Edward Hitchcock published nearly fifty books in his lifetime totaling some five million words. But his unpublished writings may well have exceeded his published works. They include sermons, letters, travel diaries, teaching and field notes, essays, and poems. Most are held in the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections. A few are in the collections of the Henry N. Flynt Library at Historic Deerfield and Pockumtuck Valley Memorial Association in Deerfield.
Transcriptions
In the course of his research for All the Light Here Comes from Above, author Robert T. McMaster transcribed many of Edward Hitchcock's unpublished works. Using voice-to-text software, he dictated each manuscript into a word processing document, then reread and proofed it.
Most of those transcriptions are now available for reading, downloading, and research purposes. We only ask that the source be cited including the archive where the original manuscript is held. Some or all of the transcriptions will eventually be available through the Amherst College Archives at acdc.amherst.edu.
Geological Survey Notes of Edward Hitchcock 1830-1835
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(316 letters) DOCX PDF
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For transcriptions of the Hitchcock-Silliman correspondence see Robert L. Herbert, The Complete Correspondence of Edward Hitchcock and Benjamin Silliman, 1817-1863: The American Journal of Science and the Rise of American Geology, available at http://bit.ly/2m6vnxtHitch.
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