World War, 1914-1918

The Meiklejohn Papers consist mainly of correspondence between Meiklejohn and other educators during his term as President of Amherst College, as well as records created during his presidency.

An artificial collection consisting mainly of publications, ephemera and correspondence related to Amherst College's involvement in various United States wars, including the Civil War, Mexican War, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, Korean War and the Vietnam War.

The Beeckman Jousseaum Delatour (AC 1911) papers contain letters from Beeckman Delatour to his parents, Albert J. and Susie S. Holcomb Delatour, during his undergraduate years at Amherst College (1907-1911), his medical school years at Johns Hopkins University (1911-1915), and his service in France during World War I (1917-1919). There is a small amount of associated ephemera, but the bulk of the papers document the maturation of a youth of the early twentieth century.

The Bowles-Hoar Family Papers document the personal and professional lives of multiple members of the Bowles and Hoar families circa 1779-1960. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, documents, miscellaneous materials, and publications, all of which provide a detailed portrait of the two families before and after their histories joined with the marriage of Samuel Bowles IV to Elizabeth Hoar in 1884.

Several wartime letters from "S.A. Byles," President (1906-1921) of the Women's National Liberal Association of Great Britain. Includes a letter (December 1917) regarding the death of her husband William Pollard Byles (1839-1917) and an accompanying copy of an address by John A. Hobson read at his funeral.

Three letters from Eyre S. Wilkinson's sister Eveline to Beth: the Feb 9 [1916] letter announces and describes his death in the air over France during World War I. See also additional folders in this series containing letters from Spenser, Victoria, and Eyre Wilkinson.

The collection contains a scrapbook, journal, herbarium, photographs and college notebooks of various members of the Gillett family. Many members of family attended Amherst College: Edward Bates Gillett (AC 1839), Frederick Huntington Gillett (AC 1874), Arthur Lincoln Gillett (AC 1880), and Robert Swift Gillett (AC 1916). The herbarium is believed to have been kept by Lucy Douglass Fowler Gillett.

Papers of Joseph Gerald Cole (AC 1915) relating to his military service in World War I and his later life. Includes diaries, photographs, correspondence, certificates, clippings, and ephemera.

Two boxes of materials including correspondence, maps and illustrations, photographs, and ephemera. The collection largely pertains to Baker's time serving in WWI, although his high school and college years are also documented.

The Meiklejohn Papers consist mainly of correspondence between Meiklejohn and other educators during his term as President of Amherst College, as well as records created during his presidency.

Three letters from Cyril Melville Litteljohn (a friend of Beth's son Sherman) during World War I and during Litteljohn's posts with the American Expeditionary Forces. Folder includes one [undated later] Christmas greeting. See also his letter to Sherman in Series 6.

The Mark Hopkins Ward (AC 1906) Family Papers contain the personal and professional papers of Mark Ward, as well as personal papers of members of his Ward and Bliss family relatives, including items from earlier generations of related Porter and Clapp family members. There is also material related to missionaries associated with the Ward and Bliss families in Turkey.

Two letters written from Banwell Abbey in Somerset, England. Family and war news.

Series 4: Miscellaneous, 1915-1917, consists of printed matter related to Parsons' work during World War I after leaving Colorado College.

Former Amherst College President. Correspondence, speeches, articles, scrapbooks, awards, photographs and other materials documenting his personal and professional life and that of his wife, Margaret P. Jackson King. Correspondents include Newton D. Baker, Ernest M. Hopkins, Felix Frankfurter and Frederick J. E. Woodbridge.

Clara's journal description ("a unique trip") and a few news clippings related to the aborted trip aboard the "Cecilie," impounded during the start of World War I, and the trip she took instead, including aboard the "S. S. Sophia."

World War I ambulance unit, recruited in Amherst, Massachusetts in June 1917 from Amherst College students and local residents. Collection consists of clippings, photographs, a photograph album, maps, books, correspondence, pay and enlistment records, and other materials documenting the activities of the U.S. Army Ambulance Service Section 539, also called S.S.U. 539, known colloquially as the "Black Cats," in France during World War I.

Approximately a dozen letters from Spenser Wilkinson (Professor of Military History at Oxford University) and his wife Victoria. Family news, war news, reminiscences: the letter of December 15, 1923, relates the relationship between the Bowles and Wilkinson families dating back to the Civil War years.

Series 3, Instructional Material, contains printed material used in physical education and hygiene courses, general instructional material for personal excercise and department handbooks. Of particular interest are the detailed course pamphlets, or "Health Lectures," created for the department's hygiene courses. The material in this series does not represent a comprehensive collection of department instructional material.