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 watercolor drawing of viola tricolor by Orra White Hitchcock with a faded caption at the bottom of the sheet. The drawing features four flowers (three in full bloom) along a stem with many leaves. The bottom left corner of the paper is torn. The…
A poem by Edward Hitchcock on the refuge of God after loss, written in part from the perspective of a widow and her orphans wailing over the loss of the husband and father.
A 401-line poem in verse by Edward Hitchcock on the subject of the study and humility of science, which Hitchcock presented to the Alexandrian Society at Amherst College in 1843. The poem also deals with the concept of the relationship between…
A poem by Edward Hitchcock on the subject of the golden calf idol worshipped in the Hebrew Bible. Hitchcock uses the symbol of the golden calf to discuss the general idea of idolatry.