Diaries
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Amherst College Student Work and Correspondence
Correspondence and literary manuscripts - mostly orations, disputations and essays - written by Amherst College alumni. The collection includes materials of such individuals as Henry Ward Beecher, John Quincy Adams, William Austin Dickinson, and Edward Hitchcock.
Benjamin Kendall Emerson (AC 1865) Papers
The papers consist of personal and family correspondence; geological notebooks kept by Emerson during his geological survey of Massachusetts and other areas of New England; pamphlets and scientific papers relating to Emerson's Helix Chemica and his Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island; essays and compositions written by Emerson when he was a student; and notes and letters concerning family genealogy.
Cary, Josiah Addison (AC 1832) - personal diary preceded by short section on the creation of the earth and man, 1827-1837
Correspondence and literary manuscripts - mostly orations, disputations and essays - written by Amherst College alumni. The collection includes materials of such individuals as Henry Ward Beecher, John Quincy Adams, William Austin Dickinson, and Edward Hitchcock.
Clarence Willis Eastman Papers
Diaries, 1887, 1889-1890

Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers
Edward Smith Parsons (AC 1883) Papers
Clergyman and English professor. Correspondence and news clippings, mainly regarding Parsons' dismissal from Colorado College; diaries; scholarly notes and papers on John Milton; and miscellaneous booklets.
Fisher, Milton Metcalf (Non-grad AC 1836) - diary, 1832-1833
Correspondence and literary manuscripts - mostly orations, disputations and essays - written by Amherst College alumni. The collection includes materials of such individuals as Henry Ward Beecher, John Quincy Adams, William Austin Dickinson, and Edward Hitchcock.
Frederic Marsena Butts (AC 1909) Papers
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.
Harrison Griswold Dwight (AC 1898) Papers
Correspondence, printed articles, manuscripts, notebooks, diaries, family photographs, and notes covering the life of Harrison Griswold Dwight, author and Amherst graduate. The bulk of the collection is made up of letters to Dwight from friends and publishers covering a period from 1897 to 1959. These include a number of letters from well-known persons ranging from Willa Cather to Eleanor Roosevelt.
John Merson (AC 1966) Papers
Vietnam War soldier, business administrator. Contains mainly letters written home to family members during Marine Corps basic training and combat duty in Vietnam, 1965-1968.
Marshall Bloom (AC 1966) Papers
Correspondence, diaries, unpublished writings, news clippings, publications, financial records, photographs and other materials chiefly documenting Bloom's childhood, education, personal life and work as the founder of Liberation News Service and its larger role in the radical counterculture of the 1960s.
Pratt Museum of Natural History Records
Reports, correspondence, clippings, photographs, field notebooks and catalogues related to the natural history collections formerly held in the Pratt Museum, as well as expeditionary field work undertaken to develop those collections. Also includes some records of the Amherst College department of Geology.
Series 5: Dora J. Mattoon [Ward] Diaries, 1911-1975
Thirteen "Line-a-Day" diaries documenting Ward's domestic life and missionary work.
Sprague Family Papers
Sub-series B: Printed Copies - Mountaineering and Travel Diaries
Sub-series C: Lady Sarah Archer Amherst Diaries, 1823 - 1828
Includes one portfolio of miscellaneous documents and clippings collected by Lady Amherst during their time in India (1823-1828), collected in Sub-series A. Sub-series C contains her personal diary of their years in India which fills seven uniformly-bound volumes of approximately 200 pages each. This sub-series also includes seven folders of loose items removed from the bound volumes, each corresponding to a diary volume.
William Cole Esty (AC 1889) Papers
The papers contain account books, diaries, essays, exams, and notebooks documenting Esty's academic career at Amherst and M.I.T. Most of the material dates from 1887-1893 and relates to courses offered at these institutions and are useful in the study of curriculum development. There are also several notebooks and scrapbooks in the letters from Esty's childhood and adolescence.