. The bulk of the collection is family and other correspondence, although it also includes many sermons and writings by Seelye.

Dates: 1824-1898
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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