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https://www.ats.amherst.edu/childhood/files/original/07073cf2205b496e92e298242ab7e8fe.pdf
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Writings about Daily Life
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Sketch of the Life of Mrs. Ida Farr Nelson (1940)
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Memoir written by Ida Farr Nelson in 1940 when she was in her mid-80s . It was written at the request of her granddaughter Doris Nelson Newman and transcribed in 2017 by her great-grandson Brian Nelson Burford. The text includes information about Ida's own childhood in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as her teenage and adult life in Goshen, New Hampshire. She includes some recollections of her sons' childhoods, and more information about their lives as grown men.
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Ida Farr Nelson
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Manuscript journal, photocopy in the possession of the Nelson family, Transcription by Brian Nelson Burford
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1840
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Nelson family
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Journal of the Hillsboro Lyceum Association
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A year before her marriage to Hial Nelson, Ida Farr served as "Editress" for what purports to be the March 13, 1875 issue of the weekly newspaper of the Hillsboro Lyceum Association. Ida herself wrote an essay titled "Home" for the Journal which also contains a generally humorous and flirtatious collection of poems, announcements, and conundrums. The Hillsboro Lyceum and its publications may well have served as a model for the family lyceum that Ida would later convene in the Nelson parlor.
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Ida L. Farr
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Transcription by the Goshen Historical Society
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1875
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https://www.ats.amherst.edu/childhood/files/original/23b2f31df07fd9c400a66f949f6ccf30.mp3
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Interview with Beatrice Jillette, granddaughter of Elmer Nelson-2014 (Part 2)
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Listen to Part 2 of our interview with Beatrice Jillette, granddaughter of Elmer Nelson and current resident of Goshen, NH. In this particular interview, Beatrice discusses the current state of imaginative play in Goshen, which Nelson brother she wished she had met/knew, her early encounter with Arthur Nelson, the resources available to the Nelson brothers during the 19th century, details about the Nelson family farm and creamery, her fondness for other Nelson relatives, and the beneficial nature of the Nelson brothers’ juvenilia collection.
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Interview with Beatrice Jillette, Elmer Nelson's Granddaughter, 2014 (Part 1)
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<p>Check out Part 1 of our interview with Beatrice Jillette, granddaughter of Elmer Nelson and current resident in Goshen, NH. In this interview, she discusses her decision to move to Goshen from NYC, her various jobs held while living in Goshen for 50 years, the history of the Nelson family reunion, her archival work with the Goshen historical society, her feelings about her grandfather, growing up in the 19<sup>th</sup> century, and her reaction to the discovery of the Nelson brothers’ juvenilia.</p>
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https://www.ats.amherst.edu/childhood/files/original/a04dd01f9c62fa4fa2f19c2e42126dba.pdf
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[Elmer's Hunting Diary] November 18-19 1895
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Nelson, Elmer
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Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
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1895
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Elmer's <em>Hunting Diary </em>includes stories about his hunting excursion with Uncle Oren, Arthur, Walter, and his father on Nov. 18th-19th. The account details the boys' successful hunting of hedgehogs, their construction of a campsite, and preperation of meals.
