A fragment of a poem by Edward Hitchcock discussing death, the grief of a widow, and the comfort to be found in religion. The sheet also has calculations and a list of towns written on it in pencil, as well as a list of several items including "shoe…
A plate printed from illustrations by Orra White Hitchcock depicting five different fossils of vegetation fround in Wrentham, Massachusetts. This is plate 27 in Edward Hitchcock's "Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts."
A manuscript draft by Edward Hitchcock of the first five lectures included in his work "The Religion of Geology and its Connected Sciences." Hitchcock attempts to demonstrate the relationships between religion and geology while also discussing the…