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Nelson Family Juvenilia
Box 1 Folder 12
[diary] - November 18-19, 1895
[written by Elmer]
Monday Nov. 18, 1895
This morning we did not get started from home as early as we intended, but started at a little before nine. Arthur and I went over to Uncle Orens and got some sweet apples and met Walter and father beyond Mrs Adams we then cut across and again come up with them just as they were leaving the main road to go up the mountain from there we went ahead most of the time looking for game but saw nothing till after we had left our horse which was at about half past ten, we hitched our horse at a tree at the head of the road, we then packed our things together and started up the mountain about this time Sparks treed a hedgehog which Arthur shot and soon after [page break] this he treed another which I shot we followed a path up the mountain but after a while we left the path and struck for the top of the mountain, after going about twice or three times as far as we expected we came in sight of the pond from the top of a large ledge, here father left us and after taking our things to the foot of the ledge we ate our dinner after dinner we hunted out a place for our camp and worked on that till about four when Arthur and I went and set our traps when we came back we built a fire and got supper which we ate and now Walter and I are writing up an account of the day. we expect soon to go to bed,
[page break]
TUESDAY Nov 19 1895
We had to get up about twelve oclock last night and go out and cut us some more wood for it had all burned out, near morning we heard it raining and it kept it up more or less till six oclock when it stopped, Arthur and Walter went to look at the traps while I got breakfast ready, when they came back they brought with them a large hedgehog which had been caught in one of the traps. We had breakfast at a little after eight, while we were eating Sparks barked down by the pond and I went down and found he had a red squirrel which I shot for him, just before breakfast Arthur and I went down by the pond hunting and hearing Sparks bark went to where he was and found he had a small hedge-hog, Arthur [page break] shot it and we carried it back to camp, after breakfast we went to [r--ing?] our camp, I cut some fir brush and Arthur got some birch bark, these we put on to the house, at ten oclock we started for Bloods Mountain, before we had left the side of the pond our dog treed another red squirrel and I shot it for him though both Arthurs and my guns missed fire the first time. We reached the top of Signal Pole Mountain at eleven oclock, as we were coming near the white ledges below, Sparks cornered a hedge-hog which Arthur shot with our pistol, we reached the top of Blood Mountain at a quarter to twelve and began to get spruce limbs together to make a signal home with, at ten minutes to twelve we touched it off and [end of document]
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Writings about Daily Life
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Sketches of Our Home Life, Volume 2
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Nelson, Arthur, Elmer, and Walter
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Transcription by the Goshen Historical Society
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1898
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<p>In March of 1897, Elmer, Arthur, and Walter state that they wrote <em>Sketches of Our Home Life Vol. 2 </em> to “get in some of [their] later adventures.” These adventures include accounts of hunting and camping trips around New Hampshire, descriptions of the Nelsons’ “ideal camera,” “The Three Great Snow Storms of 1898,” and their perspective of the Spanish-American War.</p>
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https://www.ats.amherst.edu/childhood/files/original/11cd6483b13420ecd07db67d8277ae79.pdf
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Sketches of Our Home Life, Volume 1
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Nelson, Hial, Ida, Elmer, Arthur, and Walter
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Transcription by the Goshen Historical Society
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Compiled 1897, from earlier writings
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<p><em>Sketches of Our Home Life, Vol 1 </em>is a detailed account about notable aspects of the Nelson family’s life written by Hial, Ida, Elmer, Arthur, and Walter. This volume includes an opening journal entry by Ida, poetry by Hial, including “The Joys of the Farmers Boy,” “Our Early Play Times” by Walter, “Our Cameras” by Elmer, hunting and camping entries from Arthur and Elmer, as well as other notable happenings of the family’s everyday lives. </p>
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Worcester and Boston Travel Diary
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Nelson, Elmer
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Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
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1900
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<p>The <em>Worcester/Boston Trip</em> consists of original<em> </em>diary entries (eventually copied by the Nelson brothers into <em>Sketches of Our Home Life, Vol. 2) </em>that provide a detailed account of a trip to Worcester and Boston by one of the brothers. The diary entries include details about the boys’ train rides, meeting at the First Baptist Salem Sq., a trip to a YMCA to see their first basketball game, as well as trips to the County Jail and Art Museum with Aunt Sadie.</p>
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https://www.ats.amherst.edu/childhood/files/original/791eb3b63e15124840b0fb5a2cfe404b.pdf
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Ida Farr's Journal 1872 (Prologue by Doris Nelson Newman)
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Newman, Doris Nelson
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Typescript in the Goshen Historical Society
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1998
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<p>Prologue to Ida Farr's 1872 journal written by her granddaughter Doris Nelson Newman. It provides illuminating context and family history, especially about Ida's parents Eleazer Farr and Charity Tandy, and about Ida's own childhood in Philadelphia.</p>
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https://www.ats.amherst.edu/childhood/files/original/47ca967d6432d9ea04e32002e06fe108.pdf
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My Library
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<em>My Library </em>is a school essay written by Elmer Nelson and corrected by his teacher, describing his personal collection of books and his passion for travel and adventure.
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Nelson, Elmer
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Goshen Historical Society
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1899
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Goshen Historical Society
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